Graveyard Shift (Day 2)
Based on the short story my Stephen King, Graveyard
Shift is a 1990 horror film. Directed by Ralph Singleton, and starring
Stephen Macht and David Andrews. Macht plays the unscrupulous foreman of
a run-down textile mill, Andrews a drifter
recently hired to run the basement cotton-picker. The season is a humid
summer, so hot and stifling that the mill can only be run during the
Graveyard shift. As Memorial Day approaches, several of the non-union
employees are offered a double pay opportunity
to help clean out the sub-basements of the rat-infested mill.
Not the best or most grounded story, Graveyard
Shift has a distinctive B-Movie ascetic and seems to depend far more on
developing a mood and feeling than anything else. this is a dirty,
grimy, disgusting little film that drips with sweat.
You can practically smell the rot and mildew that has to run through
the building- the rats and their grimy bodies almost seem to crawl out
of the screen and pass over your bare toes in the wee hours of the
night. It’s blatantly nasty and Macht’s over the
top performance is the perfect cherry on top of this ridiculous
creature feature.
6.5 out of 10.
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