Sure, with my fascination and love of the horror genre, then of course I opted to sit down and watch the 1985 movie "Revenge", without ever having heard about it. I had the opportunity to watch it here in 2024, and of course I did so. I didn't know what I was in for, but the movie's cover was actually interesting enough. But I was expecting a certain level of 1980s cheese and campy horror clichés.
Granted, I haven't watched the 1985 movie "Blood Cult", to which "Revenge" is a direct sequel. So I don't know how much I was missing out on in terms of being able to fully understand or appreciate the narrative and storyline in this sequel, which was released just year after its predecessor.
The storyline in the movie was a bit all over the place; one minute it was a slasher movie, the next it was a supernatural slasher, and then a psychological thriller. It felt like writer and director Christopher Lewis didn't really know where to go with the story, nor how to really construct a red thread in the narrative. Watching "Revenge" felt like it was pieced together by numerous small independent shots that Christopher Lewis had filmed, and then attempted to fuse them together and make a cohesive narrative from it.
Of the entire cast ensemble in the movie, I was only familiar with Patrick Wayne and John Carradine. Despite the fact that the movie's script and storyline was a dumpster fire, then the acting performances were actually fair.
This 1985 horror movie from writer and director Christopher Lewis was a swing and a miss. It was a pretty weak horror experience, and the movie is highly forgettable. This is definitely not a movie that I would recommend to horror fans. Nor is it a movie that I will ever sit down and watch a second time, as it was a struggle enough to sit through the boredom the first time around.
"Revenge" is a mid-1980s horror movie that should remain shelved and collecting dust. Not really worth spending a staggering, and boring, 100 minutes on watching.
My rating of "Revenge" lands on a two out of ten stars.
