grim reaper start a an exotic dancer rachel wilson ( chersih lee ) wait for a taxi to take her home and unfortunately say taxi run her over instead . for no apparent reason although it hard to feel sorry for rachel since she be stand right in the middle of the road . rachel survives and be take to a nearby hospital where she meet a creepy nurse ( alice ensor ) and before she know it rachel wake up inside a room inside the abandoned st. joseph mental institution where dr. brown ( brent fidler ) have collect several teenager all of whom have have near death experience . insdie st. joseph the teen start to be stalk and kill one by one by a hooded figure that could very well be the grim reaper himself a he search for those who escape him the first time round . produce and direct by michael feifer one have to say that grim reaper be awful in every just about every way and it take a horror film buff with high tolerance level to sit through all of it eighty odd minute and a for those who aren not particularly interested in the genre you probably wouldn not last much more than twenty odd minute . the script by ellis walker be a total mess from start to finish and there be flashback and flash forward and dream and dream within dream and hallucination and a confusing plot that doesn not work and a terrible end that make no sense and the whole film be just a narrative nightmare a you be thrust from one scenario to another in the blink of an eye and thus not really give you the chance to take the already confused plot in since it chop and change so much . the whole point of a film in my opinion be to entertain and if a film entertain me for it duration and i have fun then i can forgive almost anything but when it come to a film such a grim reaper which be such a chore to watch i find myself rapidly lose the will to live . consider that grim reaper only last for a relatively modest eighty odd minute and it feel like it go on for literally hour one could quite easily come to the conclusion it a really boring slow moving film . the plot revolve around several teen escape death feel right out of final destination ( 2000 ) only there no clever death and it pretty much turn into a really awful teen slasher a the grim reaper become your average freddy kruger type killer . the end be awful too and since when do die for a few minute enable you to travel back in time and change past event . a real mess from start to finish . director feifer do ok and to be fair to grim reaper it fairly well make and i be not sure why there be no light in st. joseph since it appear to be the dark mental institution on earth but a a whole the film be reasonably well make and photograph . unfortunately reasonable production value still do not save it from be conceptually awful and a complete total utter mess . the gore level be disappointing and a couple of people be stab by the grim reaper while someone have pencil stick in their face and someone be slice in half in an unconvincing totally bloodless cgi computer effect . you will notice a lot of comment for grim reaper say rachel be a stripper but she never take her clothes off and be more of an exotic dancer . with a supposed budget of about $ 1 and 000 and 000 grim reaper be a reasonably well fund film and it show with it decent production value although a i have already say the film be terrible so that doesn not really matter . the acting be probably below average but not the bad i have see . grim reaper be a really awful film thanks to a terrible script that be confuse and have a rubbish story and be as dull a dishwater . definitely one to avoid if you can help it . not to be confuse with the joe damato italian gore film anthropophagus ( 1980 ) which be widely release in the u and uk under the title the grim reaper .