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The 3-Hour Director’s Cut of Mike Flanagan’s ‘Doctor Sleep’ is Now Streaming on HBO Max
This year kicked off with the release of Mike Flanagan‘s Director’s Cut of last year’s Doctor Sleep on home video and streaming, and that extended cut is now available through HBO Max!
The Director’s 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 not seen in theaters.
“[Warner Bros] really let us do this right – it’s a finished, complete, fully polished new cut of the movie,” Flanagan explained to Collider late last year. “There is new material throughout the whole film. Some of it is brand new stuff that was never included in the theatrical cut, and there’s also a handful of extended (or altered) scenes as well.”
He continued, “There are some big new scenes, for sure. I don’t want to spoil any of that, but I can say that there is new material throughout (including in the final act at the Overlook). Some of my favorite stuff involved Young Danny and Wendy (there’s some terrific material with Alex Essoe that I’m thrilled is restored here), and will be familiar to fans of the book. There’s also a fair amount of new stuff involving young Abra in the film’s first act, learning about her shine, and how it affects her parents.”
“And there are some surprises I definitely won’t spoil here.”
In Flanagan’s own words, the “Director’s Cut” presents a “more literary” version of the film, with an entirely different structure; this cut breaks the film up into chapters, like a novel.
You can stream both the Theatrical Cut and the Director’s Cut via HBO Max.
DOCTOR SLEEP is now available on @hbomax, they’ve got the both the theatrical cut and the Director’s Cut. Hope you enjoy! #doctorsleep #HBOMax
— Mike Flanagan (@flanaganfilm) June 28, 2020
After scaring up a strong theatrical run, Oddity director Damian McCarthy’s Hokum heads home to Digital this week.
Settle in for a spooky supernatural chiller as Hokum arrives on all Digital platforms to rent or own beginning June 2, followed by a Blu-ray/4K Ultra HD Combo and DVD release on August 11, 2026.
Adam Scott (“Severance”) stars in Hokum as reclusive novelist Ohm Bauman. When he retreats to a remote Irish inn to scatter his parents’ ashes, the staff’s tales of an ancient witch haunting the honeymoon suite take hold of his mind. Disturbing visions and a shocking disappearance draw Ohm into a nightmarish confrontation with the darkest corners of his past.
Peter Coonan (“The Alienist: Angel of Darkness”), David Wilmot (“Station Eleven”), Florence Ordesh (“Departure”), Michael Patric (“Frontier”), Will O’Connell (“Game of Thrones”), Brendan Conroy (“Bodkin”), and Austin Amelio (“The Walking Dead”) also star.
Get a peek at the upcoming physical media release below, including a few special features.
Spooky Pictures’ Roy Lee (Weapons) & Steven Schneider (Insidious) produce alongside Image Nation’s Derek Dauchy (Late Night with the Devil), Tailored Film’s Ruth Treacy, Julianne Forde, & Mairtín de Barra, and Cweature Features’ Ken Kao & Josh Rosenbaum.
I wrote in my review for Bloody Disgusting, “A quaint Irish hotel with a deeply haunted history awaits an American writer in McCarthy’s third outing, continuing his streak for folkloric tales of supernatural karma and spine-tingling terror with a dark sense of humor.”
What’s next from Damian McCarthy? He’s currently writing a haunted house movie, but recent comments suggest he may be moving into other genres beyond that upcoming project.
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