Story of movie Graveyard Shift 1990 Film : Graveyard Shift is a 1990 American horror film directed by Ralph S. Singleton, written by John Esposito and based on the short story of the same name by Stephen King which was 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.
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| Directed by | Ralph S. Singleton |
| Produced by | William J. Dunn Ralph S. Singleton |
| Screenplay by | John Esposito |
| Based on | Short story by Stephen King |
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| Music by | Brian Banks Anthony Marinelli |
| Cinematography | Peter Stein |
| Edited by | Jim Gross Randy Jon Morgan |
| Distributed by | Paramount Pictures |
Release date | October 26, 1990 |
Running time | 89 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $10.5 million |
| Box office | $11,582,895 |
Screenplay
When an abandoned textile mill is reopened, several employees meet mysterious deaths that 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 a cemetery—and a bat-like giant rat being which hunts at night. In the end, only Hall survives as he kills the giant rat by getting its tail caught in a cotton picker's grinding wheels to be crushed to death.
- David Andrews - John Hall
- Kelly Wolf - Jane Wisconsky
- Stephen Macht - Warwick
- Andrew Divoff - Danson
- Vic Polizos - Brogan
- Brad Dourif - The Exterminator
- Robert Alan Beuth - Ippeston
- Ilona Margolis - Nordello
- Jimmy Woodard - Carmichael
- Jonathan Emerson - Jason Reed
- Minor Rootes - Stevenson
- Kelly L. Goodman - Warwick's Secretary
- Susan Lowden - Daisy May
- Joe Perham - Mill Inspector
- Dana Packard - Millworker
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.
The film received poor reviews from critics, and 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.
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