When Dan returns to the room his family stayed in at the Overlook Hotel, he sees the bathroom door that Jack hacked open with the axe and puts his face in the axed-open panel, recreating the iconic "Here's Johnny" shot. However, in "The Shining", Jack was shown to have hacked both upper panels open to try and get to Wendy, not just the one.
The apartment that the Torrances stayed in at the Overlook Hotel during The Shining had stairs going up right after entering the apartment. The stairs are not present in Doctor Sleep.
The garden hedge maze with snow is clearly not cold or using real snow as it was in "The Shining"; the texture is off and all the actors do not have visible breath as is typical on a winter day.
In the murder scene, Bradley Trevor's hands are free, but later, when Abra looks on his picture and gets into the car, his hands are tied.
Around 02:48:12 (Director's cut version), Abra is putting her hand on Dan's wrist. On the next shot, her hand is on Dan's hand. And so on...
When Danny stops for gas on his way to the Overlook, when he finishes filling the car, he places the gas nozzle back on the gas pump. On those style pumps, there is a slide type lever that must be operated to turn the pump on/off. He wouldn't be able to place the nozzle back in place without sliding the handle to the off position.
New Hampshire requires license plates on the rear AND front of the vehicle, multiple vehicles are shown without a front license plate.
In the Shining room 237 has a small square shaped entry/closet room between the front door (which leads into the hallway) and the living room but in this film that closet room is NOT there and the front door goes directly into the living room,
At 10:31, a Missing Child poster on a bulletin board identifies Cedar Key, FL, as in Cedar Key County, which does not exist in Florida. Cedar Key is in Levy County. Also, 407 is the area code for parts of Orlando (Orange) and Seminole and Osceola Counties, FL, not Levy County.
Roger Dale Floyd, who plays Young Danny, has brown eyes; Ewan McGregor, who plays older Danny, has blue.
The Overlook is surprisingly undamaged despite being abandoned for years. No graffiti, no broken windows, and it is remarkably clean.
Not a goof. The place is in the middle of nowhere, is the site of several murders, and is a haunted, supernatural place, which would explain why no one visited. Also, this is in line with what we know of the hotel. Don't forget that the lights magically turn themselves on when Danny walk through the building.... The hotel is supernatural.
Not a goof. The place is in the middle of nowhere, is the site of several murders, and is a haunted, supernatural place, which would explain why no one visited. Also, this is in line with what we know of the hotel. Don't forget that the lights magically turn themselves on when Danny walk through the building.... The hotel is supernatural.
When Dan and Abra are getting gas towards the end of the movie, the style of the pump he is using has a lever that must be moved in front of the opening for the spigot of the dispenser for it to activate. There is no lever there as he pumps, yet he is able to pump gas anyway.
When Abra drops her cell phone from the moving car, it sounds like the phone clatters onto the floor directly below her instead of bouncing on the road away from the vehicle.
When Dan and Billy are in the woods executing the trap set for the Knot, someone is visible in the background in woods.
It is surprising to see Dan and Billy kill so many members of the Knot so easily and without using any special powers, when the members of the Knot are supposed to have lived for thousands of years. Knowing that they are possibly walking into a trap and given their history of living for so long, they would be better prepared at hunting or when facing an obvious ambush scenario.
The ghost who says "great party, isn't it" has a British accent in The Shinning in1980 but an American accent in this movie.