Film & TV / NewsFilm & TV / NewsWatch the creepy new trailer for The Shining sequelMike Flanagan’s Doctor Sleep is set 40 years after the originalShareLink copied ✔️September 10, 2019September 10, 2019TextGünseli Yalcinkaya Here’s Johnny! The final trailer for the sequel to Stanley Kubrick’s 1980 psychological horror, The Shining, has dropped ahead of its November release date. Called Doctor Sleep, the Mike Flanagan-directed film is an adaption of Stephen King’s 2013 novel of the same name, and takes place 40 years after the events of The Shining. It follows Danny Torrance (played by Ewan McGregor) as a grown-up version of the creepy Redrum kid from the original film, and the son of Jack Nicholson’s character, who is driven to madness by supernatural happenings at the Overlook Hotel. Returning to the scene of his trauma, Danny attempts to “find some semblance of peace” but comes across Abra, a young girl with psychic abilities, much like Danny’s in the original. While the sequel definitely has similar visual cues to Kubrick’s The Shining (disclaimer: the creepy twins are still there), Flanagan maintains that Doctor Sleep is its “own thing”. He says: “The heart and soul of the movie, and the reason we wanted to make it at all, was really about this new story between Dan and Abra.” Based on Stephen King’s 1977 novel, The Shining, tells the story of Jack Torrance, a winter caretaker at the isolated Overlook Hotel in Colarado, in an attempt to cure his writer’s block. He moves in with his wife, Wendy, and his son, Danny, who begins to experience psychic premonitions. In a claustrophobic feat of hysteria, Jack begins to discover the hotel’s dark secrets and starts unravelling into a homicidal maniac. Watch the trailer for Doctor Sleep below. Escape the algorithm! Get The DropEmail address SIGN UP Get must-see stories direct to your inbox every weekday. Privacy policy Thank you. You have been subscribed Privacy policy Expand your creative community and connect with 15,000 creatives from around the world.READ MORE7 generation-defining moments from Girls Euphoria season 3 is a celebration of female degradation Nike Airmaxxing with singer-songwriter Simone RuthThis iPhone-shot doc exposes the ugliness of authoritarianism7 things to watch from trans film festival TITE10 films we’re excited to see at Cannes Film Festival 2026Exit8: A must-see Japanese horror about an endless commute ‘It’s just the aesthetic’: The Drama and the allure of violent subculturesWhat went down at our 25th anniversary screening of AmélieHow Daniel Blumberg turned water, wind and silence into a film scoreDazed x MUBI Cinema Club’s season finale: Father Mother Sister Brother6LILITH6: Inside the witchy femme mall cult of Forbidden FruitsEscape the algorithm! Get The DropEmail address SIGN UP Get must-see stories direct to your inbox every weekday. Privacy policy Thank you. You have been subscribed Privacy policy