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A WELL WRITTEN HORROR FLICK, A MUST FOR STEPHEN KING FANS...

This movie, is not for the weak stomaches, but most of all its a great STEPHEN KING film. Funny laughs, and a great screen play.

kinda cheesy

kinda cheesy but still an okay flick cause it is watchable but it gets way too cheesy for it's own good and the ending is laughable acting is decent and there is a fair amount of gore but still it's nothing better the average ** out of 5 worth a watch if ya got nothing better too do

Probably the worst film ever made of a King work

Graveyard Shift is a contemptible piece of crap. That it was based on the wonderful and creepy short story of the same name is even worse. The story and the film have very little in common. The monster in the film is NOT in the book and I highly recommend that you read the story and forgo the movie entirely. The movie itself is horribly done with horrible acting save the performance of Brad Dourif, who is always good. Brad must have been hurting for money because this is obviously just a payday for him. Bottom Line: Unless it is your mission to watch every film based on King's work, forget this movie ever existed and go back to your life, which is better off without the memory of this movie anyway.

better then that there sody pop can

You've got to be kidding me. The main villian in this movie has an accent from the piney South that grates on the ears like a nail file slathered in acid. Example: "This is Warwick. WHoooooTT?? cOME HEEERE, BOY. Postman come knockin' at you dooooorrrrr. Tell me a college boy like you don't needdd dooouuuubbbllel pay. We'll talk about that there thing latttahhh. Yo a driftah. And I get no guaranteees from a driftah. I'm not kidding you, these are some of the lines from the dialogue of this horrid movie. However, I did laugh my fanny off watching this supposed, horror flick, which is much funnier than your typical comedy...

Weak Adaptation

This is one of the worst Stephen King movies ever. I surely hope that he had nothing to do with the making of this movie. The only similarites between the movie and the short story are the big rats. The makers pumped this full of so much crap to make it movie length. The acting was weak and the premise was just stupid (if they could see the mill from the rat's "lair," there's no way it would have gone undiscovered). Don't even bother. If you're interested at all, just get Night Shift at your library and read the 10 page story.

So bad, it's hillarious

There have been many films made that are scary and are based on Stephen King novels/short stories.

This is not one of them.

This movie is really, really badly made. Yes, the story concerns rats, a giant basement, workers....

the short story was OK...but, this film....No

The acting, the "special effects", the constant sweating of the main character (ha ha)....too much to mention

The only thing that would make this movie watchable is if the Mystery Science Theatre 3000 crew could come back... This is one of those types of movies. ....

I made my own jokes throughout this movie, but I am not as funny of a writer as the MST3K folks.

Anyways, this movie proves that bad B movies werent just made in the 50s-80's....the 90's chalked up some MST3K-worthy stuff all it's own

If you want to see a Stephen King adaptation that is scary....get something else. Plenty of others to pick from. Allright then.

Not the best Stephen King movie, but not the worst

The first time I saw this movie was in the theater back in 1990 when it was released. I just saw it again a few days ago for the second time. That should give you an idea of how great it is.

I didn't think the directing was that bad, but the special effects were pretty bad, and if you pay attention to the surroundings, you will find yourself asking a lot of questions. Such as after the trap door is found, 6 or so people go down a ladder to investigate. The ladder holds all 6 just fine. When the guy with the hose runs back up it, the ladder sudden breaks and he falls through the floor. How did it hold 6 people just a few minutes ago and now it can't hold him? Another part shortly after this is when the main character, the lady, and the foreman all end up in the pile of skeletons. Kind of strange that dozens, if not hundreds of skeletons just happened to all be in the same place, and they are all pretty clean. The background to that scene looks VERY fake, like a painting.

The movie does have inconsistencies, some scenes are very predictable, and some parts just don't make sense.

For me, the gore was the best. I don't feel a horror movie should be classified as horror unless it is gory. Graveyard Shift has a fair amount of gore. It would very likely scare small kids, but teenagers or anyone older than that wouldn't be bothered at all.

Overall it is pretty decent. Would kill some time for you. If you had to leave the room for whatever reason and you miss a scene, you wouldn't be missing much.

So as I stated, its just alright. I've seen much better and I've seen much worse. If you still aren't sure if you would like this movie, go rent it one night. The worst that will happen is you wasted a few bucks.

I'd rather pull a sickie on this shift...

