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Movie review: 'The Shining' sequel pays homage to the original 1980 film, but is not
Movie review: 'The Shining' sequel pays homage to the original 1980 film, but is not its equal
11-08-2019 11:55 AM The film, a sequel to Stanley Kubrick’s "The Shining," opens with a series of short curtain raisers, including a flashback to the Colorado setting of that 1980 horror classic, with a small boy riding a plastic tricycle through the mountain inn’s iconically carpeted hallways. Inspired as much by Kubrick’s revisionist film as by either of Stephen King’s books -- 1977’s "The Shining" and its sequel, 2013’s "Doctor Sleep" -- this new story by horror wunderkind Mike Flanagan ("The Haunting of Hill House") returns to the Overlook in ways both literal and figurative. More... |
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