12 Hour Shift

It's a throwaway film that perhaps I shouldn't have enjoyed as much as I did, but Mandy is such a deliciously sour character.

Awash in bloody organs and scheming characters, writer-director Brea Grant's grisly dark comedy 12 Hour Shift ends up being more frenetic than inspired.

It's a spiritedly entertaining bit of unrelenting nastiness, all of it centered on a strong performance from the versatile Bettis that's outstanding.

Grant's script only hints at a sordid past that's never as fleshed out as it needed to be for "12 Hour Shift" to earn the emotional undertow of its ending, but Bettis' clenched face helps fill in the rest.

Grant puts us in the shoes of her harried heroine, while delivering a midnight movie that pulls no punches.

If you don't like the premise of 12 Hour Shift, you're not left with much to hold onto.

As the debate rages on about whether strong female characters in movies should evoke admiration through heroism or just be flawed, human and sometimes downright unlikeable, it's nice to see that Brea Grant created a film that's full of different women.

Thrilling and hilarious, 12 Hour Shift is a marvel of gallows humor that takes the viewer on an exhilarating ride through half a day in the life of a group of captivating, desperate people who make increasingly terrible decisions.

The irony that for a film with a running time of just 88 minutes, watching it feels like you are experiencing every minute of the full twelve hours.

12 HOUR SHIFT is a really charming, morbid little horror comedy thriller that has enough style and a really brilliant cast to be dazzlingly entertaining for its 90 minute runtime.