When I came to watch this movie, I had armed myself with pessimism, after all, Stephen King book-made-movies sure do suck the pacifier. I won't waste my words on the plot, there's one available back in the movie details, but if you came here looking for plot details, think factory, think monster, think OH&S issues, therein lies the story. To be brief without sounding too pretentious, it sucks. There is no tension, I have seen more tension in my upper thigh region. While a lot of movies keep their monster mysteriously hidden from the viewer to invoke the fear not knowing (Rosemary's Baby for instance) it usually works. I think there is intention in this movie, but as I pointed out in my earlier summarizing, it sucks. It sucks on many levels of suck. The monster is pitiful, full of pity for the Alzheimeric. I was expecting the devil incarnate, to redeem the celluloid mockery previously screened but instead I got a damned fruit bat. I wasted 90 minutes of my life, I respect your condolences.

JUST PLAIN AWFUL!!!

Even when stacked up against all those other lousy Stephen King movie adaptions, this is still one of the worst movies I have ever seen.

These people aren't even trying to make a picture that is in the least bit watchable.

If you haven't seen this movie, trust me, it's not worth a minute of your time. If you have seen this movie, you have my sympathies.

Forget it.

The only thing that scared me about this movie was that there were other filmmakers that were almost as bad (if not worse), as Edward D. Wood Jr.. I don't know why I'm even writing about this piece of s**t! If you are stupid enough to even think about wasting your time on this, then you need your head examined! I can't even think of enough bad things to say about this thing! I rented it, and I want my money back! You're an idiot if you even consider watching it to see how bad it is. At least Ed Wood's "Plan 9" was funny. I pity the actors who had to go through with this insidiously stupid crap!

Rats in the Walls

A drifter is looking for a new start and applies for a job at a mill in a small town. Conditions at the mill are not great but work is work. The foreman is a total jerk and get off on wielding his power. But things really start to get bad when a crew is sent to clean out the mill's basement. Due to the heat, work is done at night. The whole mill is infested with rats but there is something else lurking in the dark.

As the work progresses cleaning out the basement, it becomes clear that there is more to the mill. A trapdoor leads into another level showing where the mill used to run on river power. This level leads to other spaces and caves. It soon becomes apparent that there is something very deadly lurking down in the dark. The crew's numbers drop quickly and it becomes a race to survive. What lurks in the dark? Who will get away? Will the creature be stopped? Watch and find out.

This is one of the earlier Stephen King films and it is based on one of his creepier stories. Unfortunately the set design leaves a little to be desired. For instance, the old water wheel's bottom is in workspace inside the building. I have no idea how water was ever supposed to get to the wheel and turn it. But the story holds together well even if some of the scenery needs some continuity work. The creature is scary and characters colorful and interesting. Really one of the better Stephen King adaptations. Check it out.

Inferior rat movie

This movie was well done and took the short story to its farthest limits. But it still REEKED! Sorry, but since "Willard" and Michael Jackson's "Ben," I've had nothing for rat movies. The actors did the best they could with this type of scripting, the director must've been on some heavy medications or something to even take this job, and the effects were typical, pre-star wars fare.Honestly, this was a dismal attempt with no scares, few creative devices, no suspense, and very little in the way of entertainment.Hated It!! I don't even care that Stephen King's name is on it...somewhere. And the end? The monster at the end? Isn't even a freaking RAT! It's a giant BAT! WTF?! It gets a 1.3/10 from...the Fiend :.

Pretty Good

This isnt a very scary nor suspenseful film. But it is fun to watch. A short story turned into a long story. The plot isnt that great, though but the effects such as the bat, the basement below the basement and the murders are pretty cool. The best performances are the characters of Hall, Warwick and the Exterminator

Pretty weak film.

This was pretty poor. It has good direction and a good script, but it is overall pretty much your low budget ametureish stuff. skip this one.

Strange...............

I just gave this movie 4 stars because I saw it a while ago and don't remember TOO much of it. The Graveyard Shift monster is weird with a lot of rats around. I do remember there were some rats in it. Didn't they even describe what that thing looked like? It was alright, anyway. {FYI, I don't think the creature was shown, and it had something to do with a sewer}. Altogether, it was a neat Stephen King movie. I am a big fan of Mr. King and I think he has a lot of rad stuff in his movies. When I say "rad", I mean like....strange. Like this movie. I still don't remember too much of it......

