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So far in this Week of Review, all the King adaptations I’ve looked at have been fairly unique from one another, barring one crossover character. That’s about to change with this film, Graveyard Shift. Released in 1990, Graveyard Shift was adapted from a Stephen King short story of the same name, much like The Mangler. Also much like The Mangler, Graveyard Shift revolves around a series of mysterious deaths in an industrial building that also happens to function as the lifeblood of a small Maine town and there’s an evil owner involved.
You know, when you lay it all out like this it becomes A LOT clearer why Stephen King adaptations would more or less flame out hard in 1995 and not really recover till 2013. Even accepting that The Mangler and Graveyard Shift are actually very different kinds of movies with unique approaches to horror the outward similarities are a little hard to overcome. Of course the biggest difference, and this is a tough one to avoid, is that Graveyard Shift isn’t nearly as good as The Mangler.
