DOCTOR SLEEP (2019) *REACTION* FIRST TIME WATCHING THE DIRECTOR'S CUT!
Added 2025-12-31 12:51:47 +0000 UTCWe’re checking back in to The Shining franchise with a first-time watch of DOCTOR SLEEP: THE DIRECTOR'S CUT, a Mike Flanagan masterpiece that left us truly haunted. We’re discussing iconic Flowers with Hats™, which performance deserves a retroactive Oscar nomination, and—most importantly—did Crow Daddy name himself? All this and more in this reaction to a film that that left us truly, utterly, genuinely gobsmacked 🪓❄️🩸
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It's crazy to think this movie came out 7 years ago. I loved y'all's reaction and I teared up at the end. Is it wrong that I wanted Rose to suffer more? On a superficial note, Ewan is ridiculously pretty look at.
Chad Moore
2026-01-15 09:38:09 +0000 UTCI’d love to see you react to Troop Beverly Hills!!
Madison Escarziga
2026-01-14 03:56:47 +0000 UTCit's on our list for sure!
Petty Pumpkins
2026-01-05 17:53:33 +0000 UTCThis was my first time seeing this, so thank you!! It was so good! I would love to see you both watch and react to Mike Flanagans Midnight Mass!!
Kristin Weiss
2026-01-05 03:09:00 +0000 UTCThinking about it now, Abra’s narrative arch is really reminiscent of Jean Grey’s
Alexandre 🇫🇷🐉
2026-01-04 13:59:55 +0000 UTCPlease please please react to Life (2017) for more REBECCAAAAAAAA ❤️🔥✨❤️🔥
Alexandre 🇫🇷🐉
2026-01-02 22:34:08 +0000 UTCThe only note I have for this movie would be : why didn’t they cast Mia Goth to play Shelley Duval ?!?! No shade to Alex Essoe, she did a great job, but Goth looks like a reincarnation of Shelley without even trying 😍😍
Alexandre 🇫🇷🐉
2026-01-02 22:17:52 +0000 UTCDan's middle name is Anthony aka Tony. So Chey's right; iit's always just been Dan.
Leigh Harrison
2026-01-02 20:34:12 +0000 UTCAll “Rebecca’s” are magical 😉
Rebecca Hopkins
2026-01-02 08:45:53 +0000 UTCAnother Flanagan rec would be Midnight Mass (please! it's so good!). It looks like the only other movies of his you haven't reacted to are Absentia and Before I Wake (along with The Life of Chuck which I remember Wes doing on Letterboxd so it wouldn't be new to you). I've seen them both. For early films they are good and show his potential as a director but I would not put them in the same league as his other stuff. But if you want to be completionists they are not bad films at all. 😃
Lavender Violet
2026-01-02 01:14:17 +0000 UTCWow it seems like forever since I've watched you guys. I was hospitalized and couldn't use my phone. I loved this reaction especially to the "score" from the opening of the shining I remember that gave me chills so much when I saw this and I started clapping lol. The shining is my favorite film so... yeah I was like omfg.
Jeremy Montanez
2026-01-01 10:22:15 +0000 UTCHe voiced a sexy vampire in castlevania nocturne
The Movie Buff
2026-01-01 08:58:02 +0000 UTCAlso in the book Snakebite Andi is a lesbian she was harmed at a young age and as you saw takes revenge on creeps her own way using her “shine” and in her initiation into the True Knot she nearly faded into nothing but Rose promised her that she would sleep with her if she survived it and low and behold she did and they slept together for the first and last time because rose loves her Crow Daddy
The Movie Buff
2026-01-01 08:57:43 +0000 UTCmidnight mass
Zuhl
2026-01-01 04:31:28 +0000 UTCThis movie is one of my favorite Stephen King movies! I really enjoy The Shining, too. I had a very hard time with the book The Shining, it dealt SO HEAVILY with the monster that the alcohol created and seeing as how my mom was an undiagnosed bipolar, an alcoholic, and a diagnosed narcissist. She was a monster and the drink always made it worse. So I couldn't finish The Shining book, it was too scary, too familiar.
Violet
2026-01-01 01:03:15 +0000 UTCI read the book when it first came out and really enjoyed it! I think Mike Flannigan did a great job of portraying the book while showing love for the movie fans. Mike Flannigan top request: Midnight Mass Stephen King top request: Maximum Overdrive it's hilariously so bad it's great
Robin Beatch
2026-01-01 00:19:32 +0000 UTC🖤Crow Daddy🖤 He's obviously extremely evil but my goodness is he an attractive man. His face, that voice, the smoothness, oof... 👁🫦👁
Maddie
2025-12-31 23:34:40 +0000 UTCThat's creepy, I want to read the book now! The book version of The Shining scared me soooo much!
Maddie
2025-12-31 23:29:38 +0000 UTCI love that this channel does Spooky and horror year round! I really hope y'all do The Last Exorcism, eventually. It's the single best found footage movie I've ever seen and the premise is so original! That combined with the practical effects and the fact that it doesn't use tons and tons of CGI, it just feels SO REAL. I honestly can't say enough positive things about it!
Violet
2025-12-31 22:28:25 +0000 UTCI vote for "A Perfect Marriage" and "Big Driver" - they were both novellas from his book "Full Dark, No Stars" which was excellent. "A Good Marriage" was loosely based on the "BTK Killer" Dennis Rader.
Stephanie Ella
2025-12-31 20:39:54 +0000 UTCAAAAH!!! NO WAY!!! I'm so excited for this!
Violet
2025-12-31 20:19:56 +0000 UTCI think the conclusion we came to is she isn't dead when he leaves her but does die soon after!
Petty Pumpkins
2025-12-31 18:19:48 +0000 UTCI very recently watched this and didn’t clock that the naked lady in the bed was dead.. 🤔
Stephanie Ella
2025-12-31 17:45:14 +0000 UTCwe have! we watched it (and bly manor) when they first came out before our channel existed. We probably will do a rewatch someday though once we get through the other Mike Flanagan projects we haven't seen ❤️
Petty Pumpkins
2025-12-31 17:34:34 +0000 UTCso glad you guys finally done this, been waiting since your shining commentary
Corpius
2025-12-31 17:07:56 +0000 UTCHave u guys seen haunting of hill house?? Its a short horror series u should def react. Violets also in it
cooki3t00sh0rt
2025-12-31 17:07:18 +0000 UTCyes! we definitely going to watch them haha we didn't forget! stay tuned 👀❤️
Petty Pumpkins
2025-12-31 13:52:43 +0000 UTCI havent seen this. im excited to watch this later. sidenote, do you plan on watching red dragon and hannibal? I just dont want yall to forget. 😭
fkajackiebrown
2025-12-31 13:01:15 +0000 UTCThe book is quite dark as well when rose eats steam her jaw detached longer and she has a discolored tooth similar to how a walrus tooth looks like.
The Movie Buff
2025-12-31 12:56:07 +0000 UTC
