Night Shift

Night Shift

Year: 2024

Runtime: 1 h 22 m

Language: English

Directors: Benjamin China, Paul China

HorrorThriller

A woman seeking refuge at a secluded motel finds her sense of security shattered when a figure from her past reappears. As her isolation intensifies, she must confront the unsettling atmosphere of the motel and the lingering trauma that haunts her.

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1

Gwen starts her overnight shift at All Tucked Inn

Gwen begins her first overnight shift at the remote All Tucked Inn. Teddy Miles gives her a quick tour and warns that the night shift can feel long and lonely. She starts to settle in, unaware of the danger lurking in the corridors.

Night shift begins All Tucked Inn – lobby/front desk
2

Strange disturbances disrupt the quiet shift

Lights flicker, doors creak open on their own, and faint noises echo through empty hallways. Gwen wonders if the motel's quiet is hiding something sinister.

Early hours All Tucked Inn – hallways
3

Alice Marsh reveals eerie warnings

Gwen meets Alice Marsh, a teenage guest who ran away from home. Alice claims people walk the halls and vanish when approached, warning that something is watching them.

Early night All Tucked Inn – corridor / Alice's room
4

Disturbances intensify: whispers and a shadowy follower

Gwen receives unsettling phone calls with static and whispers. She also spots a shadowy man following her in his car, a figure tied to her troubled past.

Midnight to late night All Tucked Inn – lobby and parking lot
5

Teddy's evasiveness about the motel's history

Gwen questions Teddy about the motel’s history, but he dodges the questions and withholds details. Her anxiety grows as she senses a hidden layer to the place.

Late night All Tucked Inn – front desk/office
6

The supernatural intensifies: apparitions and visions

The disturbances become overt as ghostly figures appear in the halls and a vision shows a spectral figure emerging from a sinkhole in the empty pool. Gwen grapples with whether this is supernatural activity or a mental breakdown.

Late night All Tucked Inn – hallways and pool area
7

A stranger checks in: confronting Walton Grey's truth

A middle-aged man arrives to check in, and Gwen recognizes him as the man convicted of killing her family who has supposedly escaped. She stalls him, guiding him toward his room while arming herself with a makeshift weapon.

Late night All Tucked Inn – front desk / hallway
8

The killer's confession reveals a shocking truth

The man claims he is not Walton Grey but Gwen's psychiatrist, treating her for paranoia. Walton Grey is shown as a figment, an anagram of Gwen’s name, and Gwen realizes she herself killed her family. The truth crashes down with devastating clarity.

Late night Psychiatrist's office
9

Gwen murders her psychiatrist

Overwhelmed by the revelation, Gwen kills her psychiatrist and cuts out his tongue to silence him. The brutal act seals the traumatic memory that haunts her.

Immediately after Psychiatrist's office
10

Orderlies arrive and fall to Gwen's knives

Waiting outside the office, two orderlies come to check on the psychiatrist. Gwen greets them with bloodied hands, lures them inside, and begins to murder them as well.

Immediately after Psychiatrist's office
11

Alice discovers the carnage and flees

Alice hears strange noises from her own room and checks to find one dead worker and the other in the process of being murdered by Gwen. She runs, pursued through the motel as danger closes in.

Following the murders Alice's room / motel corridors
12

Gwen corners Alice and ends her

Gwen finally catches Alice in the motel and stabs her in the stomach with an axe. The brutal act marks the completion of Gwen's descent into lethal paranoia.

Soon after Motel corridors
13

Teddy returns to find the aftermath by the pool

Teddy arrives at the motel after Gwen's earlier call and goes to see what’s happening. Gwen appears by the pool, invites him to his room, and the scene cuts to black, implying his fate.

Late night All Tucked Inn – pool area
14

One year later: Gwen runs a renovated motel as Cole arrives

Gwen has revitalized the motel with a fresh paint job and repaired the sinkhole and pool. Cole stops by for the night, and Gwen checks him in. As he pays, the ghosts of her murdered family loom behind him and Alice’s ghost stands beside Gwen, signaling the haunting endures.

One year later All Tucked Inn – lobby

Last Updated: October 04, 2025 at 01:17

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