“Night Shift” - Short Horror Film

Two police officers on-duty for a routine night shift encounter something sinister lurking in the shadows of a bowling alley during a breaking and entering call.
© Postmortem Films
In Association with 9 Studio Productions
* Best Short - Paus Premiere Festival 2021
Credits:
Screenplay by: Pat Baker
Directed by: David Pratt
Cinematography & Editing by: David Pratt
Produced by: Pat Baker
Co-Produced by: Darryl Postley Jr. & Tonya Bredamus
Assistant Producer: Jasmine Reid
Assistant Producer: Jillian Bricker
Assistant Producer: Mollie Green
Assistant Producer: Debbie Beaumier
Technical Assistance by: Steven Barbry
Makeup & SFX by: Nic See
Music by: Troy Maddox
Set Photography: Svetla Pratt
Wanted Art by: Jennifer Nguyen
Starring:
Jace Dakotah - Officer Reynolds
Kevin J. Stone - Officer Singleton
Owen Pratt - Deceased Boy
Jillian Bricker - Barista
Dispatcher (V.O) - Kaitlyn O’Shea
Rachael Cortright - Café Patron #1
Kenny Parada - Café Patron #2
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[@adamgarrick3778]

This is the perfect length for a horror story. Nothing is wasted and it doesn't drag. Great atmosphere and the actors did a fantastic job.

[@TonyaBredamusProducer]

That creepy happy birthday song at the end gets me every time!

[@luiscavalcanti3431]

Stunning photography

[@Rashad_704]

My favorite short film 2021

[@thehorrorcub1699]

Absolutely incredible cinematography and lighting! The acting was phenomenal! I was so creeped out at the end that I almost lost bowl of popcorn!

[@cheesepuffmcgruff30]

Imagine just sending in the rookie while you just chill. XD

[@nicolecates5514]

Fantastic work all around!!! Loved the Easter egg.

[@rickysanchez8709]

Looking for much more. I enjoying it

[@fookin_larry1675]

Gosh I hate how underrated these videos are like you spend so much time on this just for a few views like come on people this is good 😤

[@MrKevinR]

This was a great short film! Very well done!

[@justinstephen405]

So underrated and good horror films need atleast 30 mins of films not 14:41 films so brilliant. Good direction good cast fantastic

[@BuriedHatchetProductions]

Genuinely impressive work. Really high quality stuff in all aspects, great job to all involved!

[@muscleymancomics]

Great backstory, foreshadowing and believable characters. Absolutely perfect. Loved it!

[@umbrellarealm3485]

Honestly, when that single bowling lane light came on... My skin was crawling! Keep the great work coming!

[@Havoc800]

Even I rose my eyes in surprise. That was well done. It's was pretty atmospheric

[@inacupproductions]

Dude another fantastic short, absolutely amazing 🤟🤘🤘🤙🤙

[@alanbryant8457]

Good Work! I like how there's no jump scares. Uneasy Creepy situation. Great acting by all. I can see this easily on episode of Tales from the Crypt.

[@alexkatc59]

- 9-1-1 What is your emergency? - Whom do you call? Ghostbusters!

[@ddpostley1]

Wonderful work! Beyond proud of everyone for what they did! 🔥🔥

[@TheKevinJStone]

This was 🔥🔥🔥!!! It turned out great & creepy!

[@Rashad_704]

My favorite actor

[@darthrevan2410]

Great film an I don't scared easy but then again who would watch this alone in a dark room no lights aloooooooone. 👍👍

[@redparada7756]

amazing! and terrifying! keep up the good work

[@derite4861]

This was such an amazing film. Super scary and awesome cinematography. 5 stars out of 5

[@Witchofthewoods.]

Neither one of them said thank you for the free ☕ coffee and why wasn't the Sgt in there with Reynolds the rookie?! 👀 This was terrifying 😱 & a very good film!

[@misfits1384]

That was epic thank you for this gem!!

[@Das_Kaenguru]

Loved the Ivy Easter Egg at the beginning with the picture 😁

[@RobertIocsa]

Nice one, i like how you build the story, effects and sound track. Keep up the good work

[@Msmary98-98]

This is good! Loving it and I just started watching 😛

[@tuscuu9717]

That was amazing!

[@danielleavillanoza]

bye when he read the balloon and then the kid's face popped up i literally jumped 💀 bpm go 📈

[@RegularDude08]

Yooooooo!!! I actually jumped🤣 Great film!!!!

[@TheKevinJStone]

Thank you for checking this out, bro!!!

[@beththompson2188]

This makes me think about an old bowling alley that I used to go to. It’s been shut down for about 20 years now. It just sits there looking creepy. I couldn’t even imagine going inside that place now.

[@sharonbarker5751]

Everyone did an awesome job! Love it.

