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Graveyard Shift
Theatrical poster
Directed byRalph S. Singleton
Screenplay byJohn Esposito
Produced byWilliam J. Dunn
StarringDavid Andrews
Kelly Wolf
Stephen Macht
Brad Dourif
CinematographyPeter Stein
Edited byJim Gross
Randy Jon Morgan
Music byBrain Banks
Anthony Marinelli
Distributed byParamount
Release date
October 26, 1990 (1990-10-26)
Running time
89 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$10.5 million
Box office$11,582,891[1]

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

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.[2] It grossed a total of $11,582,891 domestically.[3]

References

  1. ^ http://boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=graveyardshift.htm
  2. ^ "Weekend Box Office October 26-28, 1990". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved 2011-11-07.
  3. ^ "Graveyard Shift (1990)". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved 2011-11-07.
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