graveyard shift and other stories from night shift

The look and feel of these scenes, though gritty and real, never hits the marks of King’s old school-type of storytelling that makes the mill feel less industrial as the characters head further down, more like the description of an ancient Gothic castle with a century or more of secrets lying hidden underneath. Those elements are there, as later in the story the characters go deeper and deeper into this near other world beneath the mill’s structure. There’s a great modern Gothic-type of feeling, the type King is adept at writing following in the footsteps of writers like H.P. Nevertheless, the heat, the dirt, all the Gothic qualities of the mill and more, they have a feel of authenticity.Īll the same, this is also part of the film’s overall problem(s). With only the mill itself, there’s enough authenticity to sell the story even if the story doesn’t quite sell later on its own. The location where they shot was at Bartlettyarns Inc., the oldest woolen yarn mill in the United States, built during 1821. We’ll start on one of the major aspects the film does get right: setting.

Here, I’ll make the case for a remake of the 1990 Ralph S. Without any more preamble, here’s the inaugural column for “Make a Case.”Īnd what better way to do it than starting off with a film based on a short story by one of my writing heroes, Stephen King. This leads to the belief that perhaps some concepts deserve a second chance in other words, they need a remake.

No, it’s more that Father Gore admires many films, but some of those really need a lot of work. Now this isn’t some backhanded way of shitting on an original. “Make a Case,” yes, makes the case for a remake of an older film! In the effort of branching out and doing something new, Father Son Holy Gore is debuting a new column: “Make a Case.” Basically, it’s a simple sort of concept.

Graveyard shift and other stories from night shift