CULT HERO OF THE MONTH
SET IN a Chicago peepshow in neon-lit, hard-rock-scored 1987, Luke Boyce’s Revealer confines its odd couple to a grimy booth and an underground maze during an apocalypse. Angie (Caito Aase) runs a gauntlet of protestors to clock on as an exotic dancer in the ‘Revealers’ club. When something — if not Angie’s bump-and-grind act, then a general air of ’80s depravity — brings about the Biblical End Times, Christian anti-porn campaigner Sally (Shaina Schrooten) joins Angie in peril. They bicker and bond as the trumpet of doom sounds, the unrighteous are cut down and demons and angels clash. With most of the Tribulation off screen, Boyce focuses on the complex, antagonistic women, whose secrets compromise their ‘sinner’ and ‘saved’ stereotypes.