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#7,308 All-time worldwide
#87 1990 releases

Movie profile

Graveyard Shift

1990 · 89 min · Paramount Pictures

Horror
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Box office snapshot

Financial performance

Reference figures based on available reported data.
Worldwide gross $11.6M
Budget $10.5M
Gross minus budget $1.1M
ROI 1.10x

Domestic gross

$5.6M

Estimated from worldwide gross

International gross

$6.0M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Opening weekend

$2.4M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Ranking context

Where Graveyard Shift ranks

Positioned across the all-time chart, release year, studio, franchise and genre indexes where enough mapped data exists.
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All-time worldwide #7,308 All-time chart position of 12,922 titles Compared with every rankable movie in the current worldwide dataset. 1990 releases #87 Release-year chart position of 205 titles Ranked against movies released in 1990. Studio / company #288 Paramount Pictures of 424 titles Position inside the mapped Paramount Pictures movie set. Primary genre #710 Horror of 1,240 titles Genre context based on the first mapped genre on this profile.

Nearby worldwide ranks

Comparable titles immediately around this movie by reported worldwide gross.

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Quick answer

How did Graveyard Shift (1990) perform at the box office?

High confidence

Graveyard Shift (1990) earned a reported $11.6M worldwide against a reported $10.5M production budget. Its gross-minus-budget figure is about $1.1M. The current gross-to-budget multiple is 1.10x. In this database it currently ranks #7,308 in the current all-time worldwide chart set and #87 among 1990 releases.

Worldwide gross
$11,582,891
Budget
$10,500,000
Gross minus budget
$1,082,891
ROI
1.10x
Source: TMDb. Last updated: Jul 13, 2026. View source Gross-minus-budget is not studio net profit. It excludes marketing, distribution fees, revenue splits, tax incentives and later home/streaming revenue.

Synopsis

Story

John Hall is a drifter who wanders into a small town in Maine. He needs a job and decides to seek employment at the community's top business: a large textile mill. He is hired to work the "graveyard shift" -- from around midnight to dawn -- and, along with a few others, he is charged with cleaning out the basement. This task strikes the workers as simple enough, but then, as they proceed deeper underground, they encounter an unspeakable monstrosity intent on devouring them all.

Movie facts

Production details

Release date
Oct 26, 1990
Production
Paramount Pictures, Graveyard Productions, JVC
Countries
US, JP

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Studio / production companyParamount Pictures Release year chart1990 box office Genre chartHorror

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Why this movie matters

Released in 1990, Graveyard Shift is positioned in this dataset as a Horror title from Paramount Pictures. Its box office profile shows that available worldwide gross is $11.6M, reported production budget is $10.5M, gross-minus-budget is $1.1M, ROI is 1.10x. For comparison, it currently sits #7,308 all-time in the current chart set and #87 among 1990 releases. Streaming availability should be checked against the selected United States region because provider rights can change.

AI-generated contextual summary based on available movie, genre, ranking and box office data. It does not replace official distributor notes or financial reporting.
Data noteGross minus budget is not studio net profit. It excludes marketing, distribution fees, revenue splits, tax incentives and downstream revenue. Domestic, international and opening weekend figures marked as estimated are modelled estimates.