Stephen King took you to the edge with The Shining and Pet Sematary. This time... he pushes you over.
John Hall is a drifter who wanders into a small town in Maine. He needs a job and decides to seek employment at the community's top business: a large textile mill. He is hired to work the "graveyard shift" -- from around midnight to dawn -- and, along with a few others, he is charged with cleaning out the basement. This task strikes the workers as simple enough, but then, as they proceed deeper underground, they encounter an unspeakable monstrosity intent on devouring them all.
David Andrews
John Hall
Kelly Wolf
Jane Wisconsky
Stephen Macht
Warwick
Andrew Divoff
Danson
Vic Polizos
Brogan
Brad Dourif
The Exterminator
Robert Alan Beuth
Ippeston
Ilona Margolis
Nordello
Jimmy Woodard
Carmichael
Jonathan Emerson
Jason Reed
Minor Rootes
Stevenson
Kelly L. Goodman
Warwick's Secretary
Susan Lowden
Daisy May
Joe Perham
Mill Inspector
Dana Packard
Millworker
Skip Wheeler
Millworker
Richard France
Millworker
Anne Rooney
Millworker
Raissa Danilova
Millworker
Emmet Kane
Exterminator's Assistant
Director
Ralph S. Singleton
Writers
John Esposito, Stephen King
Brian Banks
Original Music Composer
Anthony Marinelli
Original Music Composer
Peter Stein
Director of Photography
Jim Gross
Editor
Randy Jon Morgan
Editor
Gary Wissner
Production Design
Sierbahnn
5/27/2026
Does not deliver Stephen King meanders. We all know this. He takes his sweet time building tension, characters, and delivering the point. Sometimes that works. This story does not. In text, this is tedious, on the screen, it is just boring. The characters are not engaging enough to captivate, the tension is lacking and the fear is never truly present. It is too remote, too predictable, too sane. There are far better movies of Mr King's to watch.
