Line #31 NightmareFuel/DoctorSleep


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6	* Brad Trevor, the Baseball Boy, is tortured until his vocal cords rupture from screaming and he whispers pleas to be killed. The True Knot doesn't seem to notice, and they keep right on going.
7	** The implication that the True Knot has been kidnapping, torturing, and slaughtering children like this for centuries.
8	* Rose's brief, right-the-fuck-out-of-nowhere transformation while consuming an entire Steam canister. Her eyes become pinholes, her jaw distends to her chest, and her mouth becomes a gaping maw with an inhuman tusk.
9	* The return of the rotting, malevolent spirit of Horace Derwent, who proves powerful enough to survive the destruction of the Overlook. Special mention goes to Derwent's second appearance at the end of the novel, where he kills Silent Sarey.
10	-->'''Derwent:''' [[CallBack Great party,]] [[PreMortemOneLiner isn't it?]]
11	* Dan's nightmare. First, he's five again and Deenie's ghost, appearing as her corpse, warns him away from tangling with Rose. Then he "wakes up" to find Deenie's child ''in the bed with him'' with the right side of his head caved in and brains drying on one cheek. No wonder he decides to get drunk when he wakes up for real.
12	* Dick Halloran's story about Andy, his "black grandfather", a sadistic monster who made Horace Derwent look like a saint. Not only was he a sadist, he was also a pedophile who delighted in making Dick's life a living hell whenever the family visited, but always made sure that anything he did in front of other adults just looked like mean-spirited jokes. It's implied that Dick's parents knew what he was doing in private anyway, but were too afraid of him to speak up. Among other things, he liked to put Dick on his lap and squeeze his crotch until Dick thought he was going to pass out from the pain, and one time when Dick tried to stand up against him and threatened to tell his father, Andy just laughed and put a cigarette out on his bare foot. He also told Dick that he'd go to {{Hell}} if he tried telling anyone else, because "peaching is peaching, wether anyone believes you or not". Even ''dying'' wasn't enough to stop his abuse, as Andy returned as a malevolent ghost, which finally forced Dick to learn how to contain spirits inside his mind.
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17	[[caption-width-right:350:''Hello again, Mrs. Massey.\
18	Can’t say that we’ve missed you...''.]]
19	* Dan is beset on by what looks to be ''all the spirits of the Overlook''. It's just as nightmarish as it sounds.
20	** In context, this moment is even ''worse''. Dan is possessed by ''every single spirit'' and [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything goes lumbering after Abra]], [[LikeFatherLikeSon carrying an axe and ranting incoherently]].
21	** Prior to this, Dan's announcement that he's going to "wake it up." Anyone who saw the Kubrick film knows how creepy the hotel is when it's "awake."
22	** And right before the spirits descend upon him, the twins are FRONT and center amongst them.
23	* The process of becoming a True Knot doesn't come across as pleasant in the slightest. The process makes Snakebite Andi feel like she died in an unpleasant manner, and the craving for Steam pretty much overrides most ethical inhibitions.
24	* [[TheyLookJustLikeEveryoneElse Rose the Hat]]. Each time she appears on screen in the trailer, there's just something ''off'' about her. To say nothing about [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything her behavior]] when she's coming after her victims, in particular a [[WouldHurtAChild little girl]] and Abra. In the film itself, Rose's appearance and mannerisms have an [[OurVampiresAreDifferent artificial feel]] making it seem like you don't need to have much Shining to feel like something is off about her.
25	* The atmosphere when Dan's using his "shine", most notably constantly encountering [[CreepyTwins the Grady Twins]] and his father, who is now [[LegacyCharacter the Bartender]].
26	** Speaking of Jack, there's the ImpliedDeathThreat he gives Dan, regarding Abra.
27	--->'''Jack:''' Just bring her inside, and then, well... You accept the things you cannot change.
28	* When Abra traps Rose in the representation of her own mind, her mental counterpart takes a form with a SlasherSmile and [[EyelessFace no eyes]]. She also manages to make a monster like Rose [[MookHorrorShow fear for her life]]. And that's not even saying ''heavy {{Fingore}}'' when Rose's hand is slammed onto Abra's memory file cabinets. By the time she's back in her body, Rose's hand is a mangled mess.
29	* Bradley's death is arguably ''far'' worse in the movie, with Abra witnessing him being bisected and tortured all while the True Knot's lack of empathy as they take his Shine away.
