A woman has gone missing. The agoraphobic Keith Lamont is her last hope. But to find her, he’ll have to face his deepest fears.

Review by Victoria Angelique

The feature film, AWAKEN THE REAPER, is the perfect analogy for why people shouldn’t do drugs but put into a horror film scenario. The story starts slow, but once the action begins, it never stops until the last few minutes and makes it worth the wait. 

The narrative follows Keith as he comes back from a camping trip with his rehab buddies, when one of his cohorts goes missing. Like any good friend, Keith is worried about Sarah, but she’s answering her text messages. When Keith’s friends start dying Final Destination style deaths, it makes him paranoid to leave his house. This raises the question, can that actually prevent a person from dying when several of his friends were killed inside their homes? For Keith this proves his worst fears, when the killer breaks in to kill him but kills his parents.

The graphics show high definition blood creeping up walls and black goo easing up drains as if out of nowhere. This is coupled with the dark shadows and sinister music that states a villain is nearby. Like all good horror films, the bad guy wears a mask and this is one that stands out as different, like an angel of death with how black it is against the night to blend in with the shadows.

The entire film is a metaphor for why people shouldn’t do drugs. It is just as each character relapses from their sobriety that they are killed in the most graphic of ways. Each of Keith’s friends are killed in gruesome and graphic murders that will make the audience cringe.