Simply A Masterpiece

Am i the only one who thinks........Average?

When a movie has you begging for it to end not even half way through it's pure crap. We've all seen this movie and this characters millions of times, nothing new in it. Don't waste your time.

This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

Wow.This one came out of nowhere. I'm just watching my way through some Z-grade movies, enjoying cheesy science fiction, laughing at half-baked plots, and struggling to get through some real duds. Then I get to PREY. This one stands out from the rest. Not because it's sexploitation (already got a bit of that in HUNDRA) but because it lures you in with one plot but then sucker punches you with another once you get settled. PREY is two-fold, with a pair of plot threads running parallel over the course of the movie. The first, most obvious, and primarily advertised is that of the alien. The movie opens with the landing of an alien ship in the English countryside. The alien quickly murders a man and assumes his identity, wandering into the forest until he comes to an isolated cabin and our second plot line. Living in this cabin are a pair of lesbian lovers, Josephine (Sally Faulkner) and Jessica (Glory Annen). Right from the start, something seems off about these two. Josephine in particular seems angered by the presence of this mystery man and seethes with a hatred for men in general. Jessica is the more naïve of the couple, kind-hearted and caring. Her first reaction to this stranger on their property is to give him shelter and see to whatever wound is causing his limp. Tensions mount as Josephine struggles to turn Jessica against the man, who has assumed the name Anders Anderson (Barry Stokes), while Anderson tends to his own shady business.You see, the movie starts out as a sort of body-snatchers thriller. We get the alien landing and then it stumbles across an attempted date rape in the middle of the woods; it rips the man's throat out and transforms to assume his identity before proceeding to crush his date to death with its bare hands. All right, cool. We're off to a fun start and there's even some gore effects when he kills the dude. Then we move on to the cabin and…hold on…now the movie is about a young woman trapped in an abusive relationship with an older woman. Keep in mind, when we first meet the alien it rips a man's throat out and yet, still, Josephine comes across as the most evil character in the movie. She's spiteful and passive aggressive; she's mentally and emotionally abusive to Jessica, keeping her trapped on this little farmstead. Josephine fills Jessica's head with venomous lies, telling her that they have to stay in their hidden little cabin because the evil villagers don't approve of their lesbian lifestyle. Whether that's true or not is never seen, as we rarely wander far from the cabin. And Josephine is hateful of any sort of outside interference. We constantly hear of a man name Stanley, a friend who apparently used to come along once in a while before the movie but has since ceased contact with them. Jessica misses him but Josephine insists she's wasting her time prattling on about him.So we've got an alien presence and an abusive relationship, but that's not all PREY has to offer. This movie is insane and the more you think about it, the crazier it gets. Keep in mind, the women have no idea Anderson is an alien. They assume from his bizarre behavior that he's just mentally disabled in some fashion. They invite this odd stranger into their home and, at one point, have a little party where they inexplicably dress him up in women's clothing, make up and all. OK, he's an alien and has no idea what's going on, but to these women he's just a mentally confused stranger they can slather in lipstick. It gets crazier. At one point, Anderson ends up thrashing in a lake because he can't swim. In the wide shot, he is very obviously in water that can't be more than six inches deep. And he's just splashing around in a panic. Then Josephine and Jessica jump in to save him and all three wind up thrashing in this shallow water in slow motion while the soundtrack pounds away. Mind you, this water was black and seriously nasty, and there are plenty of shots where poor Glory Annen takes in a mouthful of this muck. Ugh, poor girl. And her character is just so stupid. When Jessica goes in search of clean clothes for Anderson, she happens across a trunk in Josephine's room containing bloody clothes and an enormous switchblade. Just a big ol' box of evidence that Josephine has killed. Yet another reason this relationship needs to be aborted, but Jessica forgets immediately and goes back about her daily routine.PREY is nuts and for that I give it a recommend. It's a science fiction movie about a cat monster from space (Anderson's normal form is that of a cat person) mixed with a suspense thriller about a young woman trapped in a dangerous relationship with a psychopath; two separate plots tossed in a blender and served as a cheesy, sci-fi sexploitation stew.

