the queen rat) into the upper levels of the mill where she gets her tail caught in a thresher of some sort, which reels it in to be crushed twixt its rolling pins. The movie, on the other hand, ends on a semi-happy note with Hall luring the “ magna mater” (“great mother”, i.e. Hall, trying to get away, ends up being overwhelmed by the encroaching rats and the rat-bat hybrid creatures. Hall forces Warwick into her den where he is killed. She has no wings and also lacks hind-legs. The monster in the book however, only appears once and seems more like Jabba the Hut, a giant hairless slug-like creature, reclining in her lair. This is the model for the monster of the film, which seems to be a giant rat-bat creature that slinks around the mill, picking off the mill workers one by one. The monster of the “Graveyard Shift” (1990). Also, I just have to say that I lived in New England for 8 years and never met anyone with an accent like the one actor Stephen Macht used for the character of Warwick. Even at the movie’s pivotal moment when his co-worker / love interest Jane (Wisconsky, who in the King story is a whiny, fearful man who like the other characters of the tale is only ever referred to by his surname) is fatally stabbed by Warwick as she attempts to pull him off of Hall, after he has pinned him down on a pile of human bones in the monster’s lair Hall just holds her briefly in his arms then leaves her body to the vermin of the mill without a backward glance as he makes a run for it. He does nothing to defend or redeem himself, so why should we care what happens to him? Also, actor David Andrews’ portrayal of the story’s anti-hero is lackluster at best. Another weakness in the film adaptation is the decision to make Hall an outsider who is bullied by the other mill workers at the local eatery.
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