Last Shift

Last Shift

Year: 2014

Runtime: 87 mins

Language: English

Director: Anthony DiBlasi

MysteryHorrorHorror

Rookie police officer Jessica Loren is assigned to the last shift at a police station scheduled for closure, tasked with waiting for a hazmat crew to collect biomedical evidence. Despite being ordered not to leave, Jessica discovers the station houses a terrifying presence—the ultimate embodiment of evil and his devoted followers. Alone and facing a supernatural threat, she must defend herself in a dangerous and unexpected battleground.

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Jessica Loren, a rookie police officer on her first assignment, is ordered to take the last shift at a police station slated to close for good. Her mother pleads with her not to take the job, recalling that her father, another officer, was killed in the line of duty. After reassuring her mother, Loren reports for duty and is led on a brief tour by her commanding officer, Hank Stone as Grip Cohen, who explains that a HAZMAT team will collect evidence that’s difficult to dispose of and that she is not allowed to leave her post. Before he ends the tour, he gives Loren his phone number for emergencies.

Loren settles into a tense, uneventful night until a knock echoes through the precinct. She confronts a homeless man in the hallway, who urinates on the floor and stubbornly refuses to leave. Loren forces him out, and he vanishes from view. Simultaneously, she receives a string of distress calls from Monica, a figure tied to a terrifying cult; the police dispatcher confirms that all emergency calls have been rerouted to the new station. The sense of unease grows as faint noises, flickering lights, and unseen presences begin to haunt the empty rooms.

The unease intensifies when Loren notices doors and chairs shifting on their own and hears voices singing in the shadows. A loiterer named Marigold, Natalie Victoria, tells her a shocking truth: the public story that the cult was killed at their residence is false; instead, they committed suicide in the station exactly one year to the day. Marigold’s quiet revelation is followed by a haunting lullaby that Loren had heard earlier, echoing through the corridors as if the station itself remembers.

paranormal disturbances reveal that the cult worships the king of Hell, a being also named Paimon. Before their mass suicide, Paymon, the charismatic leader, threatened to return and lay waste to everything. Officer Ryan Price, Matt Doman, arrives, and Loren accuses him of orchestrating a hazing ritual. He insists he is there to check on her and mentions that he served with her father. He also confirms that the cult was captured alive and that her father’s death in the pursuit would make him proud of her. When Price leaves, Loren glimpses a bullet wound in the back of his head, and he abruptly disappears.

As visions of the cultists and their victims intensify, Loren phones Cohen and admits she cannot finish the shift unless the pressure lets up, only to be met with a threat of termination that makes her keep going. The dispatcher then reveals that Monica was the final victim of Paymon’s cult and died more than a year ago. A living member of the Paymon cult takes Loren hostage, only to die by suicide in front of her. Loren attempts to leave, but the glass doesn’t break when she fires at the window.

Her dead father’s voice calls to her again, urging justice, and she returns to the holding cell to find the homeless man hanged. The warning comes once more as cult members flood the station, and Loren fights them off, killing several of Paymon’s followers. As she fires the last shot, Cohen fires a shot from behind, knocking Loren to the ground. In a fleeting moment of clarity, she realizes that she has murdered the entire HAZMAT team. Cohen calls for medical help, and Loren is surrounded by the apparitions of Paymon and his cult as she succumbs to her wounds, their heads bowed in judgment and sorrow. The station’s spirits close in, leaving an ending that lingers with the consequences of a night that began as an assignment and ended in a haunting reckoning.

  • Ghost Girl appearances are carried by several performers, including Amber Watson, Skyler Poiley, Danielle White, Ashley Wilson, Mona Pirnot, and Lindsi Jeter. Their presence threads through the station’s corridors, amplifying the sense that the Paymon cult’s reach endures beyond death. For Monica, the role is voiced by Erica Lea Shelton, anchoring the ghostly memories that haunt Loren’s final hours. And the cult’s enigmatic leader is Joshua Mikel as John Michael Paymon, whose menace looms over every whisper in the hallways. The closing moments leave a chilling reminder of the delicate line between duty and danger, and the price of uncovering a force that refuses to stay buried.

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