'Doctor Sleep' review: A duller 'Shining'

Doctor Sleep is a not a Stephen-King-scares-the-pants-off-you kind of movie. It's a Stephen-King-invites-you-to-ponder-the-nature-of-evil kind of movie.

Doctor Sleep, Mike Flanagan’s adaptation of the novel by Stephen King, catches up with Danny Torrance, who as a child was terrorized by demons and his own father at a spooky Rocky Mountain hotel.
 
That was in The Shining, published by King in 1977 and filmed by Stanley Kubrick in a movie released in 1980. The new film, depending on how you look at it, is a sequel, an update, a corrective or a disaster. King was never a fan of Kubrick’s cold, meticulous gothic, which has nonetheless gathered a sturdy cult following. Flanagan, while hewing more closely to