Deadly Prey

Deadly Prey (1987)

Runtime: 88 minutes

Directed by: David A. Prior

Starring: Ted Prior, David Campbell, Suzanne Tara, Cameron Mitchell, Troy Donahue

From: AIP

This movie is a lot of fun; technically it's not good but it delivers on B-action entertainment, if you are into that sort of thing. I talk it all below: 

NOTE: This rating is mainly due to entertainment value and not film quality, which is poor. I understand the budget was real low but to list an example, some of the dialogue you hear was obviously not coming out of the character's mouths.

Another reason why I love being a member of Amazon Prime: I can watch this famous 80's B-action cult classic for free. Director David A. Prior and brother/lead Ted Prior made plenty of movies together but this was the one that through the course of time became famous in some circles. The story is basically The Most Dangerous Game mixed with Rambo: an evil Col. Hogan trains mercenaries for a rich A-hole and instead of doing traditional practice via drills and war games, he has people kidnapped so they can be hunted and killed. His bad luck then that Mike Danton was kidnapped, as Danton knows Hogan back from their legitimate military days and Danton is great at combat.

This is ridiculous 80's B-action all the way, from the low budget to there being gratuitous moments involving women, explosions, dozens of SOB's being killed, 80's score, older/famous actors embarrassing themselves for a paycheck, homoerotic moments... the hero is fitting as the lead in this genre: good looks, muscular, tan, mullet, cutoff jean shorts... a good amount of the movie he runs around while only wearing those jorts. Many people die throughout, and when the final act hits, there are some gleefully over the top moments.

This is not the best nor the most over the top film of its type; that said, those that are fans of this sort of motion pictures need to check it out if they haven't as it is likely they'll love this farcical nonsense.