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* AdaptedOut: [[spoiler: The Queen Rat]] doesn't appear in the movie at all, despite being TheReveal in the short story.
* AnimalisticAbomination: [[spoiler: The Queen Rat in the short story, a massive, cow-sized creature with no eyes or limbs, who exists solely to endlessly spawn more rats.]]
* AscendedExtra: The Bat-Rat, which was just mentioned in passing in the short story as one of several unique breeds that had evolved in the isolated ecosphere beneath the mill, is the BigBad in the movie.
* AnimalisticAbomination: [[spoiler: The Queen Rat in the short story, a massive, cow-sized creature with no eyes or limbs, who exists solely to endlessly spawn more rats.]]
* AscendedExtra: The Bat-Rat, which was just mentioned in passing in the short story as one of several unique breeds that had evolved in the isolated ecosphere beneath the mill, is the BigBad in the movie.
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* HereWeGoAgain: The short story ends with the morning shift workers arriving at the mill, completely unaware of the horror they're about to descend into.
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** ''ALL'' the rats in the short story, especially once the workers descend into the sub-basement where the rats have bred and evolved completely undisturbed for decades.
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* FreudianExcuse: Cleveland’s love of killing rats stems from having watched the Viet Cong feed his fellow soldiers to rats during the Vietnam War.
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* FreudianExcuse: Cleveland’s Tucker Cleveland's love of killing rats stems from having watched the Viet Cong feed his fellow soldiers to rats during the Vietnam War.
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* WorldOfHam: With the exception of Hall and Wisconsky, everyone is some flavor of a LargeHam.
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''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, Stephen Macht, and Creator/AndrewDivoff.
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''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, Stephen Macht, Creator/StephenMacht, and Creator/AndrewDivoff.
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[[caption-width-right:300:It’s a living... but not for long.]]
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* CensorBox: InUniverse. The bulletin board at the diner has a centerfold pinup, to which someone has affixed a notice big enough to cover her rack.
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* 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.
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* EccentricExterminator: Tucker Cleveland (played by Creator/BradDourif).
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* EccentricExterminator: Tucker Cleveland (played by Creator/BradDourif).Creator/BradDourif) takes way too much pride in killing rats, and keeps a dog specifically bred and trained to hunt rats that he feeds whiskey and a pistol, which he uses in particularly aggressive rats.
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* FreudianExcuse: Cleveland’s love of killing rats stems from having watched the Viet Cong feed his fellow soldiers to rats during the Vietnam War.
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* RodentsOfUnusualSize: Cleveland recounts how, while he was in the Vietnam War, he saw the Viet Cong train rats at least a foot long to eat American soldiers.
* ShellShockedVeteran: Its pretty clear Tucker Cleveland is still traumatized over seeing fellow soldiers being eaten alive by giant rats.
* ShellShockedVeteran: Its pretty clear Tucker Cleveland is still traumatized over seeing fellow soldiers being eaten alive by giant rats.
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* RepriseMedley: The end credits take snippets of Warwick's dialogue and almost create a rap song. It's worthy of WeirdAlYankovic. It's got to be heard to be believed.
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* RepriseMedley: The end credits take snippets of Warwick's dialogue and almost create a rap song. It's worthy of WeirdAlYankovic.Music/WeirdAlYankovic. It's got to be heard to be believed.
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* TerrifyingPetStoreRat: While they're at least agouti and ''look'' wild, the live rats aren't particularly aggressive-looking..
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* TerrifyingPetStoreRat: While they're at least agouti and ''look'' wild, the live rats aren't particularly aggressive-looking..aggressive-looking. Some of them are even visibly bruxing - busily grinding their back teeth - which any rat-lover will tell you is ''cheerful'' body language.
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* AxCrazy: Warwick, eventually.Warwick goes batshit crazy after being trapped in the cave underneath the mill and sustaining a severe head injury.
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* BigBadEnsemble: The monster and Warwick after he snaps.goes crazy.
