Danny Torrance goes back to the Overlook Hotel in Doctor Sleep trailer ~ USA Latest Games

A grown-up Danny Torrance (Ewan McGregor) must face the ghosts of his childhood to defeat a new evil in Doctor Sleep.

Fans of the 1980 film The Shining will be going back to the Overlook Hotel with a grown Danny Torrance in Doctor Sleep, the big-screen adaptation of Stephen King's bestselling novel. It's written and directed by Mike Flanagan, who also wrote and directed last year's stunning adaptation of The Haunting of Hill House, so I have high hopes for what he's done with Doctor Sleep.

Doctor Sleep explores what happened to young Danny Torrance as he grew into adulthood after the horrifying events of The Shining. King published The Shining in 1977, and it became his first hardback bestseller. In the 2013 follow-up novel, a grown-up Danny struggles to recover from the psychological trauma he experienced at the Overlook Hotel. He has learned to contain the ghosts in a mental "lockbox" but still spends years as an alcoholic, just like his father—the drinking suppresses the shining—wandering from town to town.

Now in his 40s, Dan finally gets sober and settles in a New Hampshire town called Frazier. He gets a job at a hospice, where he uses his psychic gift to comfort dying patients, earning him the moniker Doctor Sleep. Dan also forms a psychic connection with a young girl, Abra Stone, whose psychic powers are even stronger than his own. When she witnesses the murder of a boy by members of a cult of psychic vampires called the True Knot, she turns to Dan for help. The True Knot members feed off "steam," a psychic essence that comes from people with the shining who die in pain—a lot of pain, and the longer the torture lasts, the better the steam. The True Knot targets Abra, believing they can torture her indefinitely to give them a steady supply. It's up to Dan to protect her.

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