Funny, my brief American accent is getting better reviews on here than the movie itself. And not one person has mentioned that Danny found his fire engine at 23:29!

The Astral Projection scene with Rose the Hat was one of the best scenes visually.

It's ironic that Stephen King's Dr. Sleep is being haunted by Kubrick's Shining

I could listen to Rob Ager talk about The Shining for like 8 hours straight.

Re: Abra being related to Halloran. In the book, it's revealed she's related to Danny. When Jack was teaching he had an affair with a woman. She gave birth to an illegitimate daughter he never knew about; Danny's half-sister. That half-sister is Abra's mother; Danny finds out he's Abra's uncle. This kind of confirms the theory that Jack could shine too but didn't know/believe it, it's passed down genetically (same way Dick & his grandmother had it). Danny doesn't die in the novel and remains part of Abra's life, when she's a teen he tells her the family's problem with alcoholism and abuse, convincing her to avoid drinking and to keep her anger in control in order to break the cycle.

In my mind, any inconsistencies from the recreated scenes from "The Shining" can be explained by the fact that Danny's memories are understandably slightly different from any other representation of the hotel, his parents, etc.

The Jack Nicholson look alike was played by Henry Thomas who was the boy in E.T.

There’s a bottle of Jack Daniels in the background ! Jack and Danny !

"Let's pretend I haven't seen Kubrick's movie of The Shining..."  ...Not possible for me.

"Energy vampires", there as so many people like that.

3:05 Hello skull, goodbye water
12:02 Hello warthog, goodbye skull
14:33 Hello girls and 2nd jack, goodbye warthog
23:12 Hello firetruck, double jack and shot glass
27:23 Hello wooden mask, twin jacks and ball
30:13 Hello wooden bust, ball switch, goodbye shot glass

Although it's all done at 9:22

I could've sworn that the scene where Danny gets the job offer from the doctor was modeled after Ullman's office. That harsh light from the window behind the doctor was unmistakable.

9:50 That guy is the kid who played Eliot in ET! To me it felt like it wasn't 100% Jack, it was the Shadow of what was left of him after he was consumed by the hotel...The Hotel merged him with Lloyd.

A common misconception that I keep seeing people repeating is that while yes, Kubrick did keep supernatural elements vague to some degree for most of the movie, he 100% meant for it to be supernatural and the hotel was haunted. He said in an interview once that the ending where you see Jack's picture was meant to show that.

As I recall, Stephen King wrote the book Doctor Sleep as a sequel to His book The Shining, and then the film came out and they attempted to meld the two together because the Kubrick version is the one people know. If you're going to make a sequel movie, you tend to work with the movie people will know first.

I think the idea behind Jack being so different is that it wasn't really Jack anymore. Once he died his essence belonged to the hotel, and he became another ghostly staff member. Here his spirit was repurposed as Lloyd the bartender, and not the same axe welding nut we all know and love.

They put the actor who played Danny in Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining at the baseball game, I thought that was pretty cool

the notification alone blew my socks off

Could you do a analysis of your own videos. I suspect hidden themes

Henry Thomas from ET played Jack Torrence.  I thought it worked because HT is such an iconic symbol of innocence and youth and the 80's for me.  Seeing him as Jack was the embodiment of corruption - which is the central theme of Doctor Sleep - fighting the urge to surrender to your darkness and the corruption of youth.