Graveyard Shift (also known as Stephen King's Graveyard Shift) is a 1990 American horror film directed by Ralph S. 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[4] which was first published in the October 1970 issue of Cavalier magazine, and later collected in King's 1978 collection Night Shift. Graveyard Shift was released in October 1990. The film received negative reviews from critics.