Night of the Reaper is worth watching around Halloween but could have used a less twist-oriented screenplay to get the job done.

It doesn't really have enough going for it to stand apart from its genre counterparts. It's a fairly slow, low-stakes journey that, despite its interesting ending twists, never has enough of a hook to feel like more than a slasher retread.

While it owes plenty to ’80s slashers, it carves out a comfortable place in the current slasher renaissance and strikes mystery, intrigue, and mayhem in equal doses.

“Night of the Reaper” ends up being a nice surprise and a little bit more than your run-of-the-mill slasher flick.