Deadly Prey
Deadly Prey
R | 02 November 1987 (USA)
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A group of sadistic mercenaries led by Col. John Hogan kidnap Michael Danton from his home, and set him loose on the grounds of their secret camp to be used as training for new recruits. Danton has been called the "most perfect killer ever." Now, he'll have to prove it again. This prey has become DEADLY!

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Cubussoli

Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

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WasAnnon

Slow pace in the most part of the movie.

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Nessieldwi

Very interesting film. Was caught on the premise when seeing the trailer but unsure as to what the outcome would be for the showing. As it turns out, it was a very good film.

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Aubrey Hackett

While it is a pity that the story wasn't told with more visual finesse, this is trivial compared to our real-world problems. It takes a good movie to put that into perspective.

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skullpoints

As many others have said, this movie is terrible. My wife and I have seen it 3 times, and would happily watch it every week. Give me this low grade piece of crap over anything at the Oscars. It's 88 minutes of pure trash. It's not like most Z movies that have a few quotable lines and a couple of hilarious scenes. This entire movie is 100% garbage. Every death is hilarious. Every line is bad.Deadly Prey doesn't need to get bogged down by needless stuff like 'character development'. It goes at full the whole way through. If you're not rooting for Danton by the end, then you're dead inside.Someone said in their review that you shouldn't waste your time with something like this because life is short. Well I would say that sitting with your friends or family, enjoying an hour and a half, laughing and forgetting how serious the world is, is the opposite of a 'waste of time'.It's the best Z movie you'll ever see. There's nothing else to say.

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Andreja Marjanovic

I finally found this movie, last time I was searching for it only lethal weapon was popping out. Today I searched in my language and this movie's trailer popped out but this was uploaded 10 months ago so that's why I found it this time. I watched it on VHS as a kid, I rented it and never watched it again. I remember I liked it so I guess all little boys did. You have an actor that looks like Arnold Schwarzenegger, some kiddish fighting, action and that's all you need he he. I watched it few minutes ago but I was scrolling so it took me less than 10min. I just wanted to see scenes I remembered. For all that I'll give it a 10, good old times :)

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Sandcooler

There's really not much to this movie: an off-brand Rambo ("Mike Danton", just good enough I guess) with an epic mullet walks through the woods and kills evil army guys. That's pretty much it. Most scenes are identical. The most clueless army ever looks around for mullet guy, then he comes out of an implausible hiding space to kill one of them without anyone else knowing. The way things just solve themselves for our hero is beyond amazing. Nobody hears it when a victim grunts, even though they're walking about two feet from each other and there's no other noise whatsoever. Everyone has machine guns, but drop them instantly when they have an easy shot because they're just so keen on awkward hand-to-hand combat. People die from everything. At one point our hero just takes a branch and impales a guy on it...somehow. And then there's the traps, which really make you wonder how small this forest is supposed to be. One scene features Danton hiding in the water to kill someone who walks by. He doesn't lure him there, he has no way of knowing the soldier is going to get nearby. He's just suddenly there, magically. A similar thing happens when the evil backer guy helps out a guy laying on the street. Why? He's a douchebag, why would he help people? So he can get killed of course. If I'm making it sound like I hate this movie, nothing could be further from the truth. I like it, but dear God is it intensely stupid. It's like if a 12-year-old got the chance to write an action movie and just wrote whatever popped up without taking anything else into account. Yeah he can't be there, yeah that makes no sense, let's put it in anyway. This has its positive and negative points, but the former outweigh the latter. "Deadly Prey" is entertaining because it gets straight to the good stuff, but please give your brain a day off.

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Scott_Mercer

So wrong, and that makes it so right.So many assumptions about filmmaking, screen writing and directing are destroyed here. 99.99999% of any and all points of coincidence with the world that you and I live in on a daily basis are obliterated with extreme prejudice.Sheer entertainment that has no connection with truth, or life, or death, or anything. Pure puffery. The cinematic equivalent of chugging raw sugar water. No nutritional value whatsoever, but will give you a vigorous, thrusting rush of pure adrenalin direct to your brain pan.The filmmakers set out to create a tall tale about the toughest dude in the history of forever, who makes Rambo look like Woody Allen. A man whose very mullet demands the utmost respect. A man who can single-handedly take out ENTIRE ARMIES, using little but twigs, rocks and his own incontrovertible bad-assery, while simultaneously BAREFOOT AND CLAD IN NOTHING BUT CUT-OFF JEAN SHORTS.The plot? Does it really matter? Okay, some fascist paramilitary thugs kidnap people off the streets of Los Angeles, and take them to their (painfully non-hidden) military camp out in the desert, where said kidnap victims are stalked in a live hunt as part of their evil "training." But they, like many movie bad guys, made a crucial, careless mistake that would seal their doom: THEY KIDNAPPED THE WRONG DUDE. That's right. They made the cardinal error of grabbing the most awesome, kick-ass retired former special forces mercenary to ever eff up your skull. And now, HE'S MAD.That's about it, but I can assure you that the ensuing carnage is as stupidly awesome as you can imagine, probably even more so. Not really giving away anything that many others have not already mentioned, and that would be the movie's most stunning, jaw dropping moment, in which the hero CUTS A GUY'S ARM OFF AND BEATS HIM TO DEATH WITH IT. Then, he scalps him. Holy moly.About the only thing of note I can add here to direct all fans of Deadly Prey to check out another similar film from around the same time, David Heavener's KILL CRAZY. Not nearly as over-the-top as Deadly Prey, but definitely enjoyable and in the same ballpark. I have a review up of that film as well, so check that out.Also, I hear that David Prior and Ted Prior are...wait for it...supposedly working on DEADLY PREY 2! Can it be true? Can it be possible? Can they even come close to the results they achieved the first time out? Stay tuned, fans of action film nuttery. This should be interesting.

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