#NightOfTheReaper 2025

Shudder gives us this 80s babysitter stalker movie that starts out promising, but takes a quick turn into a boring and convoluted revenge plot.

The 80s throwback genre is getting tired. I know it's a great way to write out cell phones and modern tech that's not conducive to horror story-telling, but enough is enough already! Here, we have VHS tapes that are integral to the plot, which relates to a contrived scheme to antagonize certain parties and present us with an unexpected twist that leads us to a generic motive with underwhelming execution.

It's not all bad, though. The film looks okay, it's cruel, the villain design is nice, and the tape stuff is okay. I think the movie would be better if it didn't try to have a hip story and was more shallow. The scenes where the killer is fucking around with the victims and re-arranging things should have been the whole movie. What we ended up with is something I just wasn't feeling.