Deadly Prey (1987)

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.

Incredibly low production values, zero quality control, scenes that look like a high school production.It's a shameless Rambo ripoff with an even stupider plot. Random people (I really mean random) are picked off the streets and dropped in the woods, unprepared, unarmed and without any assistance whatsoever. They are then hunted by groups of heavily armed soldiers who outnumber them, are better trained and armed up the wazoo. This is all for training. But what is the point of this training? The civilians are completely helpless and hopeless. It's like shooting ducks in a barrel and calling it "army training."Anyway, things don't go so well for this private army when one duck turned out to be not so helpless after all. He fights them off and so they have to up their game.I don't want to spoil this film but the whole film is in the synopsis on IMDb. There's really nothing left to say.It's really bad. Don't watch this expecting some funny Samurai Cop B-film laughs. I don't know how this film is rated so high. It's Birdemic-levels of crap.

Although the plot of kidnapping humans for target practice has been done a million times before (and still is), no movie comes as close to the entertainment value of this. Here, bad army guys inadvertently kidnap Mike (unofficial middle name : Dramatic Casio Chord) Danton, a Vietnam vet played by male model Ted Prior. And after letting him loose in the forest armed with only a sawn-off pair of levi's and a particularly offensive mullet, Mike turns the tables on the most inept bunch of soldiers.You will laugh! You will laugh again! You can feel the tension gripping you to the couch as the next bad guy positions himself into an easily ambush-able place. You will see Cameron Mitchell deliver his best speech ever. You will see tiny grenade explosions hurl people several feet through the air. You will never see a more lethal twig in your entire life or more effective camouflage from a handful of leaves. The one-man army action movies from the 80's (think along the lines of Commando/Rambo) may have been awesome at the time and despite aging, entertain today in the same way a piece of well-matured piece of cheese tastes more delectable than something eaten fresh from the dairy. Deadly Prey is no exception, the only difference being budget. And acting. And direction. But it's still something to relish. Most films like this are best enjoyed over a few beers. Here I would recommend a few crackers and a nice bottle of chardonnay to truly honour this cheesy experience. Cheers!

Ask a group of people what the best movie ever made is, and you'll get a lot of different answers. Some will say "Star Wars", some "Citizen Kane", some "Taxi Driver" while others will say "The 400 Blows". They are all wrong, because the best movie ever made in "Deadly Prey". Now some, particularly the losers who like "Citizen Kane" will disagree with this, but much like the crowd that crucified Jesus, they know not what they do. Anyway, "Deadly Prey" is super-duper neato because it has all the elements a classic movie should have like scalping, arms being cut off, lots of shootings, stabbings, a guy fighting a tank, a guy getting a hand grenade in his pants and other such goodies. It also has Ted Prior in the role of Mike Danton, who as the film's tagline tells us was not only the best in Vietnam, but also remains the best. He was truly robbed at Oscar time, as this is not only the finest performance of the 1980's, but also of all movies ever made. He is boss and so is Cameron Mitchell. Cameron Mitchell plays this old cop who is able to infiltrate a militia camp without being caught. This movie is also a great mystery as we are never told why exactly all this is happening. I like that, as I hate when movies feel the need to spell everything out for the audience. Thankfully "Deadly Prey" has far more respect for the intelligence of its audience and that's why it is boss. Seriously, this film is totally groovy from the first frame to the last frame and if you don't like it then you are stupid. I know it sounds harsh, but it's also true, so there.