Product Details

• Actors: David Andrews, Kelly Wolf, Stephen Macht, Andrew Divoff, Vic Polizos
• Directors: Ralph S. Singleton
• Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
• Language: French (Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo), English (Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround), English (Dolby Digital 5.1)
• Subtitles: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rating: R (Restricted)
• Studio: Paramount
• DVD Release Date: May 28, 2002
• Run Time: 88 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (40 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B000063URH
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #34,861 in Movies & TV (See Bestsellers in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "Graveyard Shift" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

Editorial Reviews

Product Description

Stephen King took you to the edge with The Shining and Pet Sematary. This time... he pushes you over. From horror master Stephen King comes his most terror-filled take yet. Gates Falls, Maine. 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 a group to clean up the mill's rat-infested basement. But what the workers find is a subterranean maze of tunnels leading to the cemetery - and an unimaginable horror that comes alive in the dead of the night.

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars IT'S NOT REALLY THAT BAD, July 8, 2005

By	Tim Janson (Michigan) - See all my reviews (TOP 50 REVIEWER)

Graveyard Shift is always high on the list of bad Stephen King films but I don't think it's all that bad. I have the advantage of never having read the story so I have no point of reference to compare it to, which helps I think. As most King movies do, this one is set in Maine, Gates Falls specifically. David Andrews is John Hall, a drifter who blows into town, looking for work. Well there's basically just one business to work at, and that's the old, decrepit textile mill that pretty much supports the town.

The mill is run by the hard-nosed, and sadistic Warwick (Stephen Macht) who hires Andrews to run a machine that can only be run at night due to the high summer heat. Andrews is alone in a dingy, dungeon of a room running his machine and encountering rats...lots of rats that even get inside the bags of cotton he's loading into the machine. Here he meets Tucker the exterminator, played by Brad Douriff with his usual flair for offbeat characters.

Soon Warwick volunteers several employees for the unenviable task of cleaning the basement. The basement makes the upper levels look like a palace, as its filled with water throughout its maze-like halls. But the little group soon finds themselves hunted by a very nasty creature.

Is Graveyard Shift a classic? heck no! But it does have some very heavy atmostphere. If you're the least bit claustrophobic the Mill's basement will really give you the creeps. It's got solid performances, especially from the over-bearing Macht. The creature may not be the greatest but you can do far worse on the video shelves than this film.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Very strange, August 30, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Graveyard Shift [VHS] (VHS Tape)

This movie is made rather half-heartedly, but it wallows so deep in the strange and disgusting that a fan of the horror genre can't help but be intrigued. It is based very loosely on Stephen King's story out of Night Shift. Its about a drifter who gets a job at an old mill where a bizarre death has just occured. The foreman is a sleazy adulterer who sleeps with his lady employees. The drifter falls for one of them and they become good friends. When one of the secretaries finds out she was put on cleanup, she trashes the foreman's car. Drifter stops the foreman from hitting the woman and the foreman asigns him to cleanup to take her place. That is when the party really gets started. The movie is by all means horrible, but it is still incredibly entertaining. It has no logic and the story is par at best, but you feel so compelled to watch it because it does hook you. Wich is why this is still one of my favorite horror movies. Look out for Brad Douriff as the exterminator.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good b horror flick, 3 1/2 stars is my rating., February 12, 2004

By	bill and phil does not matter (Des Moines, IA) - See all my reviews

This is a good example of a b horror movie. There is plenty of gore & bloodshed to be found here. The plot is decent as well, set in a textile mill in Gates Mill, Maine because Stephen King lives in Maine. It is set in a mill that still uses the picker system instead of the automation.
The best part of the flick is the final 20 minutes when we first see the giant bat/rat demon in the basement of the mill.
David Andrews & Kelly Wolf have never starred in a movie together to the best of my knowledge, but here their chemistry & love for each other is great. David is a drifter who gets gired to work in the mill for the 3rd shift, I work 3rd also. Kelly is Jane a beautiful millworker. Stephen Macht stars as the boss of the mill. Brad Dourif stars as the loveable exterminator, too bad he only gets 5-10 minutes worth of action.
A team to clean up the basement is assigned & David is the leader, they find the bodies of the missing co-workers, some rats which are bigger than they are, but the monster stays mainly unseen until the end.
The camera work is pretty good, but at times seems like it was done just to say it was done. The fact that the movie is set during the 11pm-7am hours of 3rd shift makes the atmosphere of the movie be very good.
The directing by Singleton is sub-par at times especially when the monster is seen on the first floor instead of the basement but mainly is pretty good. The special effects & elements of suspsense in the movie are really good.

Only two things wrong with the movie: 1. The acting is sub-par at times, but not enough to really hurt the quality of the movie. 2. The pace seems a little too brisk because the movie only runs 87 minutes, I would expand on it more, esp. showing the monster more.
The best parts are: 1. When they first discover what is in the basement & their reaction to it. 2. A secretary loses some papers & goes down to the basement after them, but trips & breaks her back, then she looks to see her demise. 3. The blood & gore of the movie is enough to satisfy horror buffs.