Last Shift is an Underrated Horror Film That Deserves More Recognition

I finally got to watch this film in the month of October, and I was not expecting to feel so creeped out by the end of the movie. It's a creative masterpiece that is so overlooked. I can't believe this movie is barely even talked about. 

I had constantly been told in the past that this movie was really good by several horror fans, and I'm so glad I finally got to check it out. It's a psychological horror story that takes a huge dark turn throughout the film, and the ending felt like such a slap in the face. 

I wish the majority of horror movies had the balls to film messed up horror stories like this.

We follow the story of a cop named Jessica Loren who gets the last shift in an old police station.

Loren is asked to watch the old police station, and wait during the last shift for the hazmat team to arrive to collect several items that are related to biochemical evidence. This shift immediately turns into a total nightmare, as she starts to experience so many horrific events that don't make any sense.

She arrests a homeless man who breaks into the police station, and is somehow able to break in whenever she locks up the station. She is receiving mysterious phone calls from a woman named Monica Young, and she is seeing things that are making her question her own sanity. 

She even runs into a cop who personally knew her father, who was killed during the attempted capture of a cult that was responsible for multiple murders. The cop exposes his own wounds to her that he had received by the cult, when he leaves the station, scaring Jessica. 

Jessica then discovers a darker secret about the old station. 

The three cult members who were arrested and brought to the station ended their lives in their cells.

Jessica finds out that the leader of the cult, including two other cult members, had ended their lives within the old station. Their souls became trapped in the station, and now poor Jessica was being forced to take on the last shift, on the one-year anniversary of the cult's deaths. 

Jessica refuses to believe what is happening, and even after she learns that Monica Young was a past victim of the cult, and witnesses two possible real deaths of the homeless man she arrested and another cult member, she continues to deny everything that is taking place around her. 

Once Jessica has had enough of what she believes are hallucinations, she attempts to run out of the station, but cannot escape. She receives a phone call from her father, telling her that she must fight and end the remaining cult members who are about to break into the station. She kills the three cult members who break into the station, and then she is suddenly shot by the officer who had her take on the last shift in the beginning of the film. 

It is revealed that Jessica had killed the three-hazmat people instead.

I was really hoping that the movie wouldn't go down such a dark route, but I knew that Jessica was already far too gone by this point. The psychological torture became too much for her, and the vulnerability of her father's connection to the cult led to her being tricked and murdering three innocent people. 

The film ends with the cult leader and his two cult members taking her soul. 

I thought this was such a dark ending. I believe the rest of the spirits she was seeing throughout the film were trapped with the cult, since they had been killed by them. 

Poor Jessica became their next victim, and in a sad way, she would now be with her dead father. 

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Thank you for reading!

Emy Quinn