History Film / Reeker

* GrimReaper: The Reeker is Death itself reinterpreted as a malodourous [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot undead cyborg]]. His hooded duster stands in for the robe, and the power tool [[ArtificialLimbs implanted in his right arm]] stands in for the scythe. The name is even a pun on "Reaper."

* DeathBySex: [[spoiler: Cookie and Nelson]].

* PurgatoryAndLimbo: The Halfway Motel is actually purgatory (specifically for people who died in car accidents), and the Reeker cleanses those who come there of their sins by painfully and xlowly reinflicting the injuries that killed them on Earth. However, if a shade can fight him off and escape, it means they only had a Near-Death Experience.

* AdventuresInComaLand: The whole film takes place in the split instant between the characters last breaths and death.

* EvilSmellsBad: The Reeker smells like a corpse. [[spoiler: Because he is one.]] Stucky thinks his sewer line's burst when it gets him by [[spoiler: simply choking him to death with its mighty stink alone]], and it gets Cookie by hiding in the outhouse's shit-pit, where she's none the wiser to its presence.

* PurgatoryAndLimbo: The Halfway Motel is actually purgatory (specifically for people who died in car accidents), and the Reeker cleanses those who come there of their sins by reinflicting the injuries that killed them on Earth. However, if a soul can fight him off and escape, it means they only had a Near-Death Experience.

* FinalGirl: Gretchen, but Jack also survives.

* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Radford. Trip is very afraid of him, but he tries to save [[spoiler: the car crash victims]].

* EvilSmellsBad: The Reeker smells like a corpse. [[spoiler: Because he is one.]] Stucky thinks his sewer line's burst when it gets him by [[spoiler: simply choking him to death with its mighty stink alone]], and gets Cookie by hiding in the outhouse's shit-pit, where she's none the wiser to its presence.

* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Radford, Trip is very afraid of him. But he tries to save [[spoiler: the car crash victims]]

** Alex from the prequel is a bank robber. But, similiar to Trip, [[spoiler: gets a HeroicSacrifice]].

* MindScrew: both films.

* QuicksandSucks: Not a character, and not really quicksand, but when Cookie drops her flashlight in the two-holer, it's quickly swallowed up by the, um, muck at the bottom.
* TheStoner: Trip. Cookie also.

** Trip also. He is stoner and real jerk, but he [[spoiler: perform HeroicSacrifice]].
** Alex from prequel is bank robber. But he similiar to Trip [[spoiler: perform HeroicSacrifice]].

* OurSlashersAreDifferent: The Reeker is the embodiment of Death by Car Accident, and he gives people the injuries that killed them in Reality in Limbo, presumably getting into the Herefter proper by doing so. He will, however "play fair," pretending that being shot or run over will kill him, allowing people to escape his lonesome stretch of highway if they can outfight him.

* OurSlashersAreDifferent: The Reeker is the embodiment of Death by Car Accident, and he gives people the injuries that killed them in Reality in Limbo. He will, however "play fair," pretending that being shot or run over will kill him, allowing people to escape his lonesome stretch of highway if they can outfight him.
* QuicksandSucks: Not a character, but when Cookie drops her flashlight in the two-holer, it's quickly swallowed up by the, um, muck at the bottom.

* TheCanKickedHim: Cookie is killed by the Reeker, who is hiding in the shithouse. He [[spoiler: shoves a drill up her ass, and in Reality, she's killed by internal hemmorage.]]

* EvilSmellsBad: The Reeker smells like a corpse. [[spoiler: Because he is one.]]

''Reeker'' is a 2005 American horror film, written and directed by Dave Payne. It spawned a prequel, ''No Man's Land: The Rise of Reeker''. It was inspired by the director's experience with a neighbour's body which began to rot long before people knew the person.

This inspired the Reeker, an analogue of the Reaper who smells like death, who hunts people down when they're [[spoiler: between life and death, sending people on by inflicting injuries that mirror those of their physical bodies, but if they can escape limbo before that happens they can live]]

* AssholeVictim

* FinalGirl: Gretchen, but Jack also survive.
** {{Prequel}}: weirdly enough have final girl, Maya.

