Night of the Reaper begins with a familiar slasher movie scenario: a babysitter being stalked by a killer. The masked menace puts on a big show of toying with her, leaving creepy notes that almost feel like a prank until the danger gets all too real.

It’s a freaky opening sequence that signals director and co-director Brandon Christensen (Still/Born, Z ) is well familiar with the horror tropes his movie is leaning into—and you can tell he knows his audience will pick up on them too.

Night of the Reaper ‘s main reference point is, obviously, Halloween , the mothership of all babysitter horror movies. It’s set in the early 1980s—the era of Pat Benatar bangers on MTV—a little later than 1978’s Halloween . But advancing a few years means access to slightly more advanced techn

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