“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.
David Andrews
John Hall
Kelly Wolf
Jane Wisconsky
Stephen Macht
Warwick
Andrew Divoff
Danson
Vic Polizos
Brogan
Brad Dourif
The Exterminator
Robert Alan Beuth
Ippeston
Ilona Margolis
Nordello
Jimmy Woodard
Carmichael
Jonathan Emerson
Jason Reed
Graveyard Shift is a horror film released in 1990 exploring themes of maine, based on short story, exterminator, rat, textile worker. Directed by Ralph S. Singleton, it stars David Andrews, Kelly Wolf, Stephen Macht. 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.
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