Graveyard Shift (1990 film)

Graveyard Shift
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Directed by	Ralph S. Singleton
Screenplay by	John Esposito
Produced by	William J. Dunn
Starring	David Andrews Kelly Wolf Stephen Macht Brad Dourif
Cinematography	Peter Stein
Edited by	Jim Gross Randy Jon Morgan
Music by	Brain Banks Anthony Marinelli
Distributed by	Paramount
Release date	October 26, 1990 (1990-10-26)
Running time	89 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$10.5 million
Box office	$11,582,891

Graveyard Shift is a 1990 film directed by Ralph S. Singleton, written by John Esposito and based on the short story of the same name by Stephen King; First published in the 1970 issue of Cavalier magazine, and later collected in King's 1978 collection Night Shift. The movie was released in October 1990.

Plot

When an abandoned textile mill is reopened, several employees meet mysterious deaths. The link between the killings: all occurred between the hours of 11 p.m. and 7 a.m.—the graveyard shift. The sadistic mill foreman (Stephen Macht) has chosen newly-hired drifter John Hall (David Andrews) to help a group clean up the mill's rat-infested basement. The workers find a subterranean maze of tunnels leading to the cemetery—and an unimaginable horror that comes alive in the dead of night.

Production

The movie was filmed in the village of Harmony, Maine at Bartlettyarns Inc., the oldest woolen yarn mill in the United States (est. 1821). The historic Bartlett mill was renamed "Bachman" for the movie, an homage to King's pseudonym, Richard Bachman. The interior shots of the antique mill machinery, and the riverside cemetery, were in Harmony. Other scenes (restaurant interior, and giant wool picking machine) were at locations in Bangor, Maine, at an abandoned waterworks and armory. A few other mill scenes were staged near the Eastland woolen mill in Corinna, Maine, which subsequently became a Super Fund site.

Reception

The film received poor reviews from critics, as it currently holds a 13% rating on Rotten Tomatoes.

Graveyard Shift was a modest box office success for Paramount. The film was released October 26, 1990 in the United States, opening in first place that weekend. It grossed a total of $11,582,891 domestically.

External links

• Graveyard Shift at IMDb
• Graveyard Shift at Rotten Tomatoes