2020 · comedy · crime · horror
12 Hour Shift
Directed by Brea Grant1h 28m2020
It's 1999 and over the course of one 12-hour shift at an Arkansas hospital, a junkie nurse, her scheming cousin and a group of black market organ-trading criminals start a heist that could lead to their collective demise.
Our read: 12 Hour Shift (2020) reads as a neutral, breathless, inventive comedy · crime · horror entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Neutral, breathless, measured comedy / crime, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, cold.
- kinetic
- intense
- cold
- intimate
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