Night of the Reaper

Babysittin' kids with a twist

A review on IMDb says Night of the Reaper is best watched as background noise, and I kind of agree. It's quite slow up until a little over the half way point and for some reason, I didn't much care for the youngish actors / actresses (Jessica Clement) in the movie. Don't know why.

I am on a winning streak finding films with unnoticeable or zero qualities of woke these days, without even reaching back to the 70's. None of that here. I mean, the plot isn't bad, it was made well enough; I find Night of the Reaper just not too interesting. I will however, recommend it to watch if you've got nothing better to do.

Another throwback set in the 80's slasher movie. This one actually does a pretty good job with the setting. The clothes, hair, sets and language
are for the most part pretty good. These 'college' kids for the most party actually look the part with the exception of the female lead. The actress is 30 and while that's not so unusual to see that now in the 80's would of been highly unlikely. The acting is mostly good and the writing is pretty
well done, at least most of it is. This is marketed as a slasher/horror but It's not really. I would call this more of a serial killer/thriller. The last 20 or so minutes throws some hidden twists at you and starts to really stretch believability, this is also where the writing takes some hits as well. The sudden twists make earlier events questionable and there is a lot left unexplained or things that no longer make any sense. It would of worked much better as just a straight up 80's style slasher. Maybe worth a one time watch but I thought the ending really fell apart and dragged the whole thing down. Nothing really woke. There is a female forest ranger. Women were not allowed in the field as forest rangers until 1978 so a female ranger in the 80'swould be very rare but not impossible. It never says exactly what year it is but given some of the set pieces used it would most likely be later 80's