Last Shift (2014)

You must’ve seen horror movies set in an abandoned house, hospital, asylum or a jungle, the thing that sets this film apart is that this one is set in an almost out of service police station. The police station has been shifted to a new location, all calls have been routed there and all Officer Jessica Loren needs to do during her first shift and first day at the job is just wait for a hazmat truck to pick up the evidence and keep an eye on the police station, although her first shift is the “Last Shift” and she ends up doing much more than she signed up for.

IMDB: 5.4/10

Rotten Tomatoes: 100%

Running Time: 87 minutes

Rating

Story – 6/10

Except for the premise of the film, there nothing much that is different in the movie. The scares are clichéd, stuff moving around on its own, loud noises, lights flickering etc. Although, the good part is that it doesn’t rely on jump scares, at least not much. The story is regular, people died there and now they haunt the place, but it’s the ending that takes the cake, if I had to rate just the ending of the movie it would easily have been an 8/10 but the part before the ending raises too many questions about the decisions the police officer takes while the “ghosts” play peek-a-boo with her.

Acting – 8/10

It’s mostly a one woman show. Juliana Harkavy as Jessica Loren does her part really well and keeps you interested as she fights the supernatural. There are other characters too in the movie, but it’s mostly her vs. the environment.  

Direction – 6/10

Director Anthony DiBlasi doesn’t offer anything new to watch here. You can expect the girl “suddenly” appear below the desk at least 15 seconds before that happens. The make up and the look of the haunters though is really well done and is hard to look at for too long.

To wrap it up, watch this movie for the ending which you probably won’t see coming and for Juliana Harkavy who does a really good job as the frightened but determined rookie police officer.