Graveyard Shift

Oct 26, 1990

1h 29m

★ 5.4

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

Overview

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.

Genres

Horror

Production Companies

Paramount Pictures

Graveyard Productions

JVC

Graveyard Shift Trailers

Cast

John Hall

David Andrews

Jane Wisconsky

Kelly Wolf

Warwick

Stephen Macht

Danson

Andrew Divoff

Brogan

Vic Polizos

The Exterminator

Brad Dourif

Ippeston

Robert Alan Beuth

Nordello

Ilona Margolis

Carmichael

Jimmy Woodard

Jason Reed

Jonathan Emerson

Stevenson

Minor Rootes

Warwick's Secretary

Kelly L. Goodman

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