Doctor Sleep

Mike Flanagan accomplished the impossible: he made a sequel to The Shining that honored both Stanley Kubrick's film and Stephen King's novel — two visions that famously contradict each other. Ewan McGregor's adult Danny Torrance is a man drowning his psychic abilities in alcohol, and his confrontation with Rebecca Ferguson's Rose the Hat and the True Knot — psychic vampires who feed on children — builds to a climactic return to the Overlook Hotel that is simultaneously fan service and genuine catharsis. Flanagan recreated the Overlook with painstaking accuracy while telling a story about addiction, recovery, and inherited trauma. The baseball boy scene is one of the most disturbing child deaths in mainstream cinema.