Last Shift

An effective ninety-minute ghost story. DiBlasi exploits that time with every known way a ghost story can scare (phone calls, lights going out, auditory hallucinations, doors opening an closing, scary manifestations, unscary manifestations that actually lead to the scary ones, etc., etc.) without using them in any interesting way (with the exception perhaps of the scene with the torch, that one was good). It’s basically the same as every other ghost story that can end either in this or in that other way, so there aren’t many surprises to talk about. To me this film feels so ambiguously unfinished that the conclusion is either one way or the other. In any case, Last Shift is nothing original that can be a future topic of conversation. As a direct to video release is fine, in fact, compared to similar films it’s quite good thanks to the competent craftsmanship and atmosphere that make it pretty effective. Thumbs up. (2015-09-19)

Judging by the trailer, I went into the film thinking it would be a sectarian massacre in a police station and it is a ghost story, but fortunately not a stupid, colourful and naive one, but a very unpleasant, suffocating and depressing one with a creepy atmosphere throughout the film. A decent one girl show about a beautiful new police officer with some very strange things happening at night in the police station. The film does have a slower start, it doesn't really dazzle for nearly 40 minutes and the constant phone calls and wandering around the station was annoying at times, but by the end it starts to get hot and the fairer sex may well be curled up in bed in a ball. The appearance of that disfigured female villain at the end is delicious. But it's too much of a hallucinogenic psycho flick for me, with a weird ending and unfortunately, for me, no working scares. Good, but not my cup of tea. Story 6/10, Atmosphere 8/10, Gore 3/10, Visuals 6/10, Action 4/10, Entertainment 6/10. (2015-09-20)

The film is definitely excellent in this respect. It's a horror film that is truly a horror. When you watch Last Shift, you'll definitely feel fear, or at least you'll experience that pleasant shiver that comes with watching a good horror movie. It has its flaws, such as in acting and writing, but there aren't that many horror films out there that truly terrify the audience. (2016-03-02)

The lady cop performs well and the boys spent a lot of time tinkering with sound effects (I recommend watching this in the dark with good headphones on), but the choice of the mostly excessively bright environment of the police station is unfortunate and the storyline of the ghostly secret revolve around one thing, over and over until the viewer doesn’t even care about the truth. And in the end, it doesn’t even make much sense. (2016-04-27)