Well, it didn't get any better

This was absolutely one of the worst films I have ever seen, if it in fact doesn't take the top spot. The monster rats were the most fake looking animals I have seen in a film, the acting was half-hearted at best, and the script was pathetic. It looked as if everyone involved with the film took their jobs as a favor for someone. I would imagine that King was embarrassed to find one of his stories turned into such celluloid crap.Did I mention that i didn't like this film very much?

mediocre at best

i rented it a few weeks ago, mostly because it was $1. if you've read the short story, you won't hate this movie, but it's mediocre at best. if it's on tv it's worth watching, not renting.

Drop the F, and you have a pretty accurate description

When Stephen King hit his stride as an author whose nearly superhuman literary output averaged at least one book per year, his whoring of the rights to said books also yielded more rancid cinematic rapes than a crime-scene photographer (or film critic) would wish to count. "Graveyard Shift" is one such rancid production, a film whose sheer badness on almost every level makes it a slightly hypnotic, "let's-see-how-much-worse-it-can-get" venture, but mostly winds up a jaw-dropping exercise in futility. Based on the short story of the same name from King's "Night Shift" anthology, one would think a 90-minute film would be the ideal forum to iron out the nuances of a compact literary piece. Then again, that would require filmmakers who know how to expand the material in a creative, interesting way, and one of "Graveyard Shift"'s many problems is that the source story isn't the greatest, and John Esposito's adaptation and Ralph Singleton's direction doesn't know where to go with it. While this tale of textile-mill workers abused by a shifty, sadistic foreman (Stephen Macht) and menaced by a subterranean rat-bat seems a muddled allegory for the human "rat race" being a literal dive into the darkest pit of Hell, it is lost in the onslaught of terrible acting and unfocused characters. While King (not to mention directors who understand his work) brings a certain local quirkiness to his patented New Englanders, here they are transformed into grotesque, unpleasant yokels whose punchlines fall completely flat (the worst miscalculation being Brad Dourif's hambone Exterminator)–the violence lacks any irony, and is just more grist for the blood-spattered mill. The only remotely credible actor is Macht, whose performance hints at campy greatness that goes unrealized as a result of the script's awkward attempts at intentional comedy. The only thing that really gives "Graveyard Shift" any redeeming value is the often-creative set design (including an underground labyrinth that threatens to create actual atmosphere), and the not-bad (but far from great) creature FX; additionally, the small New England town does evoke King's prose with some credibility–it's too bad nobody could think of a way to put it to good use.

Good

Stephen King films are usually a lot worse then the books. His worst stinker to date was the incredibly poor `It'. This, I believe, was one of the films that I didn't manage to see during my Stephen King phase, screening on television late night. My mother can hear the TV upstairs when she is asleep, but I managed to watch this without her hearing anything, in the dark at around one in the morning. It really helped the atmosphere. This movie has a bleak atmosphere, one that is truly evil. The fact that the exposure this film gets in the horror genre is practically nil, it really surprised me. When watched late at night, it certainly sends a chill down your spine – some truly horrible scenes are in this. Take the scene where the mans head gets crushed by a coffin outside in the pouring rain, in the mud, his head gets crushed into rock, mixing blood with mud, then all you hear is the eerie silence and the pouring of rain. This scene is really eerie, and sent chills right down my spine. This film isn't brilliant, but it's certainly one of the only Stephen King films that managed to make me feel slightly unsettled. The only other moment in a King film that had me shocked was when you saw someone getting shot through the back, with blood spraying out the other side in Misery. It was a true `Where did that come from' moment! The acting is average, and the special effects are as good as they need to be. The ending is somewhat uninspired. Overall, a good `watch late at night in the dark' movie.

Revenge of the 80's: The works of Stephen King.

Graveyard Shift (1990) was another Stephen King short story that was stretched out to fill a ninety minute movie. I felt that the movie would have worked as a short subject. But as a full length picture was too much of an overkill for me. What made the story cool (many references to H.P. Lovecraft) were missing and a lot of needless in-jokes were added to the mix. I have a question, why were so many bad movies that were produced under the Stepehn King moniker released during the eighties. Like I have said in the past, it was the era of such wonderful film making.A young dude decides to take a job at a rundown mill. Whilst working the night shift, he encounters a mean boss who doesn't like him and less than desirable working conditions. Will the young dude make it to clock out? What will he find in the cellar? Just how mean his his boss? To find out you'll have to suck it up and watch GRAVEYARD SHIFT. Don't confuse with the amusing GRAVEYARD SHIFT from 1987. You might actually be entertained.Not recommended at all.