Director Stanley Kubrick's one and only foray into the horror genre - The Shining - was completely unnerving for me. And his cold and calculated (to the point of seeming impersonal) handling of Stephen King's book has inspired a sequel almost four decades later.
Kubrick had made drastic changes from the book in his script, which didn't please King (not that Kubrick cared, I reckon). This fact alone makes director Mike Flanagan's handling of the topic worthy of praise. Flanagan somehow manages to use, as source material, the sequel book (also named Doctor Sleep) that clashes with a....