Monday, December 1, 2008

The Graveyard Shift poster

The Skeletal Spotlight shines this time on:
The "Graveyard Shift" poster


"Yeah, black lung killed me, but I'm still working off my debt to the company store!"

Although the poster seemed to promise coal miner zombies rising from the depths of the unsafe shafts to wreak bloody pick-and-shovel vengence on the tight-fisted company owners who put them at risk, no such luck. Maybe someone will make that movie someday!

As it is, it's a cool poster for a so-so movie about giant monster rats living under an old textile mill. It seems more like an extended episode of Discovery Channel's "Dirty Jobs" than anything else, and I can see our man Mike Rowe digging in and cleaning out the gunk and mutated rats, which aren't as nasty as some things he's had to contend with.

1 comment:

Mr. Karswell said...

Yeah, another cool King short story turned into a crummy feature film... the poster is awesome though. Never thought about it until now but the skull face kinda looks like the tarman zombie from Return of the Living Dead.