Graveyard Shift (1990)
Storyline
John Hall is a drifter who wanders into a small town in Maine. He needs a job and decides to seek employment at the community's top business: a large textile mill. He is hired to work the "graveyard shift" -- from around midnight to dawn -- and, along with a few others, he is charged with cleaning out the basement. This task strikes the workers as simple enough, but then, as they proceed deeper underground, they encounter an unspeakable monstrosity intent on devouring them all.
Directors
Writers
Cast
Trailer
Reviews
60
As directed by Ralph S. Singleton, Graveyard Shift works better above ground than below. The early scenes that allow the actors a little color are more fun than the all-basement episodes, which are visually monotonous despite the fact that the film's monster plot is a multi-media affair.
40
The film had the calculated feel of a movie made simply because the title was guaranteed to pull in audiences on opening weekend. Sadly, it's the kind of effort that gives horror films a bad name.
30
Where Misery restored one's faith in Stephen King adaptations, this travesty buries his reputation alive. Neither Singleton nor scriptwriter John Esposito has grasped the anti-capitalist undercurrents of King's story, relying instead on cheap shocks and dodgy creature effects.
30
This picture, which looks far, far better than it is, is so clunky that you can't be sure just how funny writer John Esposito, in adapting an early King short story, and director Ralph S. Singleton intended it to be.
25
San Francisco Chronicle
The rat problem happens only on the graveyard shift, accounting for the title of Stephen King's all-time worst movie -- and he's got a lot of them. [27 Oct 1990, p.C3]
Other Movies You Might Enjoy
Jan 21, Jan 1992House IV (1992)
Jul 22, Jul 19832019 After the Fall of New York (1983)
Apr 26, Apr 2023The Black Demon (2023)
Aug 2, Aug 2001The Others (2001)
May 9, May 2019Brightburn (2019)
Oct 31, Oct 1985A Nightmare on Elm Street 2 Freddy’s Revenge (1985)
Apr 10, Apr 1987Silent Night, Deadly Night 2 (1987)
Oct 6, Oct 2006The Texas Chainsaw Massacre The Beginning (2006)