Graveyard Shift

Graveyard Shift (1990)

Stephen King took you to the edge with The Shining and Pet Sematary. This time... he pushes you over.

John Hall is a drifter who wanders into a small town in Maine. He needs a job and decides to seek employment at the community's top business: a large textile mill. He is hired to work the "graveyard shift" -- from around midnight to dawn -- and, along with a few others, he is charged with cleaning out the basement. This task strikes the workers as simple enough, but then, as they proceed deeper underground, they encounter an unspeakable monstrosity intent on devouring them all.

Date of release
1990-10-26
TMDB
5.4 / 10 (316)
Runtime
1h 29m
Genres
Horror
Director
Ralph S. Singleton

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Box office: $11.6M
  • Budget: $10.5M
  • Earned 1.1× its budget
  • Based on: Graveyard Shift
  • Filmed in: Maine

Graveyard Shift is a 1990 American horror film directed by Ralph S. Singleton, written by John Esposito, starring David Andrews, Stephen Macht, Kelly Wolf, and Brad Dourif, and based on the 1970 short story of the same name by Stephen King which was first published in the October 1970 issue of Cavalier magazine, and later collected in King's 1978 collection Night Shift.

Production

The rights to Graveyard Shift were first optioned in 1985 by George Demick, a producer who had apprenticed under George A. Romero during the production of Knightriders, for his company Brimstone Productions. Demick acquired the rights from Stephen King while on vacation in North Carolina and stopped by the set of Maximum Overdrive with an introduction from Romero.

King later optioned Graveyard Shift for a relatively modest $2,500 to William J. Dunn who had worked on King projects such as Creepshow 2 and Pet Sematary as a location scout, as well as having helped to establish the Maine Film Office.

The film was shot 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.

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