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Just a few hours ago a trailer was officially dropped for the sequel to one of the world’s
most iconic horror films of all times.
Remember the movie that haunted everyone’s dreams back in 1980: The Shining?
Well, a sequel to the movie is finally on its way and people are losing their minds.
I’m going to talk about the trailer with you guys in today’s video: Doctor Sleep
Trailer Explained.
Let’s get started.
The movie was directed by Mike Flanagan who is known for his horror films and TV shows,
he recently created the hit TV show on Netlfix: The Haunting of Hill House.
His work never disappoints so we know that we’re in for a real treat with this sequel
called Doctor Sleep.
Doctor Sleep is a 2013 horror novel written by the one and only Stephen King.
How could we forget the movie that made riding a red bicycle so terrifying?
In the novel, following all the events of The Shining, Danny (who was the young boy
riding the bike, Jack Torrences son) remains psychologically traumatized, how could he
not be.
Angry ghosts from the famous Overlook Hotel eventually find him.
The adult Dan takes on his father’s legacy of anger and alcoholism but eventually finds
an AA community and gives up drinking.
He settles in a New Hampshire town where he works in a hospice, by using his psychic abilities
to provide comfort to people who are dying.
This is how he earns his title of Doctor Sleep.
Straight out of the gate the trailer shows us that Danny is communicating with someone
else, which means they also have the Shining abilities that he possesses.
The Shining is a fusion of telepathy and clairvoyance.
Being able to shine means being able to communicate with others using the mind; it gives them
the ability to see things that have happened in the past or will happen in the future.
The words we see are MORNING and SCHOOL, and they have smiley faces written in the O’s
which hints that it might be a child he is communicating with.
We see them communicating through a chalkboard which ends up exploding and leaves the word
Redrum written on it.
Redrum is the word Danny wrote in the first movie which is MURDER spelt backwards.
This was just one of many callbacks that the trailer shows us in connection to the first
movie.
Danny then hears a voice in his head telling him to just talk to the kid, which I’m assuming
is the kid he’s been communicating with.
Not saying this is true, but the trailer gives off that impression as we see Danny talking
to a young girl immediately afterwards.
The girl explains that she’s magic, and says she knows HE has the same abilities too.
He begins to explain his abilities to the girl saying he’s been to the Dark Place
where he met only a few people that are like them, but they died.
He goes on to explain his childhood, which throws us back to scenes from the original
movie of little Danny riding his red bicycle down the hotel hallway.
We even get a 2 second snippet of seeing the famous bathtub lady from The Shining; how
could anyone forget about the bathtub lady.
It’s only fair she’s brought back to haunt our dreams all over again.
Danny then says to the little girl that it’s not magic he has, he’s always called his
abilities The Shining.
That’s when shit hits the fan.
The trailer swaps back in forth through flashbacks from the first movie, to new scenes from the
sequel.
We get introduced to some new characters, which will be filling in spots from the novel,
we can assume.
By the looks of it, if it follows the novels storyline, the young girl and Danny begin
to explore and share their abilities while trying to save her life from a cult known
as The True Knot.
The cult is known in the novel to prey on children with powers so they can remain immortal.
The details of the new plot are hard to piece together as there isn’t much dialogue just
a bunch of frames flashing between throwbacks.
We see the ultimate throwback as Danny returns to the Overlook Hotel and we begin to see
the hotel as it was left off in the first movie.
We even see the iconic door with the hole in it, you know, the one where his dad Jack
Torrence axed down to try and kill his mother who was hiding inside.
The door is the exact same, with the same axed hole and we can see the word Redrum carved
into it.
Probably the most chilling part of this trailer is when Danny walks up to the door and sticks
his head in the hole, the exact same way Jack Torrence did when he said the famous line:
Here’s Jonny!
It can’t help but get your mind racing wondering if he’s going to repeat similar events that
his dad did.
We’re going to have to wait and see what happens until the movie comes out later this
year on November 8th.
In the meantime, let me know down in the comments what you got out of this trailer and if you’re
as excited as I am for it come out.
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