Night Shift

Gwen Taylor [Phoebe Tonkin] takes a job working her first overnight shift at the remote All Tucked Inn motel, stepping into a quiet, isolated night that quickly feels unsettling. The motel’s owner, Teddy Miles [Lamorne Morris], offers a brief tour and bluntly warns that the corridors can stretch endlessly when the world is asleep. Right away, Gwen starts to notice things that don’t add up: lights that flicker without reason, doors that swing open on their own, and faint noises that travel the empty halls as if the building itself is listening.

She soon crosses paths with Alice Marsh [Madison Hu], a teenage guest who ran away from her mother and now hides in the motel’s shadowy corners. Alice insists she’s seen people walking the halls who vanish when they’re approached, turning the quiet place into a stage for something unseen. The two form a wary bond as Gwen tries to stay professional and calm, even as the night grows stranger by the hour.

As the hours pass, Gwen feels watched. A static-laden phone rings with whispers, and a shadowy man appears to be tailing her in a car that never seems to leave the lot. These visions mirror a part of Gwen’s own past, a memory she’s tried to bury. Her attempts to seek reassurance from Teddy are met with evasions about the motel’s history, creating a growing sense of isolation and creeping paranoia. Alice, increasingly frightened, pushes back on the idea that the place is merely haunted, insisting that something malevolent does not want them there.

Over dinner, Gwen opens up about the man she believes killed her family, Walton Grey [Christopher Denham], and she clings to the possibility that he has escaped from prison. The idea that a real threat could be stalking the motel sits beside the more troubling notion that her past might be catching up to her in the present. The atmosphere becomes almost tactile: the air grows cold, the walls seem to breathe, and the boundary between the living and the dead blurs with each passing moment.

Disturbances intensify into genuine apparitions. Ghostly figures drift through the hallways, and Gwen experiences vivid visions—like a figure emerging from a sinkhole in the empty pool—that challenge her grip on reality. Is she witnessing true supernatural activity, or is she being hunted by a human threat, or simply unraveling under the weight of trauma she has carried for years?

The tension spills into real danger when a middle-aged man arrives to check in. Gwen recognizes him as the man convicted of killing her family, recently reported as having escaped custody. She stalls, pretending to verify a room while quietly arming herself with a makeshift weapon from the office. She leads him to his room and, in a brutal moment, stabs him with a pair of scissors. The supposed killer’s admission shatters the line between legend and reality: he reveals that Walton Grey is not real, but a figment of Gwen’s imagination—the name an anagram of her own. He also reveals the devastating truth that Gwen herself was the one who killed her family. Reeling from the confession, Gwen eliminates the doctor who has been treating her paranoia, cutting out his tongue, and leaving a trail of blood and silence in the room.

Outside, two orderlies from the mental hospital arrive to check on the unstable psychiatrist, unaware of the horrors inside. Gwen meets them with blood on her hands, offering to show them inside, and then systematically murders both. Inside her own room, Alice, drawn by the sounds of the chaos, opens the door to a grisly scene: one dead worker and another in the process of being finished off by Gwen. Alice flees, and Gwen pursues, catching her in a brutal confrontation and stabbing her in the stomach with an axe as the motel seems to close in around them.

Teddy returns to the scene, drawn by the earlier call, and finds Gwen standing by the pool in a moment of eerie stillness. He steps closer, and the film fades to black, leaving the question of their fates hanging in the night air—with the implication that Gwen might have murdered him as well.

A year later, the motel has been given new life. Gwen has washed away the old trauma with paint, repaired the sinkhole, and flooded the pool with renewed purpose. Cole [Connor Price], driving to college, stops by for a night and admires the renovated pool. Gwen materializes to check him in, and as he pays, the ghosts of her murdered family loom behind him, with Alice’s ghost also present. When she asks if he’s okay, she offers to guide him to his room, leaving Cole to wonder what other truths might be waiting in the shadows of All Tucked Inn.

Last Updated: October 04, 2025 at 01:17