"12 Hour Shift" Review

12 Hour Shift is a comedy-horror/thriller directed by Brea Grant and starring Angela Bettis as drug-addicted nurse Mandy, who is prone to stealing medication from her patients to get high... and also has a side gig of being a murderer who kills some of her patients to steal their organs and sell them to a trafficker. However, when a bag of organs go missing and the problems at the hospital begin to pile up, Mandy and Regina are both forced to go to extreme, bloody, and plain hilarious lengths to save their necks amid the chaos at the hospital.

The film is uproariously funny despite the blood and the brutality on display, with all manner of unexpected twists all based on the fact that Mandy and Regina are generally unscrupulous and willing to resort to very illegal and unethical means to obtain a kidney for the trafficker, with Regina also being quite  ditzy, and causing all kinds of mayhem as she desperately tries to get a kidney from a patient without being noticed, with the only problem being that she doesn't actually know what a kidney looks like. The wacky hijinks that the leads get up to so they can continue their organ trafficking juxtaposed against the horrific nature of what they're doing makes for some genuinely laugh-out-loud moments where you can never guess just what will happen next, resulting in a lot of "what can they do to get out of this mess?" moments with some surprising results. The characters are pitch-perfect, with Mandy's seen-it-all boredom making for a wonderful contrast with the bumbling yet deadly Regina, played to pitch-perfect precision by Angela Bettis and Chloe Farnworth to elicit the maximum amount of laughs.

What more can I say? 12 Hour Shift is a tightly-paced comedy horror/thriller with loads of unexpected twists, darkly macabre laughs, and a pair of great lead performances, all set against a busy and chaotic night at the hospital. A definite recommendation from me!