Singleton to direct the film in what would be his directorial debut after having previously served as an associate producer on Pet Sematary. King's decision to option Graveyard Shift for a relatively small amount was motivated by the story being a short story as well as the company being small and felt they had interesting enough ideas to warrant as 'Pay as you go' type approach. Dunn who had worked on King projects such as Creepshow 2 and Pet Sematary as a location scout, as well as having helped to establish the Maine Film Office. Stephen King optioned Graveyard Shift for a relatively modest $2,500 to William J. Hall punches out ending his shift and he also punches Wisconsky's shift before leaving the mill. The final shot shows a sign outside the still-open mill, stating the mill is under new management. Hall turns on the cotton picker, tearing the creature apart. The creature follows him and attacks him, only for its tail to be caught in the cotton picker.

Seeing this, Hall flees and manages to escape into the mill. Warwick attacks and injures it, only to be killed and devoured. Warwick flees from a vengeful Hall, only to discover the creature: a large, bat-like rat. Wisconsky attempts to stop him, only to be stabbed by Warwick with a knife. Now insane, Warwick attacks Hall and Wisconsky, engaging Hall in a brutal battle. Wisconsky discovers Warwick with a severe head wound buried beneath a pile of bones. Hall and Wisconsky discover the creature’s lair, a large cavern filled with human and animal bones. Left alone in a complete dark and hearing a strange noise next to him he lights a lighter and encounters the creature who immediately douvours him. A terrified Danson refuses to keep on going and is abandoned by the team. The team abandons him and he's also devoured by the creature. Once putting the hand within he is attacked by the creature who rips his hand. Once inside, he discovers a hole through which they can reach outside. Carmichael discovers a cave passage with the sound of an outside river and encourages the team to follow him. Terrified he runs back up but one of the stairs breaks and he falls to the pool beneath where the creature devoured him. Once downstairs, Brogan, with the hose in his hands discovers a human hand remains on it.

Wisconsky also volunteers, and Warwick forces the remaining workers to go. Hall agrees on the condition that Warwick help him in handling the fire hose. Warwick forces Hall to enter with a fire hose to kill the rats. While Brogan is busy shooting the rats with the fire hose, Hall discovers a trap door leading to an abandoned part of the mill, which he believes to be the nesting ground. Meanwhile Warwick believes the graveyard to be the breeding ground for the rats. Tucker Cleveland is killed when a stone coffin falls on him and buries him alive in the graveyard cave. Nordello falls down the stairs into the basement, where the creature devours her. That night, Nordello breaks in to steal documents showing recommendations for the mill’s closure from Warwick. Warwick assigns Hall, Wisconsky, Carmichael, Danson and Brogan to clean the basement. Stevenson is grabbed by an unseen creature and dragged away. Warwick assigns Stevenson to look through the basement before he assigns a crew to clean it out. Warwick is informed that the basement must be cleaned up to make way for new offices. Hall begins a romantic relationship with his coworker Jane Wisconsky. In the following weeks, Hall is bullied by both his fellow workers Danson, Brogan, and Stevenson, and Warwick, who holds a special hatred for him. Cleveland confides in Hall that he is unable to kill all of the rats and the mill should be shut down. Warwick has hired an eccentric rat exterminator Tucker Cleveland to take care of the rat problem. Warwick has been carrying on numerous affairs with female workers, the latest being Nordello. Widowed drifter John Hall is hired to work in a rat-infested textile mill by the sadistic mill foreman, Warwick. Singleton, written by John Esposito, starring David Andrews, Stephen Macht, Kelly Wolf, and Brad Dourif, and based on the 1970 short story of the same name by Stephen King which was first published in the October 1970 issue of Cavalier magazine, and later collected in King's 1978 collection Night Shift. Graveyard Shift is a 1990 American horror film directed by Ralph S.

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