25: Night Of The Reaper (2025)
After a girl gets stalked while babysitting on a chilly October night, another girl is persuaded to cover for a friend’s babysitting job. Meanwhile the town sheriff who is sure there’s a killer on the loose receives some confirming evidence.
A Shudder presentation from a director who’s already made two films for them, Night Of The Reaper is a 1980s throwback slasher which is so painstakingly of that style because it’s setting up a decent-sized twist.
A lot of the scares rely on the soundtrack providing LOUD NOISES, but there’s also some fun use of strange camera moves.
The 1980s setting is mostly low-key dingy, used for the killer providing grainy VHS footage, not the isolation of lack of mobile phones - the main characters spend a lot of their time on the phone and some using walkie-talkies, nearly on the Stranger Things level of it being obvious the creators grew up with mobile phones.
Content note: harm to animals and threats to children, mostly off screen. It cuts away from some of the most potentially grim material.
The medium: Shudder
Gameability: Classic horror one-shot but maybe use a system where the players can get a power-up?
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