- A directors cut was released on Blu Ray and Digital in February 2020
- The 3-hour Director's Cut restores the following scenes not shown in the theatrical cut:
- The film's title card is now shown in the beginning and the new cut is broken down into six chapters via their own respective chapter cards.
- In the prologue, there's extra dialogue by Rose on secret places in finding roses and then assuring Violet on not scaring her. After Violet gets caught, her mother searches for her only to find a van column driving away before it fades to black.
- In young Danny's first scene, the ghost of Mrs. Massey appearing in the house bath tub is shown in full. When Wendy enters the bathroom, a wet footprint is visible on the tub's mat.
- When Halloran talks to young Danny, there's more dialogue touching on the events that occurred in The Shining. Halloran describes The Overlook Hotel as mosquitoes landing on blood and a similar event that occurred to himself before.
- As the adult Danny stares into the mirror, there are more flashbacks describing the events the night before. He comes back to the bedroom and notices the empty bottle. In this version, he shows a little hesitation when he takes a wad of cash from the woman's wallet. As he's about to leave, he sees Halloran again,being warned not to put the Overlook's memories into the boxes.
- Little Abra's (the night before her birthday party) original introduction is restored back.
- A short scene explaining how Danny arrived in Frazier by buying a bus ticket. Another similar scene appears later, which setups Abra's first meeting with Danny in person.
- During little Abra's birthday party, there's more shots the magician performing tricks followed by another short exchange between David and Lucy about nap time.
- Rose emphasizes the importance of the True Knot and Andi's alliance to her.
- During Danny's first AA session with Billy, two short scenes have been put back: Dr. Dalton asks whether if there's any new person joining the session and then later an exchange referencing Billy's brother Frankie.
- After Snakebite Andi's initiation to the True Knot, she learns that she was out for a few days, then goes to hug Grandpa Flick. This immediately follows by Lucy calming little Abra down.
- There's a new long track shot through the Overlook Hotel to the bar in the Gold Room before the Chapter 3 title card is shown.
- In the second AA sequence, Danny talks more about his father and his broken arm.
- There's more dialogue between Charlie and Danny. Danny tells him about the relationship ("Farmall tractor. A striped umbrella over the seat. Five years old, pulling a red wagon.").
- More explicit shots on Bradley's death are added. Immediately after, Rose is furious that she could not have a few more extra minutes of harvesting his smoke. The grave digging shot is now composited in front of the Redrum message as Danny stares at it.
- When the True Knot finds out about Abra, Rose and Crow Daddy debate on neither killing nor turning her before she walks out of her trailer. The Chapter 4 title card shows up next.
- In Abra and Danny's first meeting in person, she talks from her point of view of using her shining abilities and her motives behind it. Danny warns her further.
- There's another flashback between Wendy and young Danny which makes clear that she's still struggling with the loss of Jack.
- During Halloran's final visit to Danny, he warns him further about the True Knot and the line, "Ka's a wheel, doc" is elaborated further.
- Crow Daddy interrupts Rose's meditation with a news of an unusual earthquake, which gives them clues of where to find Abra. He also reveals a plan on how to abduct her and suggests having Andi to guard Rose but was turned down.
- At the Stone's family house, Billy and Danny had a talk with David before Abra shows David her abilities including a flashback of Bradley's death.
- Crow Daddy's kidnapping of Abra and the killing of David is shown in full.
- In the Overlook Hotel's bar, there's more dialogue between Danny and Jack / Lloyd - he specifically talks about his childhood and using his ability one more time to fix Wendy's nightmare. He also reveals that he has been sober for eight years and to have a drink at this point would be like wasting those years of sobriety.
- Following their conversation, Lloyd takes Danny into the infamous red washroom and cleans him up. There, he stirs up Danny against Abra.
- At the end credits, two more cards showed up, displaying additional music credits for the added scenes following by a special thanks card for the new cut by director Mike Flanagan.
- A Cut version of this movie telecasted in HBO in India.In this cut strong moment of violence ,horror scenes were cut and profane words were muted.
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