The Prey

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Carlos H @RT36294516 Sep 5, 2026 Boring. Not a slasher movie, its more about sex in the mountains See more Melissa L @Agent99 Sep 12, 2025 I'm surprised this didn't get a higher rating. It was scary, and had pretty good actors and videography. See more Horror fan 4 @Horrorfan4life Feb 7, 2025 Actually made in 1979 it wasn't released til 1983. There are similarities to Friday the 13th. Some shots were pointless and the 2nd half of the movie is great. The first half is slow building and boring at times. Tim Treakle See more Steve D @RT35616104 Aug 23, 2023 Not a lot to the story and less to the script. See more Bailey G @Baileyfilmbuff Feb 11, 2023 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. Written by Bailey Giannini (Movie Buff/online film critic) See more Charles T @CharlesTTatumJr Aug 29, 2022 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. See more Read all reviews

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