Bloody Disgusting reports that, during the production of Superhost, at the initial stage, the two brothers started talking about the idea behind Night of the Reaper and experimenting with the classic babysitter figure. “That started this idea of, ‘Okay, well, how are we gonna build this? My brother wrote the opening, the first 10 pages or so, and he sent it to me while I was shooting. I was just like, ‘Holy shit, this is so well realized.’ Then he just kept going. We worked together after, and we started to find our pathway through, but it was a love letter to the 80s.”

Christensen’s Signature Touch

The filmmaker narrates the use of VHS in the mix, “It’s something my wife brought up to me recently, that in every movie I’ve done, I’ve played with format. In Stillborn, there’s the baby monitor, and with Z, there’s the old home videotape from when she was a kid. Superhost does all the vlogging; The Puppetman has the sleepwalking tapes. Bodycam, which is coming out next year, is obviously full footage. But with this one, you’re playing with the ‘80s, and it serves as a tool that you can use to change up the film a little bit. It also allows you to kind of do these Sinister-like vignettes that are filling out the story and giving you a little bit of horror in a storyline that really isn’t that horrific until the end.” 

Stream Night of the Reaper on Shudder, September 19th.