30	** And it hits worse when you realize that not only is Abra watching Bradley be murdered, ''[[TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou so are we]]'' from her viewpoint.
31	** It was even traumatizing to film, with Creator/RebeccaFerguson admitting that she ''broke down in tears'' when Jacob Tremblay (Bradley) started screaming.
32	** The fact that Bradley, when the True Knot came to kidnap him, did everything he was supposed to do. He refused to get in the van with a stranger, at which point they brought out Andi to force him physically.
33	* The process of cycling out, where the members of the True Knot look more and more emaciated with each breath, crying out in pain as their skin fades to muscle, then to bone, with their eyes glowing a hellish white all the while, before completely evaporating.
34	* Ghost!Halloran's final meeting with Danny before he is unable to return ever again is deeply ominous. He tells Danny that he needs to pay off a debt in his life protecting Abra or the True Knot will torture her for a very long time to drain her life. Even if one doesn't have much shine or a need to pay off a serious life debt, the notion of a minor being tortured would push multiple people to go out to confront the True Knot, to put it mildly. The notion that Danny got off easy as a child encountering the Overlook Hotel rather than the True Knot and dying a traumatic death doesn't help either.
35	* Rose's death. Yes, it's [[CatharsisFactor immensely cathartic]] especially after spending the entire movie being smug, coy, and arrogant over her power and being a step ahead of Dan and Abra...but it's still sickening. After she tries to absorb Dan's shine by inflicting [[{{Squick}} more pain to his injured leg]], Dan lets out ''all'' of the Overlook's spirits. As powerful as Rose is, a gang of steam-starved ghosts are in a league of their own. Loraine Massey makes an unearthly shriek at Rose before she tackles her, ecstatic over the steam she's carrying; the remaining ghosts proceed to [[ZergRush swarm her like animals]], even ''digging their fingers underneath '''her flesh''' while she screams in fear and horror'' before she disintegrates like all her True Knot members. [[OhCrap And then they notice Dan]].
36	** The recurring demonstrations over the course of the final act that the Overlook and the trauma it inflicted on Dan is trying to mold him into an ''exact'' copy of his father. It doesn't just love Jack, it wants ''more'' of him. And when the spirits dig their claws in and get ahold of Dan's body, he starts swinging his axe in exactly the right way, down to the camera panning to keep it onscreen at the expense of what he's swinging it at, the way he yells for and limps after his prey, even just the way he talks when confronted, to have Dan live the nightmare of becoming the monster his father was.
37	** When "Dan" confronts Abra in Room 237, she begins to rip him a new one...and makes it clear she's not calling out Dan, but ''the Hotel''. It's pretty much made clear the Overlook itself took hold of Dan's mind and body and it's ''relishing'' every minute of it.
38	* It's a lowkey moment, but it becomes scarier when you think about it. When Rose faces Abra and Danny in the Overlook's main hall, Jack's typewriter is still on the desk. It's been sitting there for ''40 years'', the whole hotel has! No one ever came back to clear it out, it's a wonder Halloran's body wasn't left to rot out in the hall. No one has even tried looting the place, the entire building is like a time capsule to that one horrible winter in 1980....
39	* After the song "Midnight, the Stars and You" in the end credits, you hear only silence in the second half, with only the sound of wind making as if [[NothingIsScarier you been lonely the whole time and that the music you hear comes from ghosts]].
40	* Dan's one night stand shows up in his bed as a rotting corpse ghost who reveals that nobody found her body when she (presumably) overdosed. She says the tenants in her apartment were used to her son crying, as she was known to often leave him home alone. Slowly she reveals the ghost of her rotting toddler son as well. ''Brr''..
41	* The return to the Overlook. If you didn't know it was coming, you got chills the moment that theme starts playing as Dan and Abra leave the gas station. The camera tracks their car overhead like a recreation of the first movie, and then we see it, massive, dark, and foreboding. As the car pulls up, it is dead quiet. No music. The only sounds are the wind and a ''heartbeat''. Dan goes inside the Hotel to "wake it up", and as he reaches the middle of the lobby, the lights over his head ''start to glow on their own''. Everywhere Dan goes in the building, from the lobby, to the boiler room, to his family's old quarters, the lights turn on of their own accord. It's as if the Hotel is saying, "Welcome home, ''Danny''".
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Context NightmareFuel / DoctorSleep