
Brad Dourif is the film’s “star power” as the exterminator, but his role seems rather forced and underdeveloped. 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. He needs a job and decides to seek employment at the communitys top business: a large textile mill. David Andrews and Stephen Macht don’t really stand out as the main leads, and Kelly Wolf’s performance as the lead female also is rather muted. Graveyard Shift is the latest failed attempt to visualize what King imagines so well. John Hall is a drifter who wanders into a small town in Maine. Valentine Michael Smith was dead on about the nature of what is funny. During the Vietnam War, rats worked for the Viet Cong. Short Comedy Horror On his first night on the job, a night watchman for an office sees a ghost on his surveillance feed. Things I Learned From This Movie: You do not want to know the truth about red or yellow wool.
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The movie completely devolves into a survival movie (which seems pretty sloppy) at the end and the horror and deaths are pretty predictable. The movie ends with the 'Graveyard Shift' song, a funky beat punctuated by quotes sampled from the film. The New York Times wrote that the films actors 'deserve special credit for working. Watch it on The Roku Channel, Spectrum TV. Streamin King: Graveyard Shift Is An Old School Gross Out Frightfest. The movie brings in an exterminator to add some humor to the film with his attempts to kill the rats (which was done much better with John Goodman’s character in Arachnophobia). Graveyard Shift, a horror movie starring David Andrews, Kelly Wolf, and Stephen Macht is available to stream now. The movie trudges along slowly with the occasional death mixed in. John Esposito is on screenplay duties here, taking a claustrophobic story. Also like Edgar Allan Poe, many of these movies were adapted…to some success and some failure. Graveyard Shift is adapted from Stephen King’s short story of the same name, which appeared in his Night Shift collection.
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King not only wrote a lot of full length novels, but like Edgar Allan Poe, he wrote many short stories.


Bet that monster is cool…wish I could see itĪfter the success of movies like Carrie, The Shining, and even Christine, Stephen King was a hot commodity with his horror selling at the top of the charts and fans always rabid for more. Singleton Movie Information Synopsis Overview AllMovie ReviewReview User Reviews Cast & Crew Characteristics.
