...Ferguson’s career-best work to date. She walks away with the film as a presence that’s somehow both captivating and terrifying.

Flanagan takes visual and narrative cues from the Kubrick film and both of King's books, then fuses them into something as unique and powerful as his version of 'The Haunting of Hill House'.

It’s King’s floorplan, but with Kubrick’s furniture.

Flanagan, as ever, favours character and slow-burn storytelling over cheap shocks, and cleaves closely to King’s spiritual sequel until Kubrick’s Overlook inevitably comes into play.

...a spirited rendition of Stephen King’s follow-up novel.