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The Hello, Sidney Podcast

Episode 43: The Shining (1980) and Doctor Sleep (2019)

The Hello, Sidney Podcast

Sidney

Tv & Film

5828 Ratings

🗓️ 11 September 2024

⏱️ 187 minutes

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Summary

This week, Sidney breaks down The Shining (1980) and Doctor Sleep (2019) and how they both compare and differ from the books, and how Mike Flanagan managed to pull off a perfect sequel of both The Shining book and movie with his adaptation of Doctor Sleep, giving Stephen King the ending he deserved. We will also discuss some of the many theories behind The Shining and some Easter eggs that are hiding in Doctor Sleep.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello? Hello, Sydney. What is up, you spooky bitches? We are back on this fine Wednesday with another episode of the Hello Sydney podcast, a podcast for horror lovers where we discuss any and all things horror. And it's me,

0:21.2

your host, Sydney. What's everybody been up to? What's going on? Happy Wednesday. We're

0:25.6

halfway through the week. I'm filming this on Tuesday, but Wednesday will officially mark one

0:30.5

week out from going to Texas to meet all of my horror talk friends and go to Fantastic Fest and

0:35.2

possibly meet Mike fucking Flanagan and Stephen fucking King and all of my lords and saviors. And I don't know what I'm going to do

0:41.2

with myself. In honor of that, not to like jump in already, but today's episode honestly is in

0:46.2

honor of the King Flanagan partnership collaboration that we have going on here because we're

0:52.4

talking The Shining and we're talking Dr. Sleep

0:54.7

Today, baby.

0:55.6

Flanagan just adapted yet another Stephen King novella, which is called The Life of Chuck.

1:00.6

And from what I've heard, this movie is going to be phenomenal.

1:03.9

A couple of my friends, Seth and Gigi, that have interviewed Flanagan before, which like,

1:07.6

I don't know how the fuck they managed to get through that.

1:10.5

They said that,

1:11.6

I believe that they said that he said that this was his favorite project that he's worked on,

1:16.7

was Life of Chuck. And we believe that this might be one of the secret screenings at Fantastic

1:20.7

Fest, meaning that Stephen King very well might fucking show up. Mike Flanagan is likely already

1:25.5

going to be there because they're premiering VHS beyond, which he and Kate Siegel did segments for. My friends are so fucking cool, guys.

1:32.5

Like, Gigi and Seth are like going to be interviewing him. Chuck is going to be like interviewing

1:36.7

people. He put in to interview Halliberry. And meanwhile, I'm just going to be standing in a corner fucking crying. Like, I'm so not chill. I don't know how they do it.

1:44.4

I don't know.

1:44.9

Anyway, I don't want to talk too long at the beginning because this is going to be

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