The Reaper(Day of the Reaper)

## Poster

**The Reaper** is the main slasher villain of the 1984 slasher video movie, Day of the Reaper.

He is portrayed by **Todd Nolf**.

## Personality

The Reaper is a silent, sadistic maniac who shows no mercy for his victims and won’t stop to kill anyone he has come across.

## Background

The Reaper was once an ordinary human until his soul got invaded by a spirit that turned him into a cannibalistic murderer and has since lived in the woods where he killed and fed on countless victims who were in the area, resulting in a case of missing people that’s been worked on for five years.

## Biography

One day, five women were at a beach near the woods for a vacation until they decided to leave when it appears that it might rain. As they drive away, the car suddenly breaks down so one of them, Jill, stays behind while the others look around the woods for help. Two of them come across an area where they discovered severed limbs and decide to head back to the car, unaware they’re been watched by The Reaper. As the women make it back to the car, they’re shocked to discover Jill’s dead body on the road with her arm sliced off The Reaper feasting on her severed arm. The Reaper tries to kill the rest of the women but they manage to knock him down and tie him up. The women then get a detective, named Rosenberg, who believes the Reaper is the one responsible for all the missing people in the area for five years and transports him upstate into the Eisten House mental institution.

However, the Reaper manages to escape the mental institution by crawling underneath the wire gates and looks for the five women since they brought him to the light of the human race. He heads back to the woods and finds one of the women from earlier, Julie, laying around the beach. After she looks nearby around the woods, she lays against the tree where the Reaper appears and hacks her throat with a machete.

The Reaper then arrives at Heather’s house where he kills her with a saw. He then makes his way to a Motel where Sheryl and her boyfriend, Don, are staying at. After the Reaper kills Don while he was in the shower, he then chokes Sheryl to death and heads back out to find Jennifer.

After discovering Heather’s dead body at her house, Jennifer gets Rosenberg to help her out, so he uses her as bait to lure the Reaper so he can capture him. Once the Reaper finds Jennifer in a dead-end alleyway, he approaches her with an axe until Rosenburg stops him and has him in gunpoint. Once the Reaper is handcuffed, Rosenberg takes him away.

13 months later, the Reaper gets taken out of the institution to be sent to death row by two mental institution guards where they handcuffed his left wrist to the car door while sitting on the right side. As they drive away, the Reaper breaks out of his cuffs and tries to escape when the two employees stopped the car. The Reaper kills one of them but gets shot in the stomach by the other employee with a rifle. Thinking he’s dead, the employee tries to calm down from the situation, but the Reaper gets back up despite the gun shot in his stomach and slits the employee’s throat. The Reaper then walks into the woods to search for Jennifer, the sole survivor of his last killing spree.

After Jennifer remembers about the Reaper’s killing spree and her friends, she heads out until she finds the Reaper outside with an axe and he chases after her through the woods. As she runs away, Jennifer trips and twists her ankle, so she hides behind the tree until the Reaper unknowingly passes by her. She attempts to escape the woods only to comes across the Reaper again and he continues to chase after her. Jennifer manages to knock him down with a broken branch while he was running and he lands down on a stick sticking up from the ground, stabbing him in the eye and allowing Jennifer to escape.

After Jennifer meets up with Rosenburg, he doesn’t believe she saw the real Reaper since he still thinks that he’s on his way to death row by now and even tells her to see a friend of his, Dr. Paul Block, thinking she’s seeing things due to her trauma. However, after hearing on the news about the Reaper’s escape, Rosenberg runs out of his house out of panic and heads into the woods, unaware that the Reaper is chasing after him. Once stopping to catch his breath, the Reaper attacks Rosenburg and the two fight until the Reaper hacks him up with an axe.

Jennifer meets up with Dr. Paul Block who believes the Reaper is the result of the spirit invading a human’s soul in every seven year cycle due to the Reaper still being alive after being shot and mutilated before. He then tells her that if they stop the Reaper, it put a stop to the spirit’s seven year cycle and that she has to be used for bait again since the Reaper will be after her.

After getting a former mass murderer that Dr. Paul Block manipulated into fighting the Reaper, he and Jennifer wait in the woods until the Reaper arrives. The mass murderer and the Reaper start fighting each other where the Reaper stabs him in the crotch. However, the mass murderer gets back and continues fighting with the Reaper until they both fall down to the ground. The mass murderer then stabs the Reaper in the head and pulls his eye out. The two continue their fighting until the Reaper manages to hack the mass murderer down to the ground into a bloody mess. Despite being victorious in the fight, the Reaper collapses to the ground. Taking the chance, Dr. Paul Block cuts the Reaper’s heart out and eats it in order to stop the spirit once and for all. Unfortunately, instead of stopping the spirit, it invades Dr. Paul Block’s soul and uses his body to kill Jennifer with the axe.

## Murder Objects

### Handheld Weapons

* Pen
* Razor Blade
* Machete
* Knife
* Saw
* Axe

## Kills

* **Mental Asylum Guard #1**: Stabbed in the left eye with a pen.
* **Mental Asylum Guard #2**: Throat slit with a razor blade.
* **Jill**: Found with her left arm sliced off and bled to death.
* **Julie**: Throat hacked with a machete
* **Heather**: Throat slit by a saw.
* **Don**: Gutted alive and left hand sliced off in the shower with a knife.(Off-screen)
* **Sheryl**: Choked to death by hand.
* **Detective Rosenburg**: Hacked and dismembered with an axe.(Off-screen)
* **Mass Murderer**: Stabbed in the crotch with a knife and hacked to pieces with an axe.