Popping a Norman J Warren movie into the DVD player is always something of a gamble: sometimes they're awful in almost every way imaginable (Inseminoid); sometimes they simply make no sense at all (Bloody New Year); occasionally they prove entertaining despite a total lack of logic and technical ineptitude (Terror).Prey falls into the last category: it's got a completely bizarre and unpredictable plot and is far from what I would call a great piece of film-making, but there's something about it that I find irresistible (and I'm not just talking about the hot lesbian sex scene!).I love it's completely off-kilter plot—a carnivorous, dog-nosed alien that assumes human guise and imposes himself on a pair of lesbians, one of whom is an insane control freak with a murderous past. I love it's shoddy make-up and gore. I love the crazy dyke with the jealous streak. I love the alien's bizarre party outfit (a black frock and a touch of lippy!!!). I love the silly surprise ending.Of course, the hot lesbian sex scene doesn't hurt much either.

Prey is, effectively, two movies. We have a film about an alien coming down from space to wreak havoc on the human race, and then we have the story of a man infiltrating a lesbian relationship. This does give the film more than enough to go on when it comes to keeping things entertaining; but on the other hand, the whole alien plot actually gets in the way of the other plot and while I essentially saw this movie because it's a horror film; it's the horror that spoils it! However, while it certainly does have it's failures; Prey is a movie that was obviously shot on a very low budget and since it is a rather original take on a common movie theme; it does deserve a lot of plaudits. The movie begins with a scene that sees a young couple in a car. After a bright light in the sky, the man gets out and ends up becoming possessed by the alien before killing the girl. This all happens not far from the home of Jessica and Josephine; a pair of lesbians living in a beautiful large house. After meeting the alien and seeing him hurt, they invite him in to stay with them.The film is directed by Norman J Warren and that will be enough to put some viewers off I'm sure; as the director of such rubbish as Bloody New Year and Satan's Slave is not exactly well known for making good horror films. However, this is a cut above and surely his best work. That's not to say it's anything like high quality however! The acting is extremely poor in places and the plot doesn't exactly move smoothly; and that isn't helped by some extremely trite and stupid dialogue! The lesbian couple is much better portrayed than the alien and both do actually have some character and the dynamics of their relationship has a huge effect on how the story moves. The alien, played unconvincingly by Barry Stokes, is extremely poor and the performance relies too much on the alien not knowing much about Earth, which soon gets tiresome. However, it's only short and the weird goings on (such as a fox hunt and the alien being dressed as a woman) have a sort of surreal quirk to them. It all boils down to a gratuitous ending that works quite well. Overall, this is not great by any means; but it's an interesting cult gem and is at least worth seeing.

A quick peek at the IMDb trivia section teaches us that "Prey" was shot in only ten days and that most of the script actually had to be improvised during shooting. These usually aren't very good signs, especially not when the director already holds the reputation of delivering movies with a low level of quality. Norman J. Warren's other films (like "Inseminoid" and "Satan's Slave") are fun but extremely unoriginal, mainly revolving on graphic bloodshed and copious amounts gratuitous sleaze. "Prey" is exactly like that, but now he totally didn't even bother to come up with a script. The result is a bizarre and often laughable film that makes no sense whatsoever, but the whole ineptness is irresistibly charming nevertheless. The story goes like this: An alien, who goes by the name of Keator, arrives in rural England with a mission to research possible new food sources to save his whole species, but the poor sucker never makes it further than the isolated mansion of two crazed lesbians. He ends up living with them; they dress him up in women's clothing like he's their third lesbian toy-girl and together they hunt down a fox. When the poor animal is eventually dead, they celebrate it with a giant party, which is just a little over-the-top if you ask me. In the meantime, Keator – whose human name is Anders Anderson (!) – develops a more or less intimate relationship with the youngest lesbian and she slowly falls for him. For you see, she's not a real lesbian but just an insecure girl and the other is a scary dominatrix that literally forces the young girl to be her lover. It's a mad world, indeed. The whole middle-section of "Prey" is rather tedious and uneventful, and only hilariously cheesy & inept dialogs keep it tolerable to sit through. Then the climax is extremely gross and bloody with a sudden massacre. Surely the sick puppies and avid admirers of 70's exploitation will appreciate the graphic bloodshed of the finale, but it comes ridiculously abrupt, like Warren suddenly got tired of his film and wanted to end it, and it totally misfits the rest of the film's tone. "Prey" is a pretty bad but curiously intriguing 70's trash-film, inclusively intended for fans of this type of cinema.