But when he's recruited by Abra to protect her from the True Knot, Dan becomes more tempted than ever to drink again. Almost a decade later, Dan has been successfully able to avoid alcohol. Slowly, Dan joins Alcoholics Anonymous in an attempt to try and learn to control his addiction. In the years since Jack's death, Dan Torrance has grown into an alcoholic in his own right, mainly to try and suppress the abilities that his connection with the Shining bring into the real world. Instead, he ends up freezing to death and being buried underneath snow and ice. Danny is able to escape the maze and reunite with his mother, while Jack never escapes the maze. But a clever trick by Danny lets him sneak away and lure Jack even further into the maze.

Jack follows Danny and Wendy across the hotel grounds, eventually chasing Danny into the hotel's hedge maze. Wendy and Danny proved clever enough to avoid his wrath, although Jack manages to catch chef Dick Hollarann (who'd come back to the Hotel to help Danny) by surprise and kill him. Jack became increasingly unstable the longer he remained in the hotel and was eventually was convinced by the spirits to turn on his family and try to kill them. RELATED: Doctor Sleep Is a Visually Stunning Love Letter to The Shining

Suddenly, he's greeted by the ghostly Lloyd the bartender, who pours him a drink. After Wendy accuses Jack of hurting Danny, he ends up at the empty hotel bar, where he jokingly offers to sell his soul for a single drink. A mix of the isolation and the spirits that haunt the hotel quickly prove to be too much for Jack's sanity. As a recovering alcoholic who was in a bad place with his family, Jack took a job at the Overlook Hotel as the winter caretaker, where he could be close to his wife Wendy and their young son Danny. This episode of Face-Off is written by Jay Saint G, narrated by Shawn Knippelberg, and edited by Jay Saint G.Jack Torrance was the main character of The Shining, and Jack Nicholson famously portrayed the patriarch of the Torrance family in director Stanley Kubrick's famous adaptation of the Stephen King novel.

That’s right! Grab your axe and pour yourself a glass of Red Rum because it’s time to shine… FACE OFF! In this modern age of legacy sequels, Doctor Sleep fared very well critically and currently has a fresh rating over on those Tomatoes That Are Rotten, but which of these Stephen King adaptations shines the brightest? The follow-up focuses on Danny dealing with the aftermath of the first movie’s events while protecting teenage girl Abra, who possesses the same power to shine, from the evil monsters of the True Knot led by Rose The Hat. The long-awaited sequel to The Shining based on the 2013 novel of the same name stars Obi-Wan Kenobi himself, Ewan McGregor, playing an adult Danny Torrance. Fast forward nearly 40 years later to 2019, Mike Flanagan’s Doctor Sleep hit theaters but underperformed at the box office.

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