[@raedgaj3878]

Oddly satisfying, the kid was great & played his part well, creating an eerie suspense, almost terrifying. Well done..

[@Whoissincere]

Great Job!!!

[@TonyaBredamusProducer]

Great aesthetics 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 It’s a vibe!

[@devendraprasadshrestha8902]

Beautifully designed and built....keep things growing up...

[@George75605]

Outstanding. It packs as much of a punch as a feature length film.

[@joanwallace1373]

Loved it...I couldn't see anything I would change. KUDOS!

[@prestofilms]

The kid was great actor - very sinister!

[@alexkatc59]

There was no child actor in film's credits.

[@rileyboff]

Yo! That's my friend @jacedakotah

[@Tomy_Yon]

This short has more atmosphere of fear than most blockbusters lately. Likable actors, great wrong decision making, I mean it's not just one person without any backup. Kudos to the lighting crew!

[@farristolesome4419]

That was great!!!! I absolutely loved it!!! Good old horror film.

[@donnellm6274]

Nice short! Love horror so I'm definitely here for it! Great job to all! Big ups Kev! I know 2 things......When I walk in that bowling alley, you coming with me AND I'm not leaving that knife (or the cake) behind lol! Great job yall. Checked out Ivy too; was she on the wanted poster at the beginning? If so.....Dooooope!!!

[@postmortemfilmsofficial]

Yep, that was our girl on the poster! All of our films take place within the same “universe”.

[@TheKevinJStone]

Thanks for checking this out bro! 😂😂😂 Okay cool! I see you saw the Easter egg w/ Ivy being on the Wanted poster.

[@jenniferhiggins227]

​@@postmortemfilmsofficial hi just watching this now looks pretty awesome and very freaky would be great for Halloween it giving me chills the errie feel off the building love these movie shorts there just tense and scary without blood

[@kellyc1966]

You seriously deserve an award for this! Brilliant work, brilliant acting, just amazingly brilliant!!! You are impressively talented!

[@susancoddington6393]

Oh man this was great!! 👏👏

[@nancygutkowski1256]

Really so so good ! Great acting !

[@kellyc1966]

Best horror short ever!!!! I didn’t want it to end!!!!!

[@demijour1234]

Awww, he just wanted to have people at his birthday party. He was lonely and he was crying. It's his party, and he'll cry if he wants to Cry if he wants to Cry if he wants to You would cry too if it happened to you

[@georgeenke4937]

Now THAT’s a cool scary short film. Well done.

[@roccgg]

Great story 👏

[@cathydover7750]

Very good film thank you

[@Keeper_91]

Guys this was great! I scared my wife though.. when the bowling ball came out I yelled YOU BIG DUMMY IT IS TIME TO GO

[@tonystokes1119]

That was awesome!👍👍

[@joshuaswisher6748]

Private Security Officer on the uniforms threw me off

[@Havoc800]

I just want to nitpick a few minor things. The uniforms....private security? They kind of take you out of the moment when you see it. The voice for dispatch....oh boy, the effect was bad. Other than those few things, it was fantastic.

[@vanessaconvard3894]

This is my kind of horror short. I cared about the characters. Some weird business went down. I got creeped out. Perfect.

[@aaronhanks3791]

This was outstanding. WAY better than that garbage Alter puts out.

[@horsluva0758]

Acting is fantastic!

[@sarahnicole3206]

If they’re with the sheriffs department how can they’re uniform says Security?

[@horsluva0758]

Great!

[@not_the_ATF]

Great acting, great suspense, and the score is spot on. Only critique is costume/wardrobe; sheriff's department wouldn't be wearing private security uniforms - just a small detail that kind of distracts some people from the film. I know it's minor, but the private security patches are glaringly obvious for a rather long scene in a pretty short film.

[@abubaseet]

I'm about halfway through and I noticed their uniforms say "private security" but they're supposed to be cops. I wonder, did they have to do that for legal reasons or something?

[@postmortemfilmsofficial]

Legal and budget restrictions.

[@anthonymcdonagh9891]

Brilliant 🇨🇮🍀😱🙊🙈🙉

[@bennobenny750]

love the laugh at the end

[@safeenasafeena2782]

Nice work good👍👍👍

[@CatTigress1]

Thank you for making me reach for clean knickers 🥴

[@diontaedaughtry974]

Fantastic

[@raysolorzano2938]

So good of a short that by the end I was wishing it was longer. Nevertheless I had to sub. I look forward to seeing your post in the future. Thank you.

[@teresaregu9832]

I like short horror movie.... Super

[@Redman092000]

So what happens at the end ? Did the black officer stay for the boys party ?

[@frankleah5137]

Having watched this I knew I was watching high quality filming with very good actors. Thank you. Sorry deleted previous comment by accident,

[@postmortemfilmsofficial]

Thanks for the kind words, Frank! I recommend watching our newest film “LURE” if you enjoyed.

