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Nightmare on Film Street - A Horror Movie Podcast

Night of The Reaper (2025) Interview with Director Brandon Christensen

Nightmare on Film Street - A Horror Movie Podcast

Kimberley Elizabeth & Jonathan Dehaan

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4.51.1K Ratings

🗓️ 18 September 2025

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Who says you have to wait until October for a Halloween horror movies? We're joined on this week's episode of Nightmare on Film Street by writer/director Brandon Christensen to discuss his new 1980s Halloween set babysitter slasher Night of The Reaper streaming on Shudder Sept 19, and his 2026 found footage horror Bodycam which recently celebrated its world premiere.

If you're an aspiring filmmaker intimidated by tricky VFX shots, or just a curious horror fan that's always wanted to know how much it costs to license Blue Oyster Cult's Don't Fear The Reaper, this is the interview for you! Brandon Christensen chats with us about all the ins and outs of making an indie Halloween flick, directing his son, and completing post-production on two movies at the same time!


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0:00.0

You're listening to Nightmare on Film Street.

0:05.0

The current time is 666.

0:10.0

Traffic is clear ahead from here to the afterlife, but it's hell outside.

0:17.0

So, let's give a grave welcome to our hosts, John and Kim.

0:27.0

Hello again, fiends, and welcome back to Nightmare on Film Street, the horror movie podcast for the casually obsessed on John.

0:35.8

And this week, Kim is sick.

0:38.1

Kim actually has pneumonia.

0:40.1

It's really doing a number on her, but she's doing okay.

0:44.4

This week, we are bringing you an interview that we did with writer-director Brandon Christensen.

0:51.1

You probably remember some of his movies.

0:52.6

We've had him on the podcast before.

0:53.9

You know, we've talked about Stillborn. We've talked about Z and Superhost. He also directed a movie

0:59.7

called The Puppet Man, which has some of the grossest kills of the year when that movie came

1:05.1

out. And today he's back on the show to talk about his newest film, Night of the Reaper.

1:10.7

This is a babysitter- slasher set at Halloween

1:13.6

with a really cool synth soundtrack. It's a slasher who done it. And it's going to be streaming

1:19.0

on Shudder this weekend. We love talking with Brandon Christensen because he is a true indie

1:25.4

filmmaker who isn't afraid to just roll up his sleeves and get shit done.

1:30.0

He does a lot of VFX work for his own movies and for a lot of other people. We talk about it a

1:35.8

little bit in this podcast. And part of it's just because they didn't have the money to do VFX work

1:41.5

on his first film. So he just rolled up his sleeves, figured it out,

1:44.3

and that's kind of what he does as a side project now. We really enjoyed this movie, and we always

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