There are the types of horror films made that surpass everyone's expectations and at the end of the movie, everyone is like "wow, that was pretty good for a horror movie". This isn't that kind of movie.
Reading the back of the box lets you know that GRAVEYARD SHIFT is nothing special. Just another hokey horror film made for the sole purpose of wasting people's time and having them break their TVs. The synopsis on the box makes no reference of this film having to do with killer rats, and when I first saw the one guy die in the beginning, I thought "Oh god I'm gonna shut this sh*t off!" but I didn't. (Don't read the rest of this unless you want the film to be spoiled for you miserably). Here's what happens: this guy kills one of the rats and then very duly, he says "class is over". I don't know what the hell that means, but, still he procedes to kill another one of the rats and I'm thinking to myself "I do hope that its ONLY about the stupid rats killing people and not some giant mutant creature". But, no such luck. We hear this creature thing scream out a cliched "reeeoooawwww!".
The rest of the film moves pretty much like that as well. There is even the token black guy in here which is pretty rare considering the fact that this film is made before 1994. It's such a shame that a Stephen King story had to be killed just about as brutally as some of the people in the film. Ralph S. Singleton directs a film that looks like the cast had a fun time making it, but, to be honest, this film is one big mindless cliche. Every scene in this film could probably be traced so some other horror movies. For a better killer rat movie, see a film which is aptly named THE RATS. I suggest that you read the Stephen King short story and then see a better film. Overall opinion, this is not a bad movie, just not a good one in the least.
GRAVEYARD SHIFT: 2/5.
Reading the back of the box lets you know that GRAVEYARD SHIFT is nothing special. Just another hokey horror film made for the sole purpose of wasting people's time and having them break their TVs. The synopsis on the box makes no reference of this film having to do with killer rats, and when I first saw the one guy die in the beginning, I thought "Oh god I'm gonna shut this sh*t off!" but I didn't. (Don't read the rest of this unless you want the film to be spoiled for you miserably). Here's what happens: this guy kills one of the rats and then very duly, he says "class is over". I don't know what the hell that means, but, still he procedes to kill another one of the rats and I'm thinking to myself "I do hope that its ONLY about the stupid rats killing people and not some giant mutant creature". But, no such luck. We hear this creature thing scream out a cliched "reeeoooawwww!".
The rest of the film moves pretty much like that as well. There is even the token black guy in here which is pretty rare considering the fact that this film is made before 1994. It's such a shame that a Stephen King story had to be killed just about as brutally as some of the people in the film. Ralph S. Singleton directs a film that looks like the cast had a fun time making it, but, to be honest, this film is one big mindless cliche. Every scene in this film could probably be traced so some other horror movies. For a better killer rat movie, see a film which is aptly named THE RATS. I suggest that you read the Stephen King short story and then see a better film. Overall opinion, this is not a bad movie, just not a good one in the least.
GRAVEYARD SHIFT: 2/5.