76%User score 76 percent
Halloween
1978 · Horror · Thriller
User Score
64 votes
Nothing is as it seems.
A college student returns home for the weekend and reluctantly takes a babysitting job after a local babysitter is brutally murdered. When the town’s sheriff receives chilling evidence that the killing wasn’t an isolated incident, a deadly night unfolds as a masked killer sets the stage for another attack.
Recommendations based on this film
patient1
October 22, 2025
We have us an old-fashioned case of Horror who done it going on, and it doesn't look good for our local authorities. What a vile person this Killer is, too bad our main character is an amazing thinker. I hate to say it, but I'm very impressed with this "who done it" film. They actually had from the go, and I'm very surprised and freaking overjoyed at the outcome...
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The Fixate & Binge Podcast, w/ Joe Curdy
July 29, 2026
From its 1980s setting, to its unsettling horror trope of a late night babysitting gig for a young teenager that goes horrifically wrong -- **NIGHT OF THE REAPER** is not a bad viewing experience to kick off this Halloween season. Writer and director Brandon Christenson clearly understands suspense horror, delivering a grim whodunnit in a small midwestern town after the harrowing events from the film's opening scene.…
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