12 Hour Shift (2020)

In a local hospital, a drug-addicted nurse and her small organ trafficking business “partners” find themselves in dire straights when a transaction goes awry.

Should anything ever happen to you, and you end up in the hospital, that is the nurse you need… NOT! And that applies to the rest of the staff, police, family, patients, villains, and every other caricature that decides to appear on screen and lower the IQ to the extreme. But don’t cast any stones yet…

Writer/director Brea Grant spent every penny she had in her pocket, and it wasn’t that many, very wisely. She knew exactly what kind of film she wanted to make, and she did. 12 Hour Shift is (almost) as funny as it intended to be, maintaining the horror level to the point that it doesn’t overshadow the main genre – comedy. Editing is the first indicator of this, as it effectively controls the pace and rhythm and keeps the story’s development very tight. Angela Bettis, David Arquette (also the main producer), Chloe Farnworth (who you wouldn’t believe is British), Nikea Gamby-Turner, and the rest of the cast are meant to be funny, and they most certainly are. Amazing chemistry between the actors that will make you, at times, laugh out loud.

Now… I will say that producer/cinematographer/composer Matt Glass knew what he was doing while composing the film’s score. I can see how the soundtrack could come across as annoying, accompanying every sequence of the film, but it serves a purpose. And that is none other than to exaggerate something far-fetched already. The story’s level of implausibility is sky-high, the plotholes are lurking in every corner, and the acting is over the top… DELIBERATELY!

I really recommend you watch it. We live in abhorrent times where death is the first news. 12 Hour Shift is a horror that will make you laugh and, certainly, for just less than an hour and a half, will make you forget about what’s happening out there. Grant’s intentions are noble and I for one admire her for making such a film.

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