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.
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Plot Summary
A drifter named Dan takes a job as a night watchman at a derelict textile mill in Maine. He soon discovers that the mill's basement is infested with a monstrous rat, and his new job might be a death sentence as the creatures begin to hunt the employees one by one. Dan must find a way to survive the night and stop the deadly vermin.
Critical Reception
Graveyard Shift was met with generally negative reviews from critics, who found the plot predictable and the scares uninspired. While some acknowledged the film's creature effects, many felt it relied too heavily on gore and lacked genuine tension or suspense, ultimately being a forgettable entry in the 1990s horror landscape.
What Reviewers Say
- Relies too heavily on gore and cheap scares.
- Predictable plot with uninspired horror elements.
- Creature effects are passable but cannot save the film.
Google audience: Audiences found the movie to be a standard B-movie horror flick, with some appreciating the creature feature aspect and others finding it too formulaic and lacking originality.
Fun Fact
The film is based on a short story of the same name by Stephen King, which was published in his 1970 collection 'Night Shift'.
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