Reaper

Reaper

Year: 2014

Runtime: 90 mins

Language: English

Director: Wen-Han Shih

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Death to the wicked Criminals and a beautiful but cunning hitchhiker must battle a supernatural force known as the Reaper.

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Natalie Shayla Beesley is introduced as a striking hitchhiker who becomes entangled in a brutal chain of killings when a former cult leader, now the supernatural serial killer known as the Reaper, escapes the electric chair and starts targeting people he deems sinners across a sleepy county. The Reaper, chilling and relentless, carries out his grim work with a calm menace, turning small-town life into a nerve-wracking game of survival as he methodically chooses his prey and enforces his own warped sense of judgment.

When Bill Jake Busey—a hard-drinking, down-on-his-luck salesman—picks up Natalie, their uneasy ride soon spirals into danger. A roadside breakdown strands them at a seedy motel, where the couple check in as “newlyweds,” and Natalie, with unexpected coolness, drugs Bill, immobilizes him, and makes off with money and keys. The Reaper seals the moment with a brutal killing, using his signature weapon to extinguish Bill’s life, and the motel becomes a scene of quiet but shocking violence.

Natalie’s actions unfold against a backdrop of personal desperation. She calls her mother and learns that money is needed for a surgery, a plea that adds a moral layer to her already complicated choices. In a diner, a powerful mob figure named Rob Vinnie Jones watches as his young protege Brad James Jurdi struggles to close a deal. Natalie, ever calculating, sabotages Brad’s wheels, then manipulates him into a tense sequence where she manipulates a ride, a drink, and some cash in a dangerous bid for control. The revelation that Brad is a drug mule links the motel’s turmoil to a larger web of crime, drawing in more players and raising the stakes.

The plot thickens as the dealer Jack Danny Trejo — connected to Brad through the drug trade — is found at the same motel, and two hit men are swiftly killed by the Reaper, signaling that the killer’s reach extends far beyond a single victim. The motel’s owner attempts a brutal crime of his own against Natalie, only to fall to the Reaper’s mercy. Brad and Jack rally to Natalie’s side, and a wary alliance forms among them as a police officer, Banks Christopher Judge, arrives to detain them. The Reaper lures Banks away with a shotgun and capitalizes on the moment of confusion, leaving the trio to seek safety in a supply closet.

After Banks is slain by the Reaper and the motel is searched in a tense aftermath, Natalie, Brad, and Jack escape together and decide to fight back. They head for Jack’s truck, but Natalie’s careful theft of a distributor cap foils their escape plan, forcing the group to re-strategize and chase down the money and drugs Brad had promised Rob. Tempers flare as Rob confronts Brad, leading to a brutal confrontation in which Natalie deploys a fire extinguisher to disable Rob, though Martyr-like, Rob survives only to fall to Brad’s own blade. Jack arrives in the truck, but Brad, driven by a misguided sense of revenge and money, shoots Jack and tries to leave Natalie stranded as payback for earlier slights. The act seals Brad’s fate as the Reaper’s dark work continues.

Natalie is eventually captured again and brought to a church where the Reaper gathers his victims, intent on sending her to hell. In a last-ditch act of defiance, Jack—who has survived the earlier gunshot—returns and drowns the Reaper in a bucket of water, saving Natalie’s life and urging her to start anew with her mother awaiting her. Natalie drives away in Jack’s truck, briefly considering another life when she encounters a hitchhiker asking about her story — a quiet, unsettling reminder that danger can follow a person beyond salvation. Natalie’s journey toward a fresh start is interrupted only by a final, unsettling truth: the Reaper survives and rises once again, continuing his merciless pursuit of new victims across the highway of the night.

Last Updated: October 09, 2025 at 16:05

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