[@cobbetlprogrammer1344]

Nice JOB Postmortem Films! Great It's always when Bad things happen to Our Good guys in Blue!) Cheers!

[@12mschristina]

Open positions available now

[@postmortemfilmsofficial]

Best comment award ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

[@ashleysmashley1674]

This looks like the same universe as a previously view horror short. This one had some teen girls that ate some teen boys, I do believe one of those girls is on the Wanted poster at the beginning

[@Santouuryu]

Congratulations! Tense and no need to false jump scare us. I love jump scares, absolutely fucking hate cheap fake ones. I would pay to watch a full length.

[@kevinriley1249]

Good movie but in reality a police officer would not sit back in his vehicle on a break in call and allow his partner to go in alone especially when he says the door is open.

[@escorpio2182]

This mini horror 🎥, IS DA 💣💣! 🔪🔪🔪🔪

[@GrEeNEyEz197]

That was actually really good I like that that was pretty cool so what did the ghost boy do kill them...

[@michaelbidegain1455]

No more bowling for me great story

[@miriamowens203]

Oh shit

[@loeganclifton]

No way! I literally live like 20 mins from this bowling alley.

[@angieg4447]

When you work a job like this never ever say out loud, "Looks like it's gonna be a slow night." Because you basically jinx your whole evening until day breaks.

[@sweettea3406]

Super 💞💞💞💞👍💓💞💞💞

[@eddiemanuel3946]

Suppose to back up your fellow officer and where was backup sleeping on the side of the road or at a donut or coffee shop ? Who agrees with me !!!

[@commandericeman8588]

I thought the same thing. I found it surreal to watch as one officer sat in the vehicle while the other investigated alone. They should've conducted a perimeter sweep together then made entry together; then sweept the place together. No one goes anywhere alone is the rule of thumb in situations like these. The rookie's flashlight was laughable. Need more lumens bro. The first duty of a flashlight is so an officer can see WTF is going on at a distance in low light conditions. The second duty of the flashlight is to blind and or stun a suspect. What's more, the idea is to carry a flashlight that is large enough (so you can get a good grip on it) to pull double duty as a bludgeoning weapon in a pinch; one that can gouge an unruly suspect's eye and or bust out a car window. Secondly, he was holding his flashlight in the wrong hand. Notice the long and clumsy transition that it took for him to move the flashlight from his dominant hand to his non-dominate hand. If a perpetrator had jumped out of the shadows at him and opened fire or lunged at him with a blade or blunt object they could've closed the distance with time to spare. The senior officer with his finger on the trigger made me cringe. That's how you end up with an accidental discharge. It only takes .25 seconds to move your finger from the slide to the trigger well; hence there was no need for his finger to be on the trigger when there was no target to engage. Also I found it weird how the senior officer sat down in the coffee shop and didn't choose a seat where he wasn't facing the door or some other seat which gave him a tactical advantage if any hostile entered the premises.

[@iamterriffic7041]

@@commandericeman8588 Also their uniforms said Private Security Officer. We're they moonlighting? 😂😂😉👮👮

[@brandonhardin2609]

Not bad at all!!!

[@deadinside8705]

All I can think of is "A body has been discovered"

[@user-xh2up8ny6i]

of course a brain would cut all the lights on.

[@triplethevibe]

⭐⭐⭐ The start of it was kinda bootleg but towards the end it made up for it confused on how they private security but police at the same time anyway it was good nice jumpscare

[@atimidbirb]

YOU MOFOS REFERENCES FIVE NIGHTS AT FREDDY´S AYYYYYY

[@krishanubanerjee6955]

Night Shift? More like *Death Shift* !!!

[@Godzilladad]

How come you guys couldn't get police officer uniforms??

[@commandericeman8588]

Budget restraints? Legal issues?

[@karajohnson572]

“If you see anything, call for back up.” Sees multiple sketchy skit + a kid with a severed arm and doesn’t say anything

[@rickyray2794]

Wait.. are they police or security? I know in some communities like South Africa the private security companies do a lot of the actual policing but this sounds like the USA

[@ericsoetaert1413]

They wouldn't turn on the lights and siren

[@brey1720]

Creeeeepy 😰

[@kareneastman9695]

What's happening now???.😲Creepy and strange.That is it. Just jog out of that Bowling alley.I hope his name is not Owen.I doubt that Sherriff murdered any one or animal.😞Poor guy.Owen's a kid?YOur gonna get it.Leave.I knew it.😞😲

[@deeprollingriver52]

Dude. Turn the lights on.

[@deathbycake7637]

Silent Hill 2 the bowling alley.

[@anthonymcgee2776]

This is a good short film but buy observation the bloody footprint looks like a grown man's foot i was just state the obvious

[@Amin4831]

Cheesy