‘Children of the Corn’ Review: This Agricultural Horror Reboot Belongs in the Compost Bin In the new film, things get complicated for McGregor’s adult Danny when he meets a young girl who shares his psychic gifts while working at a hospice center. (To recap: While serving as caretaker at a freaky hotel in the Rockies, his failed-writer father fell off the wagon, became terrorized by ghosts real or imagined, and tried to slaughter his entire family with an axe as if to fulfill some prophecy left behind the last caretaker, whose specter ghoulishly haunts the halls.)īelow, IndieWire has rounded up first impressions of the movie, which also stars Rebecca Ferguson, Carl Lumbly, and Alex Essoe. The film is an adaptation of King’s 2013 novel of the same name, which serves as a sequel to “ The Shining,” here following grown-up Danny ( Ewan McGregor) in his attempts to build a normal life in the shadow of everything that went down at the Overlook. First reactions are pouring in for writer/director Mike Flanagan’s Stephen King adaptation “ Doctor Sleep,” which Warner Bros.
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