This film succeeds in many aspects. The ensemble cast are all great and there are no real week spots. The scenes that were flashbacks to 1980 when the events of its predecessor took place, it was refreshing that they used actors made-up to look, sound and act like Jack Nicholson’s Jack Torrence (Henry Thomas) and Shelley Duvall’s Wendy Torrence (Alex Essoe) rather than falling into the, frankly, boring trend of using CGI to recreate them. It made for a less distracting experience.