Revealer

Revealer (2022) is a movie currently available on Shudder. The storyline follows a stripper and a Bible pusher who have known eachother since high school and can't stand one another. They harass each other every time they see each other. One inauspicious day while the stripper is working an outbreak of sorts occurs and the infected start killing people causing the Bible pusher to run into the strip club for safety. Now the stripper and religious fanatic will need to work together if they hope to survive.

This movie is directed by Luke Boyce, in his directorial debut, and stars Caito Aase (Black Mold), Bishop Stevens (Girl on the Third Floor), Buzz Leer (Silent as the Grave) and Shaina Schrooten (Scare Package II).

This movie actually had some potential with interesting characters, dynamics, settings and an outbreak that reminded me of Slither or the Faculty. Unfortunately, the entire movie focuses on the characters going back and forth and less on the horror elements. The horror elements, when there are any, are actually pretty good. The tongue sequences and floor slithers scenes did have redeeming elements. We just didn't get enough of them. The ending is a bit cliche and too predictable.

Overall, this is a disappointing addition to the horror genre that missed an opportunity to be good. I would score this a 3.5-4/10 and recommend skipping it.

Getting annoyed by the constant criticism, a stripper at a local club trying to dodge the constant religious protests against the club finds herself stuck with one of the protestors when a religious apocalypse starts leaving them to put their differences aside to escape the situation.

Overall, this one was pretty decent enough when it really tried to. The main factor to be had with this one is the highly enjoyable and fun setup involving the series of contrasts that exists throughout here. This one spends so much time informing us of the differences between the two of them, with the carefree and rebellious stripper in charge of herself while the self-righteous and uptight religious zealot leading the protests against her coming across as the perfectly diametrically-opposed opposites that can be stuck in a situation like this. The series of religious taunting and morality-based accusations against each other that make up the majority of the conversations throughout here which become all the more likable as time goes on and they find themselves stuck together. That leads to the actually fun series of encounters and confrontations that emerge once the two are forced together. This not only manages to tie together the non-horror scenes where they try to break her out of the booth that she got stuck in while the whole cataclysm started while still fighting each other for their beliefs, but the later scenes involving them trying to battle back against the creatures spawned to kill them. With several impressive scenes in the underground tunnels while they try to make their way to safety offering some rather likable sequences, this one manages to get some fine genre elements in play while utilizing the concept of the impending religious apocalypse to offer up plenty of fun elements that hold it up overall. There aren't a lot of flaws here but it does have some issues. The main detriment to be had here is the overlong set up in the first half that focuses on the two trying to get their differences out that comes off as utterly bland and dull. The constant arguments and put-downs that the two of them spout off to each other signal that this one will be going through the same motions regarding their fight for the entire segment. It's not that appealing or creative to have the two go through the same arguments numerous times over, especially with the second half going through a redemption arc for the one character to make her change her ways that turn everything into a rather familiar sense of religious persecution. Hardly any of this comes off as thoughtful in regards to how it all pays off with the apocalypse taking place which just undoes a lot of the positives and ends up knocking this down overall.

Rated Unrated/R: Graphic Language and Graphic Violence.

I thought finally, a movie with the biblical end times! Couldn't wait to see it. Well, let's just say, "well then..."

I think it was meant to be a cheesy movie, but it was too much cheese with an awful mixture of lame. The setting is really cliche - a stripper in a peep show house.

I do give the film credit for giving a little bit of emotional background to the two main female characters. However, that seems to be the only effort put into the story. I'm not sure if this was done on purpose or not. It is fun though.

The main characters come off as annoying as hell. Other than having them reveal a little background, I wanted to tear my hair out while listening to them argue with each other most of the time.

Finally, the demon aesthetics were terrible.

Funnily enough, the end credits are almost better than the whole rest of the movie.

Other than that, pretty predictable plots points, special effects are good though.

Right, well the cover/poster for the 2022 horror movie "Revealer" was interesting, especially given the 1980s vibe and the tentacles in the background. And being an avid horror fan and a Lovecraft fan, of course I opted to watch "Revealer", despite of never having heard about it prior to watching it.

I wasn't sure what I was in for here, from writers Luke Boyce, Michael Moreci and Tim Seeley, but I do believe in giving a movie a fair chance. And since "Revealer" was a horror movie, then I was already interesting in watching it.

The storyline told in "Revealer" was a bit too far out there for my liking. I mean, the end of days apparently takes place in the 1980s, and all we get to see, essentially, is the insides of a sleazy strip club. But wait, it gets better, then suddenly the demon Asmodeus shows up. Right.

Well, it might have worked if anything interesting actually took place during the slow paced progress of the narrative. But it didn't, and that means that you are stuck with a somewhat dull and monotonous storyline that takes forever to get nowhere and tells nothing worthwhile while doing that. Not really the recipe for a top of the line narrative.

The acting performances in "Revealer" were actually fair enough, despite of the cast ensemble being very small, and the actresses and actors virtually had next to nothing to work with. So at least that counted for something.

Visually then "Revealer" was okay, I guess. If you look aside from the inarticulate rubber mask that they used for Asmodeus.

All in all, then "Revealer" is not a fabulous horror movie, nor is it actually particularly scary or entertaining. If you enjoy horror movies, then I suggest you get your kicks elsewhere, like "Stranger Things" for example, as "Revealer" seems to be somewhat influenced by that series.

My rating of director Luke Boyce's "Revealer" lands on a three out of ten stars.