Doctor Sleep Trailer Breakdown: 10 Things You Need To See
5. The True Knot
From Redrum, an element closely tied to the Kubick side of the Shining gene pool, we swing all the way back to the True Knot gang, a fantastical story element that is exclusively from King.
The narrative of King’s novel of Doctor Sleep revolves pretty much exclusively around Danny attempting to keep the young shiner Abra safe from the True Knot gang, an antagonistic gang of psychopaths, all with varying degrees of abilities to shine. The leader of the True Knot gang is Rose, whose whole M.O. is to feed on the “steam” (read as: life force and powers) of young shiners.
And the trailer pretty much confirms that, yep, all of this is remaining the same. The ever-talented Rebecca Ferguson is playing Rose and she manages to convey this spine-tingling aura of creepiness in just one expression, so I’d hate to see what she’s going to do with the whole film.
We get glimpses of the entire True Knot gang and there’s even a shot of them feeding on a young girl’s “steam”, so expect these nasty freaks to terrorize the cinematic incarnations of Danny and Abra just the same.