Stephen King’s Graveyard Shift Releases On 4K Blu-Ray This Week - Save 30% At Amazon

Stephen King's Graveyard Shift on 4K Blu-ray

$31.49 (was $45) | Releases February 25

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Collectors of Stephen King adaptations can add one of the author's lesser-known stories to their shelves this week. Graveyard Shift, the 1990 horror movie adapted from a short story King penned in 1970, releases on 4K Blu-ray and standard 1080p Blu-ray on February 25. Amazon is offering a 30% discount on both editions, so fans can order Graveyard Shift on 4K Blu-ray for $31.49 (was $45) or just $21 (was $30) on Blu-ray.

King fans will be happy to learn this new "special edition" is packed with bonus features, including interviews with the cast and crew, new audio commentary, and other exclusive content.

Stephen King's Graveyard Shift on 4K Blu-ray

$31.49 (was $45) | Releases February 25

The 4K edition also comes with the standard Blu-ray disc, the film's bonus features are spread across both discs. If you don’t need the 4K format, the film is also available as a standard Blu-ray.

Graveyard Shift, the short story, originally appeared in Cavalier Magazine in 1970 before being included in King's excellent story collection, Night Shift, in 1978. Set in a small town in Maine, it focuses on an abandoned textile mill that has just reopened. However, it's quickly plagued by a series of mysterious deaths, with workers being killed in the middle of the night.

The story and adaptation employ similar themes and plot devices as other King tales from that time. The workers discover a haunting subterranean system of tunnels underneath the factory--and what lurks inside could be the culprit for their coworkers’ deaths.

If you're interested in reading the short story first, you can pick up a trade paperback copy of Night Shift for $10.49 (was $18).

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Graveyard Shift Bonus Features

Here’s a look at the bonus features that come Graveyard Shift. Note that the 4K edition comes with both lists below, whereas the standard Blu-ray edition is specifically the content on Disc 2.

Disc 1 - 4K Blu-ray:

• New 4K scan of original camera negative
• Dolby Vision & HDR10
• New audio commentary by film historians Howard S. Berger and Marc Edward Heuck
• 5.1 surround and lossless 2.0 audio
• Optional English subtitles

Disc 2 - Blu-ray:

• New HD Master built from the 4K scan of original camera negative
• New audio commentary by film historians Howard S. Berger and Marc Edward Heuck
• Interview with director Ralph S. Singleton
• Interview with actor Stephen Macht
• Interview with actress Kelly Wolf
• Interview with actor Robert Alan Beuth
• Theatrical trailer
• 5.1 surround and lossless 2.0 audio
• Optional English subtitles

Graveyard Shift received negative reviews when it released in 1990. It probably didn't help that expectations for movies based on Stephen King stories were fairly high due to recent successes, including The Running Man and Pet Sematary, both of which released in 1989. And not long before those hits a King adaptation became a massive critical and commercial success. The 1987 coming-of-age film Stand by Me (adapted from the novella The Body) remains one of the most beloved King movies today. It was directed by Rob Reiner and nominated for the Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay.

Graveyard Shift was also quickly overshadowed by the TV miniseries adaptation of It and the theatrical debut of Misery, both of which released roughly a month after Graveyard Shift. Like Stand By Me, Misery was directed by Rob Reiner. Bolstered by brilliant performances from stars Kathy Bates and James Caan, Misery is widely regarded as one of the best movies adapted from King's work. Bates won the Oscar for Best Actress for her portrayal of Annie Wilkes.

If you're a big Stephen King fan, though, even the "bad" adaptations have some memorable moments and often contain some fun callbacks to his other work. It's been 35 years since Graveyard Shift released in theaters, so it'll be interesting to see if contemporary King fans arrive at the same consensus as viewers did back then.

And if you're interested in watching more Stephen King movies, we've put together a list of 4K Blu-ray editions of some of his films below. Many of the movies listed below are steeply discounted, including Limited Edition Steelbook versions of the aforementioned Stand By Me and The Running Man.

For even more reading, check out The Gwendy Trilogy that’s on sale for $15.39 (was $22), or preorder the upcoming Never Flinch novel or The End of the World As We Know It short story anthology.

More Stephen King 4K Blu-Ray Deals

• Carrie (1976) Limited Edition Steelbook -- $29 ($40)
• Carrie (1976) Collector's Edition -- $30 ($37)
• Carrie (2013) Collector's Edition -- $24 ($40)
• Christine 35th Anniversary Edition -- $17 ($31)
• Creepshow Limited Edition Steelbook -- $30.73 ($40)
• Creepshow Collector's Edition -- $23.49 ($37)
• Cujo -- $23.14 ($40)
• Doctor Sleep -- $22.16 ($35)
• The Green Mile -- $17.34 ($20)
• It: Chapter One -- $17 ($35)
• It: Chapter Two -- $16 ($25)
• Misery -- $22.78 ($40)
• The Mist 4-Disc Collector's Edition -- $20.49 ($35)
• Needful Things -- $21.41 ($40)
• Pet Sematary -- $18.30 ($26)
• The Running Man Limited Edition Steelbook -- $21 ($31)
• The Running Man -- $20.62 ($26)
• The Shawshank Redemption -- $22 ($34)
• The Shining -- $25 ($35)
• Stand By Me -- $17.09 ($31)
• Stand By Me Limited Edition Steelbook -- $25.19 ($46)

If you want to read some of Stephen King's work, the newly released omnibus edition of The Gwendy Trilogy is on sale for only $15.39 (was $22) at Amazon. You can also preorder a hardcover edition of Stephen King's next novel, Never Flinch, at Amazon for $22.40 (was $32) ahead of its May 27 release. Fans of King's doorstopper of a novel The Stand may be interested in the upcoming anthology The End of the World as We Know It: New Tales of Stephen King's The Stand. The 800-page short story collection will be published on August 19. set in the same world