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* SanitySlippage: Warwick suffers it after being trapped in the mill's depths.
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* SanitySlippage: Warwick suffers it after being trapped in the mill's depths. The head injury he sustained couldn’t have helped either.
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* TakingYouWithMe: [[spoiler:Warwick]] tries to kill the giant bat and is killed by it as a result.
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* TakingYouWithMe: [[spoiler:Warwick]] tries to kill do this with the giant bat and is killed by it as a result.monster. He fails.
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''Graveyard Shift'' is a 1990 horror film, based on the short story of the same name by Creator/StephenKing.
Creator/StephenKing and starring David Andrews, Creator/BradDourif, Stephen Macht, and Creator/AndrewDivoff.
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* AssholeVictim: 2 of the workers who picked on Hall throughout the movie.
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* AssholeVictim: 2 of the workers Danson, Brogan, and Stephenson who picked on Hall throughout the movie.
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* AxCrazy: Warwick, eventually.
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* LargeHam: Warwick, Tucker, and most of the mill workers.
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* WellIntentionedExtremist: Warwick is a BadBoss because he believes it's the only way to keep the mill open. [[spoiler:This goes out the window once he goes crazy.]]
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* EccentricExterminator: Tucker Cleveland (played by Brad Dourif).
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* DeathByAdaptation: [[spoiler:Wisconsky is mortally wounded by Warwick.]]
* EccentricExterminator: Tucker Cleveland (played byBrad Dourif).Creator/BradDourif).
* FacingTheBulletsOneLiner: [[spoiler:Warwick]], when about to make a suicidal attack on the monster, spouts this at it:
-> [[spoiler:'''Warwick''']]: We're going to Hell... ''together!''
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* FacingTheBulletsOneLiner: [[spoiler:Warwick]], when about to make a suicidal attack on the monster, spouts this at it:
-> [[spoiler:'''Warwick''']]: We're going to Hell... ''together!''
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* TakingYouWithMe: Warwick tries to kill the giant bat and is killed by it as a result.
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* TakingYouWithMe: Warwick [[spoiler:Warwick]] tries to kill the giant bat and is killed by it as a result.
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* 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.
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* 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.
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* WhatTheHellIsThatAccent: Warwick's infamous speech patterns. The character is supposed to be from Maine but sounds more like, as one YouTube comment put it,"every accent in the world, with perhaps a TOUCH of New England thrown in for variety"
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* WhatTheHellIsThatAccent: Warwick's infamous speech patterns. The character is supposed to be from Maine but sounds more like, as one YouTube Website/YouTube comment put it,"every accent in the world, with perhaps a TOUCH of New England thrown in for variety"
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* TerrifyingPetStoreRat: While they're at least agouti and ''look'' wild, the live rats aren't particularly aggressive-looking.
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* TerrifyingPetStoreRat: While they're at least agouti and ''look'' wild, the live rats aren't particularly aggressive-looking.aggressive-looking..
* RepriseMedley: The end credits take snippets of Warwick's dialogue and almost create a rap song. It's worthy of WeirdAlYankovic. It's got to be heard to be believed.
--> '''The Graveyahd shift.'''
--> '''Show's....Ovah!'''
--> '''Can't be more than an instant enema by now.'''
* RepriseMedley: The end credits take snippets of Warwick's dialogue and almost create a rap song. It's worthy of WeirdAlYankovic. It's got to be heard to be believed.
--> '''The Graveyahd shift.'''
--> '''Show's....Ovah!'''
--> '''Can't be more than an instant enema by now.'''
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* TakingYouWithMe: Warwick tries to kill the giant bat and is killed by it as a result.
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* WhatTheHellIsThatAccent: Warwick's infamous speech patterns. The character is supposed to be from Maine but sounds more like, as one YouTube comment put it,"every accent in the world, with perhaps a TOUCH of New England thrown in for variety"
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* NoisyNature: The rats squeak constantly.
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* UrineTrouble: One incontinent rat leaves a large puddle of pee on the seat of a chair.
