Graveyard Shift
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.
Critics Sentiment
Brad Dourif's exterminator tells disturbing Vietnam rat story
Insane Warwick attacks Hall and stabs Wisconsky
The film peaks with Brad Dourif's mesmerizing Vietnam monologue then steadily declines as character deaths become senseless and the ending completely abandons atmospheric dread for generic creature feature nonsense.
Critics found Graveyard Shift to be a deeply flawed Stephen King adaptation that squanders its atmospheric mill setting and strong villain performance. While Brad Dourif's exterminator scenes and the oppressive industrial atmosphere earned praise, the film deteriorates into predictable kills and an abysmal finale. Most reviewers cited terrible acting, poor character development, and a nonsensical creature reveal that abandons the story's psychological horror potential.
Full cast
Showing 20 of 21David Andrews
John Hall
Kelly Wolf
Jane Wisconsky
Stephen Macht
Warwick
Andrew Divoff
Danson
Vic Polizos
Brogan
Brad Dourif
The Exterminator
Robert Alan Beuth
Ippeston
Ilona Margolis
Nordello
Jimmy Woodard
Carmichael
Jonathan Emerson
Jason Reed
Minor Rootes
Stevenson
Kelly L. Goodman
Warwick's Secretary
Susan Lowden
Daisy May
Joe Perham
Mill Inspector
Dana Packard
Millworker
Skip Wheeler
Millworker
Richard France
Millworker
Anne Rooney
Millworker
Raissa Danilova
Millworker
Emmet Kane
Exterminator's Assistant
Crew
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