[WGH]

What's so funny about organ trafficking? Writer and director Brea Grant thinks everything is. The movie is set at a small hospital in 1998 Arkansas during a 12-hour overnight shift and involves a harried addicted nurse, her not too bright 'cousin', assorted patients both living and dead, real bad men, and a couple of kidneys during a night of escalating madness and mayhem. Will our heroine survive?

12 Hour Shift is not a creepy, scary film but still has plenty of blood and gore to satisfy Halloween night movie fans. The laughs are low key coming from the broadly acted characters and bloody situations, imagine if the Marx brothers did horror and you get the idea.

I have noticed an exciting trend, women are directing more and more films. 12 Hour Shift is Brea Grant's first main stream film as writer and director, she has also been acting in TV and movies since 2007.

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[MttBsh]

Organ trafficking is a serious problem and making light of it seems to me to be in pretty poor taste. I also have to wonder why anyone would see the blood spattered face on the movie ad as a promise of good entertainment. Am I the only one who finds this disturbing and not at all funny? Have I lost my sense of humor?

Since Rotten Tomatoes gives the movie the thumbs up and it advances the trend of women directed films i guess I need to find a way to like it.