* OurSlashersAreDifferent: The Reeker is the embodiment of Death by Car Accident, and he gives people the injuries that killed them in Reality in Limbo. He however "plays fair," pretending that being shot or run over will kill him, allowing people to escape his linesome stretch of highway.

* BreakingTheFourthWall: Not the characters, but in the sequel, the director/writers make it very clear the audience knows the characters are [[spoiler:in limbo, to the point characters can walk around with "severe" injuries that leave them unfazed if not caused by the Reeker]]

Reeker is a 2005 American horror film, written and directed by Dave Payne. It spawned a prequel, ''No Man's Land: The Rise of Reeker''. It was inspired by the director's experience with a neighbour's body which began to rot long before people knew the person.

Reeker is a 2005 American horror film, written and directed by Dave Payne. It spawned a prequel, No Man's Land: The Rise of Reeker. It was inspired by the director's experience with a neighbour's body which began to rot long before people knew the person.

* DolledUpInstallment: It was marketed as a sequel to New Zealand movie The Locals in the Philippines. A strange example, because The Locals came out before large amounts of older horror fans grew tired of Hollywood horror, so it ended up being much more obscure. While both movies are fairly weird and feature characters [[spoiler: whose status of being alive or dead is complicated]], The Locals has nothing to do with either [[spoiler: the Grim Reaper or limbo]].

* BreakingTheFourthWall: Not the characters, but in the sequel, the director/writers make it very clear the audience knows the characters are [[spoiler:in limbo, to the point characters can walk around with "severe" injuries that leave them unphased if not caused by the Reeker]]

This inspired the Reeker, an analogue of the Reaper who smells like death, who hunts people down when they're between life and death.

* BreakingTheFourthWall: Not the characters, but in the sequel, the director/writers make it very clear the audience knows the characters are [[spoiler:in limbo]]

* DolledUpInstallment: It was marketed as a sequel to New Zealand movie The Locals. A strange example, because The Locals came out before large amounts of older horror fans grew tired of Hollywood horror, so it ended up being much more obscure.

* TwistEnding: [[spoiler: there wasn't mysterious creature that fallowed them. They all fell in car crash]]

This inspired the Reeker, an analogue of the Reaper, who hunts people down when they're between life and death.

* * DeathBySex: [[Cookie and Nelson]].

* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Radford, Trip is very afraid of him. But he tries to save [[spoiler: perform HeroicSacrifice]]

** Alex from prequel is bang robber. But he similiar to Trip [[spoiler: perform HeroicSacrifice]].

Reeker is a 2005 American horror film, written and directed by Dave Payne. It spawned a prequel, No Man's Land: The Rise of Reeker.

* [[spoiler: DeadAllAlong]]: with exeception of survivor characters, other reveal to by this.
* DeathBySex: Averted with case of Cookie and Nelson, [[spoiler: but because they was DeadAllAlong]].
* FinalGirl: Gretchen, but Jack also survive. But neither one of them was in danger from Reeker, because [[spoiler: it was all dream, and they only fell in

* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Radford, Trip is very afraid of him. But he saves both Gretchen and Jack, after they car crash.

* Final Girl: Gretchen, but Jack also survive. But neither one of them was in danger from Reeker, because [[spoiler: it was all dream, and they only fell in
** {{Prequel}}: weirdly enought have final girl, Maya.

* JerkwithHeartofGold: Radford, Trip is very afraid of him. But he saves both Gretchen and Jack, after they car crash.

* DeadAllAlong: with exeption of Gretchen and Jack in first film. And Maya and Officer Mansfield in prequel, other characters was already dead.
* DeathBySex: Averted with case of Cookie and Nelson, but because they was DeadAllAlong.
* Final Girl: Gretchen, but Jack also survive.
** {{Prequel}}: weirdly enought have final girl, Maya.