Night shift (film)

Movie
German title	Night shift
Original title	Graveyard Shift
Country of production	United States
original language	English
Publishing year	1990
length	89 minutes
Age rating	FSK 16
Rod
Director	Ralph S. Singleton
script	Stephen King , John Esposito
production	William J. Dunn
music	Brian Banks , ; Anthony Marinelli
camera	Beth Cotter
occupation
	David Andrews : John Hall; Kelly Wolf : Jane Wisconsky; Stephen Macht : Warwick; Andrew Divoff : Danson; Vic Polizos : Brogan; Brad Dourif : Tucker Cleveland;

Night Shift is a horror film shot in the USA in 1990 based on a short story collection of the same name by Stephen King that was published in the 1970s .

action

John Hall is a busy middle-aged guy applying for a job at a spinning mill in a small provincial town in the United States. The company's boss, Warwick, is an unscrupulous and quite unscrupulous man. John Hall gets the job of an employee who recently died mysteriously and bloodily on his sole night shift. Conditions are dire in the spinning mill. Thousands of rats populate it and are a constant nuisance to the employees and Tucker Cleveland, the hired exterminator with his dog Maxi, who is supposed to take action against the thousands of rats. The spinning mill lies in front of a large abyss through which a brook cuts its way, which has almost completely flooded an old, fog-shrouded cemetery. The company's building also has an ancient vaulted cellar containing rubble, rubbish, rats and another mysterious creature that nobody knows about. John Hall and several other employees are hired to clear this basement so that it can be used as a work area. John Hall discovers an old trap door that leads down to more vaulted cellars that have certainly not been entered for a century. While exploring this basement, which turns out to be a real labyrinth , all members of the cleaning team are gradually being torn to pieces by the mysterious being, which is apparently a huge cross between bat and rat.

After the creature's tail gets stuck in a picking machine while trying to kill Hall, Hall succeeds in starting the machine with the help of a slingshot and killing the monster.

criticism

"Boring film adaptation of a short story by Stephen King, whose threadbare story is populated by woodcut-like characters."

- Lexicon of international film

Awards

The film was nominated for an International Fantasy Film Award in 1991 .

Trivia

The mill is owned by a man named "Bachmann", Stephen King's pseudonym.
Kelly drives a 1967 Ford Mustang. The car appears in several King films (e.g. Misery ).

Web links

Individual evidence

↑ Night shift. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .

[1] Night shift. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .


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