Rating: R
Genre:
Horror
Theatrical Release: 10/26/1990(USA)
Release Date: 09/15/2009
Flags: Graphic Violence, Not For Children, Profanity
Distributor/Studio: Paramount
One of countless
Stephen King adaptations, this take on one of the author's
Night Shift tales is set in a Maine textile mill whose overbearing manager (
Stephen Macht) finds himself in a tight spot when county inspectors crack down on his less-than-safe operation after a fatal accident involving a picking machine. He rounds up a few financially-desperate locals -- including drifter
David Anderson, the film's nominal hero -- into a rag-tag crew to clean up the nightmarish, rat-infested lower levels of the decrepit building. Working their way through the labyrinthine tunnels beneath the mill, the crew encounters a rat's nest far beyond what their foreman had imagined, with a gigantic, man-eating monster rodent nesting at its center.
~ Cavett Binion, All Movie Guide