Rebecca Ferguson's Rose the Hat in Doctor Sleep represents Stephen King's love for gothic horror and destructive human behavior.
The Big Picture A woman sings by a lake, dropping flowers into the water. Her soft-spoken voice is bewitching as a young girl walks up. There doesn’t seem to be any worry of stranger danger, the woman, Rose the Hat , isn’t scary. When Rose holds the little girl’s hand with a painful grip, the feeding soon begins.
She lures in children who have the psychic ability, “the Shining,” misleading them with her apparent kindness. They are then ruthlessly killed, their pain releasing the psychic essence, “steam,” which Rose and her followers, the True Knot, devour like vultures to roadkill. Killing brings out the True Knot's feral behavior, their eyes giving off an eyeshine effect of an animal. “Eat well. Stay young.
The True Knot kidnaps little Bradley , showing the kid no mercy. Rose takes charge in torturing the boy, to extract as much steam as possible. She cuts into the boy, pushing the pain in and the screams out. The scene is all the more disturbing as Rose and the True Knot members feel euphoric from the “steam” they're consuming. It’s a cold-blooded ritual that goes on and on, the sequence not cutting away like the movie did with the opening girl by the lake.
The clan is starving, with the “Shine” ability getting more and more rare in the world. When Grandpa Flick succumbs to his weak health, Rose is there to comfort him as he painfully dies, having stolen lifetimes from innocents. She tells him, sobs catching in her throat, “You watched empires rise and fall, cheered the gladiators in Rome, sailed across oceans to new worlds while you fed on kings and princes and popes.
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