Self-important, over-dramatic, uninspired.

In truth, there is barely enough story here to make a film.

This movie tries so hard to be funny, yet it falls flat every time. Just another example of recycled ideas repackaged with women in an attempt to appeal to a certain audience.

Blistering performances.

A carnivorous, shape-shifting alien becomes the guest of an unwitting couple consisting of a paranoid and possessive lesbian and her naive lover. They take him in on the premise that he's hurt because he's limping, and, for the most part, dismiss his odd behavior. This is really two horror movies in one, and I loved that idea. The dangerous alien as one aspect and the abusive relationship as the other. Who is the real monster? Which is more scary? I enjoyed it overall, but this thing kind of goes off the rails in a few places. There is a slow motion scene with all of them in the water that is particularly over the top and goes on for way too long. I found the beginning and the end to be particularly enthralling, but could do without most of the middle story, a lot of which I found vague and at times laughable. The worst part about this for me was the sound. Much of the dialogue was so soft it's unintelligible while the soundtrack was blaring. Worth a watch for an interesting premise, beginning, and great ending.

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.

Alien Prey is a sci-fi / sexploitation movie that accomplishes what it sets out to do: offer cheap thrills and quick T&A. It's far from a good movie, but still fun to watch.The film follows a shape shifting alien that arrives in the English countryside and starts killing people and animals. He moves in with a pair of lesbians, one of whom may be pretty dangerous herself.This movie exists for two reasons: to show off the body of Glory Annen and offer some cheap gore. It succeeds more in the first department than the second. Although it offers plenty of titillation, the pacing, particularly in the middle, is rather slow. The climax does offer some surprisingly good gore though, and a twist I didn't entirely expect.One major issue with this film, in retrospect, is its depiction of lesbianism. The more obvious lesbian, Josephine, is portrayed as a mentally ill misandrist, basically a walking negative stereotype of lesbianism. That said, this wasn't unusual for the time, and the film depicts the other lesbian as a sympathetic character.

This film is certainly different. I have never really seen to many films like it. It does have areas that play out like the film Xtro, but for the most part there are very few films I have seen that remind me of this. You have an alien with vague motives, you have two lesbian lovers...one a cute and naive number, and the other a bit of a jealous obsessive one with dark secrets of her own. You have nudity, you have some gore and while watching this you are wondering to yourself, "Where the heck is this going?" Granted, I kind of knew, but at times they threw me for a loop.The story has an alien landing and killing a couple. He takes the guise of the male and proceeds to hide out on the property belonging to a girl and her female companion. Turns out they are a couple of strange lovers and you have a very strange film. The alien at times looks so uncomfortable as they keep giving him tea and try to give him vegetables. He is not much of a vegetarian suffice to say. He finally finds something he likes when they give him some booze. For the most part this one just focuses on the three characters and things begin to get really strange.The film is okay, but it could of used more here and there and less too. I mean, there is a scene where the alien is in the water, and he clearly has no water on his planet and you get this prolonged slow motion rescue type scene. The dark secret of the one lesbian in the end proves to be almost pointless.So an okay movie, in that while watching you are wondering how is this going to end. Well it ended about how you would expect it too considering what the alien was doing while alone during most of the film. At one point I was thinking maybe he was just trying to achieve perhaps another goal, but no...he was going after what I thought he was. Still, not many films feature such bizarreness from the other non-aliens to get there.