Warning: SPOILERS for Doctor Sleep are in play. If you’re not caught up with the second chapter of The Shining story, we suggest you leave this room and wait somewhere safe from spoilers before you open the door. Might we suggest The Gold Room? There’s a killer drink special, if you happen to know the bartender.

In writer/director Mike Flanagan’s hotly anticipated Doctor Sleep, the second chapter in author Stephen King’s saga beginning with The Shining, there’s a deep exploration into themes that both the book and movies in that universe have reveled in for decades. Special abilities of the mind, as well as the ties that bind us to both family and our past histories, come to life in a story that works in both King’s novels and the film universe connected to the 1980 film by Stanley Kubrick.