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The Reverend

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After a clergyman (Stuart Brennan) is transformed into a vampire, he decides to put his newfound powers to good use and rid his town of drugs, prostitution and violence.
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David Jenkins Little White Lies Makes Frank Miller's The Spirit look like Rome: Open City. Rated: 1/5 Aug 2, 2012 Full Review Naila Scargill Exquisite Terror Bordering on unbearable, The Reverend pushes the limits of patience, the script basic and the acting self-consciously bad. Feb 28, 2019 Full Review Cleaver Patterson CineVue Sitting through it is an endurance test akin to penance. Rated: 1/5 Jan 31, 2019 Full Review Matt Donato We Got This Covered The Reverend takes what should be a uniquely engaging story and turns it into what could pass as a bloody "Afterschool Special." Rated: 3/10 Feb 16, 2014 Full Review Read all reviews

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Audience Member SPOILER ALERT if you've seen the trailer get there for last 10 mins of film and you've seen the movie!!! disappointing Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 02/21/23 Full Review Audience Member Entertaining Horror film provides a unique twist on the vampire genre. Worth checking out! Rated 4 out of 5 stars 02/12/23 Full Review Audience Member Using the selling point of Rutger Hauer and Doug Bradley as the beef in the film dosn't really help this film once you know they are just cameo roles, totaling about 5 minutes between them. Apart from that, this Thirst wannabe drags its heels and lacks pace and surprises from indie film maker Neil Jones. Pity! Rated 2 out of 5 stars 01/27/23 Full Review Audience Member They don't come much worse than this! Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 02/18/23 Full Review Audience Member This was obviously a pet project for director Neil Jones and lead actor Stuart Brennan(founding member of the production company). It's incredibly low budget but has some names that are not unrecongnisable in the UK. Doug Bradley & Rutger Hauer's involvement barely accumulates 10 minutes of screen time between them with the latter not appearing again after the typical comic book adaption style opening credits. Shane Richie & Tammar Hassan also appear as a pimp & crooked business man respectively, Hassan turns his hand here to a Sean Pertwee impression. The story revolves around a young new reverend who is assigned to a parish located in a particularly run down area. On his his first night he is visited by a young woman who attacks and feasts on him, he retaliates and kills her. Unaware of what he has become, also a mystery to the viewer as it seems he's become a vampire but his actions in daylight seem to contradict this. So he sets about cleaning up the neighbourhood by use of the bible or any other means necessary. The effects are particularly shoddy but storywise it's not all that bad if highly unoriginal. To be fair to Brennan he's not all that bad but the film just fails to maintain any interest level. It just gets quite boring and the end can't come soon enough. Rated 2 out of 5 stars 02/24/23 Full Review Audience Member Low on budget, high on ambition. Rated 2 out of 5 stars 02/18/23 Full Review Read all reviews
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Synopsis After a clergyman (Stuart Brennan) is transformed into a vampire, he decides to put his newfound powers to good use and rid his town of drugs, prostitution and violence.
Director
Neil Jones
Producer
Neil Jones, Stuart Brennan
Screenwriter
Neil Jones
Production Co
Burn Hand Film Productions
Genre
Horror
Original Language
English
Release Date (Streaming)
Mar 3, 2020
Runtime
1h 38m
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