'Graveyard Shift' is not exempt from some due praise. And coupled with stone wall acting we have a film that feels drawn out about characters we don't know or care about, and a lurking monster that we're never clear on what exactly it is or where it came from. We hardly know the names of any of them let along any part of who they may be aside a "college boy" or "divorced", no time or effort is devoted to making us give a hoot about the people on screen. I don't exaggerate when I say this film has some of the least developed characters to grace cinema. What was a short story basically built on a clever means to an end is over thought (one could easily argue under thought) and milked to make an 80 minute fright flick.
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Scrutinizing 'Graveyard Shift' as an adult, you now understand why Stephen King is reluctant to license his stories for film.
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Now, having long forgotten about the film and being of age to rent/buy see about whatever I want, I indulged a moment of nostalgia and purchased 'Graveyard Shift' on DVD to satisfy a passive 21 year curiosity, and I hate to say, maybe I would been better suited living with the memories of it's well crafted poster hanging on the movie store wall. 'Graveyard Shift' took on a forbidden fruit type feel for me because let's face it, if your parents tell you that you can't watch a movie your desire to see it instantly increases 10 fold. After all, the poster was prominently advertised in the days of my youth and littered in every video rental store I can recall visiting. It works in the book, because you can use your imagination, but to me, that’s never been what Carrie is all about.'Graveyard Shift' is one of those films that I grew up being aware of my entire life, if not having a borderline awe and curiosity for the film. I think focusing on the town’s destruction is a trap the remakes fall into. Destroying the high school is sufficient, because, to paraphrase an old interview with Brian De Palma, when you’re in high school, that is your world. Now, some of those changes were done for budgetary reasons – the $1.8 million budget did not allow for Carrie to destroy the entire town, but you don’t really need that for the movie. As I’ve always said, unless you’re Roman Polanski adapting Rosemary’s Baby word-for-word, you cannot take everything from a novel and put it up on the screen. Cohen and Brian De Palma made from the novel were perfect. Contrary to popular belief, the 1976 film is relatively faithful to it, and I think that the changes screenwriter Lawrence D. It’s especially impressive as a first novel, though we now know it wasn’t the first one he wrote. The novel does have weak spots, which King himself often admits, but Carrie is a really solid psychological/paranormal thriller. What are your thoughts of the novel it’s based on? Many feel that it’s one of King’s weaker efforts (which is only natural, given it was his first published novel). He’s a lot more sensitive and self-aware than that. Tommy Ross, for instance, as played by William Katt, is not your typical jock. High school, and middle school, often feels like a western! And yet there’s room for nuances. I’m not putting down the story in any way – it’s brilliant – but that’s how it is. The characters in Carrie are very divided and simplistic they’re either good guys or bad guys. I really connected with that in a big way when I was that age, because everyone I knew was like that and I myself was like that, and my fascination with this classical story continues even though I have matured. They either love you or they hate you, everything is about them, and they’re very self-absorbed. To expound on something that Nancy Allen said to me, and I’m paraphrasing, the characters in Carrie are very much like real teenagers in that they are somewhat one-dimensional. There are many reasons that Carrie resonates so deeply with me, but a big reason I think the film has lasted so long and has become timeless is that it’s a story that covers pretty much all aspects of teenage behavior. On your website you state that Carrie is your “all-time favorite movie.” What about it resonates with you?
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