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wahbegan · 6 years ago

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Doctor Sleep Trailer

Yeah i’m doing one of these i guess i keep looking for one on youtube that actually gets everything and i can’t find one and it’s pissing me off so under a read more as per usual because these can get wordy

So first thing’s first Dan and Abra’s psychic link appears to be visualized via chalk writings appearing on the wall which is pretty inspired better than like echoey voice-over in their head kind of thing. Also at one point it looks like they have a conversation where it cuts back and forth between them in different locations a la Rey and Kylo in The Last Jedi but the trailer also might just be cut like that

Oh yeah Dan’s got scrubs too so it looks like they’re keeping his whole “works in a hospice and psychically helps people die” thing intact i mean i...i woooould fucking hope they do since it’s what the title of the damn book is based on but anyway it’s nice to see some kind of confirmation

So this movie, according to all sources, is attempting to really toe the line, kind of walking a tightrope between being faithful to King’s story while retaining enough visual callbacks to the Kubrick film that people will associate it with that universe, and i think the MURDER written on the wall is step one of that. But more on that a bit later

So the blonde girl on the beach we know from cast listings i thought it was weird because she seemed too old to be The True Knot’s prey and Rose the Hat seemed to be breathing steam onto her and none of the other members were partaking so i thought it was weird BUT yeah i checked the cast listing and the blonde actor is actually playing Snakebite Andi, so what we’re seeing on the beach here is i assume her induction into The True Knot.

Speaking of which, The True Knot members i know we’re seeing based on cast listings and pausing the trailer over and over again are, from left to right on the beach: Apron Annie (she’s the one in the blue and red in the woods as well), Unknown, Crow Daddy, Grampa Flick, Silent Sarey, Barry just Barry according to the cast listing lmao probably a good call, and another Unknown. It seems those are the only seven well plus Rose and Snakebite so i guess those are the nine we’re getting, cause the same seven are seen in the background of the woods, just in a different order (Unknown, Sarey, Crow, Flick, Annie, Unknown, Barry)

That scene of them getting a little girl by the water while she picks flowers I assume is a Frankenstein reference btw and looks real creepy i like it. Seems to be before Snakebite Andi’s induction into the group

Okay so yeah they clearly re-shot bits from The Shining and Dan has ghosts that survived in lockboxes in his head and has The Overlook as a safe place but this doesn’t seem like any of that, it just seems like pure flashback

This kid getting in the van in the cornfields I believe is “the baseball boy”, who we get a....just lovely, lovely scene of The True Knot feeding on him it’s fucking grotesque

Couple quick shots, I’m not sure what he’s digging for, but he’s probably trying to find something in the remains of The Overlook, i don’t know. It could be a mindscape, actually, oooohhh maybe he’s unearthing his mental lockboxes shut up it could be

Number one, this is a very Mike Flanagan ghost Dan is looking at in this shot number two i think it....might supposed to be his mom? Wendy? I DON’T KNOW DON’T JUMP DOWN MY THROAT. Wait hold on maybe it’s not a ghost at all maybe it’s you know that thing where he sees flies on someone before they die there is a maggot on her....i think it’s a ghost though. And possibly his mom.

Yeah that looks like Rose the Hat’s hand tryna do some shady shit to Abra i like how they’re visualizing the psychic fuckery in this movie it’s really an important thing to nail and I feel like they’re doing it well

Other shots i don’t have much to say about yeah the twins, looks like somebody from The True Knot going to drug that girl in the woods (Violet McGraw from THoHH, by the way!) Except I just checked again and none of them are dressed like that so it must be a different scene, uhh oh Abra using The Shining on her dad for some reason, probably to show him something, Rose is pissed i REALLY hope they have her go full pinprick eyes massive weird jaw but given Mike Flanagan’s penchant for having people unhinge their jaws in a spooky way i’m sure they will

Okay THIS part i do have something to say about when Dan slides towards the wall, you can’t really see if you pause cause it’s always blurry, but if you read around him and below MURDER it says BASEBALL BOY so here’s the tightrope i was talking about earlier i think instead of DANDANDAN THEY’RE KILLING THE BASEBALL BOY the message he’s gonna get from Abra is gonna be MURDER BASEBALL BOY and then he’s gonna slide into like witnessing The True Knot torturing him to death and feeding off of him. Very cool visualization, keeps the essence of the scene intact, has that nice MURDER reflecting REDRUM in the mirror callback, so fans of the Kubrick movie will be happy. I think it’s a good compromise. Although THEY’RE KILLING THE BASEBALL BOY definitely has a creepier ring to it than just MURDER BASEBALL BOY but i nitpick

Given that The Overlook’s no longer standing, this has gotta be a mental projection Dan’s in, and i mean he does has a safe place in his mind based on The Overlook, but i don’t know why it’d be all dirty and have the hacked up door and REDRUM if it was that. If you want my guess, they wanted a scene like this in here for not only a bit of fan service but also to visualize...Mike Flanagan with Oculus and The Haunting of Hill House both has indicated that he has a keen interest in repeating cycles of mental illness in families, which is a heavy theme in this book. I mean Dan struggling with anger and alcoholism and not being Jack is y’know like most of the point of the book, and I think as well as just shameless fanservice, him seeing the old hotel room and putting his face through the hole his father hacked in the door is supposed to be a visual representation of the cycle and how he’s trying to break it

Anyway that’s about all i got but it should be enough you greedy fucks

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