Steve D
Not a lot to the story and less to the script.
Rated 0.5/5 Stars •
Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars
08/23/23
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Bailey G
The Prey is a decent movie. It isn't a terrible horror film, but it's just your typical slasher movie. The acting is pretty good and the cast is able to hold their own, even though at times it was a bit cheesy and the actors seemed to be relying on making their performances seem like an old 50s horror film rather than an 80s horror film. This is an independent slasher/horror film that depends on what movie buffs and horror fans are looking forward. If they're looking for a horror movie to just enjoy and aren't looking for a horror movie that provides some of the best performances and special effects of all time. The cinematography is good as well, I got an Erie vibe Wiwith the way this horror film was shot, and the style that the director chose to go with. The scripting is decent and the story is very simple and easy to follow. This is the kind of slasher movie that anyone could've made. The film being set in a park forest is very creepy and to me pays homage and praise to bigger horror slasher movies like Friday The 13th (1980)…..The producers probably didn't have to pay much for the special effects back then, which seemed like we're homemade. I enjoyed watching this film and I would watch it again, but not until Halloween. In putting the whole filmmaking elements and phases together, this horror movie is decent, but it can't be compared to the other slasher movies that were made in the 80s. This movie gets 2 and 1/2 stars and a slight thumbs up.
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Bailey Giannini
(Movie Buff/online film critic)
Rated 2.5/5 Stars •
Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars
02/12/23
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sean s
Barely watchable 1980's slasher movie set in the woods with very old looking teenagers being hunted down by a homicidal gypsy burn victim. Supposedly, it was shot in 1979 and released in 1983. There are lots of nice, nature photography segments inserted into it and even a long scene of a rugged park ranger tuning and playing his banjo that seem to go nowhere and take up a good part of the movie. Also, the bad clothes and hair styles remind me of that time.
Rated 2/5 Stars •
Rated 2 out of 5 stars
03/31/23
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Charles T
Sure, most of the slasher films of the 1980's were not worth the celluloid they were filmed on, but this video nightmare may well be one of the dullest produced. Six horny, pot-smoking students decide to go camping. Of course, and you know this already, they begin getting killed one by one by a mysterious stranger. The climax has a hunky forest ranger trying to get to the teens in time before the last cute girl becomes buzzard bait.
John Carl Buechler did the lousy makeup effects. The cast features Carel Struycken, of "The Witches of Eastwick" and the live-action Addams Family movies. He does not pop up until the very end of the film, and is covered in burn makeup, rendering him unrecognizable. Steve Bond has an early role as a victim. Brown's direction, and the script he co-wrote, both smell like the presents brown bears leave in the woods. He pads the film with so much stock wilderness footage, I thought I accidentally rented an episode of "Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom". The cast sit around the campfire and eat, then walk, and sit and eat again. The forest ranger is involved in the strangest scene ever put in a slasher film: he tells a joke about a wide mouthed frog to a baby deer. Jackie Coogan, who must have forgot he once worked with the legends of silent cinema, has two scenes, and is involved in the second strangest scene ever put in a slasher film: he and the hunky forest ranger have a conversation about cucumber and cream cheese sandwiches on oatmeal bread...yeah. There is not one minute of suspense. The killer watches the students from behind trees. We know it is the killer because the film makers have dubbed in a heart beat sound effect that serves to wake the viewer up every few minutes. Skip this pile of pine sap and watch "Halloween," instead.
Rated 1/5 Stars •
Rated 1 out of 5 stars
07/18/23
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Audience Member
A boring, uninspired, sloppy in the woods slasher with no charisma, no interesting characters, no originality, no entertainment value, piss poor direction, a crappy ending, and a killer who looks like a burned corpse version of Sloth from The Goonies. The pacing is very sluggish to the point I actually almost fell asleep. I'm usually hesitant to call a slasher film set in the woods a rip-off of Friday the 13th, but this one without a doubt is.
Rated 1/5 Stars •
Rated 1 out of 5 stars
01/17/23
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Audience Member
Another run of the mill 80s slasher that desperately wanted to capitalize on the fame of Friday the 13th. The setup is basic as a deformed dude with an axe kills campers. The film has some nice nature photography but mostly the film is a dud. The kills, effects, atmosphere, plot are all overly mediocre. Nothing is really bad so if you have a retro itch to scratch or were obsessed since you were a kid with seeing this after having spent years seeing it in the video store than it's not the worst.
2.25/5
Rated 2/5 Stars •
Rated 2 out of 5 stars
01/22/23
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