Doctor Sleep by Stephen King5/28/2023 ![]() ![]() Dan does reunite with the spirit of his father in the movie, but this isn’t the Jack Torrance we know from The Shining. Not only is the Overlook Hotel still standing in this version of Doctor Sleep - following up on the ending of Kubrick’s movie - but Jack is anything but a friendly ghost in the final act. ![]() Obviously, Mike Flanagan’s movie takes a few liberties with this ending. Read More: Every Stephen King Movie and TV Series in Development ![]() Dan and Abra take on Rose in a big psychic battle, and are ultimately able to defeat and kill her with the help of none other than Jack Torrance, now somehow sort of a benevolent ghost… ![]() Dan unleashes the diseased “steam” of Concetta Reynolds, Abra’s great-grandmother, on the members of the True Knot, killing most of them, while the spirit of dead Overlook owner Horace Derwent finishes off Rose’s last acolyte, Silent Sarey (who is long dead in the movie by this point). They confront Rose and the remaining members of her True Knot. The Doctor Sleep novel features a similar ending that sees Dan, Abra, and Billy (still alive in the book) drive down to the abandoned site where the Overlook once stood (it blew up at the end of The Shining novel). ![]()
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