Graveyard Shift (1990 film)

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Graveyard Shift
Graveyard Shift film.jpg
Theatrical poster
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 Brain Banks
Anthony Marinelli
Cinematography Peter Stein
Edited by Jim Gross
Randy Jon Morgan
Distributed by Paramount Pictures
Release dates
 October 26, 1990 (1990-10-26)
Running time
 89 minutes
Country United States
Language English
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.[2] First published in the 1970 issue of Cavalier magazine, and later collected in King's 1978 collection Night Shift.[2] 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 being that they 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 a giant bat that hunts at night. In the end, Hall is able to kill the giant bat when it gets caught in the grinding wheels of a cotton picker and crushed to death.

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, 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.[3] It grossed a total of $11,582,891 domestically.[4]

References

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