History Film / GraveyardShift

* CoolCar: Wisconsky has a red 1966 Ford Mustang and Warwick has a black 1960 Cadillac Coupe DeVille.

Drifter John Hall arrives in a flyspeck town and goes to work at the local textile mill, where he discovers a severe rat problem in the basement. Warwick, the mill's disgruntled foreman, isn't willing to do anything about it until it becomes apparent that the mill will close unless the rats are stopped. Following a descent into the cavernous depths of the basement, Hall, Warwick, and other employees are trapped by a collapse, and soon encounter a gigantic, bat-like monster hellbent on devouring them.

* RepriseMedley: The end credits take snippets of Warwick's LargeHam dialogue and broad New English accent, and almost create a rap song. It's worthy of Music/WeirdAlYankovic. It's got to be heard to be believed.

* ArtisticLicenseBiology: Aside from the implausible mutations, the rats in the short story appear to have been locked up in a sealed sub-basement with no food source for years without dying. Averted in the film, where the tunnels are shown to be extensive and to connect to the outside.

* AdaptationalAttractiveness / AdaptationalBadass: Wisconsky in the short story is described as a lazy, whiny, cowardly fat man. Wisconsky in the movie is a fit and fairly attractive woman who is much braver and more proactive by comparison.

* BadBoss: Warwick, who on a good day fires his employees for questioning him and assigns workers he personally doesn’t like to shitty jobs out of spite, and in bad days outright attacks them.

* ChekhovsGun / ChekhovsSkill: Hall's slingshot, and his accuracy when using it to fire empty soda cans.

--> '''The Graveyahd shift.'''

* ShellShockedVeteran: Its pretty clear Tucker Cleveland is still traumatized over seeing fellow soldiers being eaten alive by giant rats.

* WhatTheHellIsThatAccent: Warwick's infamous speech patterns. The character is supposed to be from Maine but sounds more like, as one Website/YouTube comment put it,"every accent in the world, with perhaps a TOUCH of New England thrown in for variety"

-->''"...And I AIN'T one a' them burnin'-baby flashback fuckups y' see Bruce Dern playin', so quit yer grinnin'."''

''Graveyard Shift'' is a 1990 horror film, based on the short story of the same name by Creator/StephenKing and starring David Andrews, Creator/BradDourif, Creator/StephenMacht, and Creator/AndrewDivoff.

* TheVietnamVet: Cleveland, who specifically mentions the siege of Con Thien as the place where he first saw rats eat men alive; in the present day, he seems to have focused all his PTSD, anger, and psychotic tendencies onto rats specifically as a form of revenge. He admits it, somewhat, but also says that he doesn't think of himself as the "sad" or "pathetic" type:

** "Doris", the rat that urinates on a chair in the movie, must've been half bladder, as the resulting puddle covers nearly half the seat.

* BatOutOfHell: The monster appears to be a Type 2.

* RepriseMedley: The end credits take snippets of Warwick's dialogue and almost create a rap song. It's worthy of Music/WeirdAlYankovic. It's got to be heard to be believed.