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Graveyard Shift is a short story by Stephen King, that appears in his Night Shift collection. It was adapted into a feature film of the same name in 1989.

The story

A young drifter has been working at a textile mill in a decrepit Maine town when his boss, a cruel taskmaster, recruits him and others to assist with a massive cleaning effort. The basement of the centuries-old mill has been abandoned for decades, and over the years, a monumental infestation of rats has taken hold. As the cleaning crews progress through the subterranean passages, they are horrified to find that the years of isolation and darkness have triggered disturbing changes in the vermin: most have grown to the sizes of small dogs, while others have grown so large that they have no hind legs. Some have even gained rudimentary flight. They eventually come across a sub-basement, locked from the inside, that harbors something more terrifying and hideous than any of the men could have dreamed - a cow-sized überrat, with no eyes or legs, only breeding more rats.

Trivia

It's possible that the mutation of the rats into bat-like creatures is based on the misconception that bats are flying rodents.

Production

The movie was filmed in Toronto.

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