As the debate rages on about whether strong female characters in movies should evoke admiration through heroism or just be flawed, human and sometimes downright unlikeable, it's nice to see that Brea Grant created a film that's full of different women.

| Feb 7, 2024

Thrilling and hilarious, 12 Hour Shift is a marvel of gallows humor that takes the viewer on an exhilarating ride through half a day in the life of a group of captivating, desperate people who make increasingly terrible decisions.

| Dec 27, 2022

The irony that for a film with a running time of just 88 minutes, watching it feels like you are experiencing every minute of the full twelve hours.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 12, 2022

12 HOUR SHIFT is a really charming, morbid little horror comedy thriller that has enough style and a really brilliant cast to be dazzlingly entertaining for its 90 minute runtime.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Apr 25, 2022

For one, Brea Grant pays tribute to the 90s and perfectly captures its essence. At the same time, she understands the turmoil in hospitals and provides audiences with an invigorating and adventurous story about one hell of a search for a kidney.

| Feb 11, 2022

12 Hour Shift is a film that revels in its escalating insanity but can never seem to find the momentum to match, perpetually stuck in third-gear.

| Jun 5, 2021

A little too uneven to be a laugh-out-loud riot or a raw-emotioned tale of slapstick survival, 12 Hour Shift is a 20 cc shot of absurdity, but one that didn't quite hit the main vein.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Mar 1, 2021

Brea Grant's 12 Hour Shift is an original, creative jaunt down the dark, bloody road of organ harvesting, drug addiction, and self-serving decisions.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Feb 26, 2021

12 Hour Shift is a bananas B-horror that makes me envy anyone who can see it after midnight with a crowd.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Feb 24, 2021

Bloody and deadpan farce about a single night in an Arkansas hospital, featuring murder, drugs, a fake nurse, and a refreshing musical interlude.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Feb 13, 2021

Strikes an exemplary tone, keeping the callous opportunism at work in its characters' lives in balance with heaps of droll dark comedy.

| Feb 5, 2021

Though it won't be everyone's cup of tea, it certainly succeeds in doing something different.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 29, 2021

Brea Grant's 12 Hour Shift is what happens when a comedy of errors, a game of cat and mouse, and some exquisite weirdness make a film baby. It's a dark comedy swaddled in a neo-noir blanket that doesn't feel at all like a sophomore feature.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jan 27, 2021

The more outlandish it gets the better - when punches fly, gore spurts and vending machines topple, it's bloody good fun.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 25, 2021

Goofy humour and cheap production values turn this Dixie horror into frothy, throwaway farce.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jan 21, 2021

It's a throwaway film that perhaps I shouldn't have enjoyed as much as I did, but Mandy is such a deliciously sour character.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 19, 2021

A chain of events in a 'comedy of errors' style, with one violent, ill-thought-out and potentially exposing act following hard upon the last.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 2, 2021

Overall, 12 Hour Shift is a wonderfully gross and grimy little crime film, made and led by brilliant women, that offers no judgement and a gruesomely good time at the (home) movies.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 21, 2020

Awash in bloody organs and scheming characters, writer-director Brea Grant's grisly dark comedy 12 Hour Shift ends up being more frenetic than inspired.

| Oct 21, 2020

Suffers a little from an oddly-paced plot that feels too low-energy for the type of organ-dealing madness that actually occurs in the film's plot. But when it does pick up the pace and dial up the stakes, it's offbeat, zany and a lot of fun.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Oct 21, 2020