10 Best Horror Movies Of 2019
2. Doctor Sleep
If you'd have said a sequel to The Shining was coming in 2019, many would have laughed straight in your face. A sequel to one of the most lasting, poignant, seminal horror movies that has ever graced cinema screens might sound like impossible work destined to fail - but Doctor Sleep didn't get that memo.
Director Mike Flanagan takes all the trappings of the original movie and does them all over again with due diligence and respect, making the return to the Overlook Hotel an actual spine-chilling pillar of excitement rather than an eye-rollingly weak excuse to cash in on a popular name.
Based on King's novel of the same name, Flanagan breathes life into a world that sees a group of vampire-like people feeding on 'shine' - the magical mental ability Danny Torrence used to save him and his mother from the evil Overlook - who target the exceptionally gifted Abra. Teaming up with adult Torrence, the two come together to attempt to overcome the traumas of both past and present, and its done with painstaking attention to detail at every corner.
It's not necessarily a terrifying horror movie, but it is one that touches all the right spots with warm sentimentality and bold new turns in narrative to create an exceptional experience all round. It deserves all the love that genre die-hards can offer.