[2] They hunt for children because, as Rose explains to Danny Torrance in the film's final act, "the steam becomes corrupted as people grow up".

Lindsey Romain of Nerdist mentioned, "On first glance, she looks like a woman in an Anthropologie catalogue—not a character plucked from the pages of a modern horror novel.

The director of Gerald's Game and Hush proves again to be a very capable filmmaker when it comes to directing actresses, getting Ferguson's career-best work to date.

Her take on Rose the Hat turns a thin character on the page into a great villain, someone who uses her good looks and charisma to disguise her evil intentions.

"[6] Yolanda Machado of GQ added, "Perhaps it's this entrancing aura about her that made Doctor Sleep writer-director Mike Flanagan cast Ferguson as one of Stephen King's most intoxicating villains, Rose the Hat, in his new film.