Graveyard Shift (1990 film)

Graveyard Shift
Theatrical poster
Directed by	Ralph S. Singeton
Written by	Screenplay: John Esposito Short story: Stephen King
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 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 1990.

There are many differences between the story and the movie adaptation. First, the main antagonist in the story is a cow-sized broodmother rat with no hair, eyes, or legs, while in the movie, it is an amalgam of several rats featureed in the story; Firstly, it is a cow-sized and bat-like rat monster; It also has no hair or eyes which is likely yet another homage; Whilst, in the story, there were multiple bat-like rats among other unique sub-species (A strange and varied combination of creatures; Complete with its own bizarre, self-sustaining ecosystem. Including large, armoured rats; Albino, weasel-like rats that can climb up walls or burrow through the ground; And bat-like rats that have evolved to pterodactyl-like sizes. In the story, Hall is killed by the rats as he tries to escape the sub-basement. In the movie, he survives after catching the monster in the picker machine which tears it to shreds. The exterminator, played by Brad Dourif, did not appear in the short story. In the story, the character of Wisconsky is a middle-aged man who Hall is somewhat friends with. In the movie, the character is a young woman, with the first name Jane, who becomes Hall's girlfriend.

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.

External links

• Graveyard Shift at IMDb