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* AdaptationDistillation: The short story's premise that ordinary rats had mutated into winged giants isn't referenced at all, leaving the monster as a ''slightly'' less-fantastical giant bat.
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* AdaptationDistillation: The short story's premise that ordinary rats had mutated evolved into armored and winged giants variants controlled by a giant albino queen isn't referenced at all, leaving the monster as a ''slightly'' less-fantastical giant mutant bat.
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* AdaptationalVillainy: Warwick in the short story was simply a dick to Hall and the other mill workers, more or less ending up an AssholeVictim. Warwick in the film is a sadistic lunatic who goes full-blown murderous by the final act. Ironically, it's Hall who seems to have the sadistic traits in the short story.
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* AdaptationalVillainy: Warwick in the short story was simply a dick to Hall and the other mill workers, more or less ending up an AssholeVictim. Warwick in the film is a sadistic lunatic who goes full-blown murderous by the final act. Ironically, it's Hall who seems to have the sadistic traits in the short story.
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'''''Graveyard Shift''''' is a 1990 horror film, based on the short story of the same name by Creator/StephenKing.
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.
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* AnArmAndALeg: [[spoiler:Carmichael]] gets his arm ripped off after [[HandInTheHole sticking it through a hole in a wall.]] Mind, this is after he and the other workers [[TooDumbToLive know there's a killer monster with them.]]
* BadWithTheBone: One is wielded by Warwick in the film's final act.
* BatOutOfHell: The monster appears to be a Type 2.
* ChekhovsGun: Hall's slingshot.
* CruelAndUnusualDeath: The opening victim falls into machinery and is torn apart. [[spoiler:The monster meets the same fate at the end.]]
* EccentricExterminator: Tucker Cleveland (played by Brad Dourif).
* GenderFlip: Wisconsky, an enormously fat guy in the short story, is a physically fit woman(and Hall's romantic interest) in the film, basically an in-surname-only version of the character.
* HooksAndCrooks: Hall wields a hook to defend himself during the finale.
* MonsterDelay
* NoOSHACompliance: The mill is very clearly a wretched place to work, with stairs that collapse, a machine that can easily thresh somebody to death, and the vermin problem. Justified after a fashion, as it's run by a callous lunatic.
* SanitySlippage: Warwick suffers it after being trapped in the mill's depths.
* SparedByTheAdaptation: [[spoiler:Hall makes it.]]
* TheWorldsExpertOnGettingKilled: [[spoiler:Tucker gets his head smashed by the monster(indirectly).]]
* YouDirtyRat
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.
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!!This film provides examples of:
* AnArmAndALeg: [[spoiler:Carmichael]] gets his arm ripped off after [[HandInTheHole sticking it through a hole in a wall.]] Mind, this is after he and the other workers [[TooDumbToLive know there's a killer monster with them.]]
* BadWithTheBone: One is wielded by Warwick in the film's final act.
* BatOutOfHell: The monster appears to be a Type 2.
* ChekhovsGun: Hall's slingshot.
* CruelAndUnusualDeath: The opening victim falls into machinery and is torn apart. [[spoiler:The monster meets the same fate at the end.]]
* EccentricExterminator: Tucker Cleveland (played by Brad Dourif).
* GenderFlip: Wisconsky, an enormously fat guy in the short story, is a physically fit woman(and Hall's romantic interest) in the film, basically an in-surname-only version of the character.
* HooksAndCrooks: Hall wields a hook to defend himself during the finale.
* MonsterDelay
* NoOSHACompliance: The mill is very clearly a wretched place to work, with stairs that collapse, a machine that can easily thresh somebody to death, and the vermin problem. Justified after a fashion, as it's run by a callous lunatic.
* SanitySlippage: Warwick suffers it after being trapped in the mill's depths.
* SparedByTheAdaptation: [[spoiler:Hall makes it.]]
* TheWorldsExpertOnGettingKilled: [[spoiler:Tucker gets his head smashed by the monster(indirectly).]]
* YouDirtyRat
