Easily this year’s best horror movie (in my own personal opinion, as well as Brad’s), Mike Flanagan‘s Doctor Sleep is headed home next year with an extended Director’s Cut.
This new cut of the film is 3-hours long (180-minutes), compared to the 152-minute theatrical cut. Yup, that means just under 30 minutes of footage we haven’t yet seen!
The extended cut releases digitally (4K streaming) on 1/21 and on Blu-ray (with 4K UHD Theatrical Cut) on 2/4.
Doctor Sleep, an adaptation of Stephen King’s same-titled novel as well as a sequel to Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining, scared up $71 million at the worldwide box office this year.
Ewan McGregor leads the cast as an adult Danny Torrance, with Rebecca Ferguson as Rose the Hat, Kyliegh Curran as Abra Stone, and Alex Essoe as Wendy Torrance.
In Doctor Sleep, still irrevocably scarred by the trauma he endured as a child at the Overlook, Dan Torrance has fought to find some semblance of peace. But that peace is shattered when he encounters Abra, a courageous teenager with her own powerful extrasensory gift, known as the “shine.” Instinctively recognizing that Dan shares her power, Abra has sought him out, desperate for his help against the merciless Rose the Hat and her followers, The True Knot, who feed off the shine of innocents in their quest for immortality.
Forming an unlikely alliance, Dan and Abra engage in a brutal life-or-death battle with Rose. Abra’s innocence and fearless embrace of her shine compel Dan to call upon his own powers as never before—at once facing his fears and reawakening the ghosts of the past.
