Deadly Prey

Some friends of mine gave me this movie and said:" You have to see this movie! It's the worst movie ever made, bar none." I must say i agree. It was quite humorous at times, though, and i kind of enjoyed laughing my ass off. The hero, Ted Prior actually cuts a mans arm of and beats him with it!!! Unbelievable? Believe it! These people have managed to put every cliche available into this movie. On the cover it reads: "He was the best in Vietnam...and he still is!" Watch this movie, laugh your ass off and go about your day as though nothing has happened,because...nothing has!

Beefcake "actor" Ted Prior (brother of writer & director David A. Prior) stars as Mike Danton, a former Marine, in this B level gem. It's about as far as you can get from high art, with a whole lot of completely inept action sequences and hilariously lame performances. Obviously owing a heavy debt to that familiar old plot of "The Most Dangerous Game", it's also clearly inspired by "First Blood" and its sequels, as well as "Commando". Colonel John Hogan (David Campbell) leads a group of mercenaries. They're hired for a gig by an unscrupulous "businessman" named Michaelson (Troy Donahue). The thing about these guys, though, is that they like to have thorough training sessions before the actual missions. So they abduct guys like Mike, and chase them through the California woods. But they've made an extremely dumb move in selecting Mike this time around, and he's going to give them what-for in a major way. Top billed Cameron Mitchell, who plays a former cop and the father to Mikes' wife Jaimy (Suzanne Tara), is very much just here for his name value. He has little to add to the plot. Instead, the action focuses on the studly Ted P., who for much of the running time darts around in short shorts. Ted may not be Olivier, but his emoting near the end still needs to be seen to be believed. Campbell is amusing as the money hungry villain, as is Fritz Matthews as Lieutenant Thornton, his main henchman. "Deadly Prey" can boast a steady supply of violence and a respectably high body count, but it might not be gory enough to suit some tastes. The absolute best moment of this epic occurs between Mike and Thornton. You'll know it when you see it, and may howl with appreciative laughter. "Deadly Prey" is deliciously daft nonsense, with an ultra corny theme song to serve as perfect accompaniment. Seven out of 10.

Since there were a fair amount of cost-cutter Rambo rip-offs, finding the ripest one isn't as easy as it would seem, but no doubt DEADLY PREY is a prime choice. It's a one-man-army saga made on the ranch in L.A., with mini muscle-dude, Ted Prior, stripped to his cutoffs and hunted for sport by a bunch of p***ed-off militia dudes. As misguided and inept a macho potboiler as one could imagine. Give me librium or give me meth!!!

Was unlucky enough to see this while travelling by coach across Africa. It was far and away the worst film I have ever come across. Deserves to be the #1 all-time worst ;-) No acting, no plot, very little speaking. Lots of ape-like grunting though, in this hopelessly unlikely film. An unwitting self-satire - you'll either laugh at it or cry.

This was an absolute mess of a movie, with poor acting, editing and dialogue. The scenes where Danton rips the guy's arm off and then beats him with it would be screamingly funny if it weren't so pathetic, and the ending is worthy of any Saturday Night Live skit. Please don't waste your time. This is gharish.

"Deadly Prey" has to be one of the funniest action movies of all times, and this is not because it is supposed to be. It's hard to pick out a place to start with this movie, so why not from the beginning. This movie is much like "Surviving the Game" but has a much lower budget and much worse production value. Mike Danton is kidnapped by a group of mercenaries that just happen to be headed by his former Special Forces commanding officer, Colonel Hogan. WHAT A PLOT TWIST! What I really don't understand is why Danton killed so many of Hogan's soldiers, removing their automatic weapons from their dead body, but NEVER USING THEM TO KILL THE MERCENARIES TRYING TO KILL HIM!!! For such a great soldier, Danton doesn't show very good judgement. Besides the typical amputation of a mercenary's arm with a machete, running a twig on through another mercenary's body, and a great movie score, composed of continual 'DUN DUN DUN' sound effects, Deadly Prey is chock full of many surprises, all which will leave you desiring to re-acquire the hour and a half you spent on watching this movie back. 3 out of 10 stars simply for the "Plan 9 From Outer Space" quality it has. I would also recommend "Born Killer" for any fans of "Deadly Prey" Happy watching.

This film is one of the true masterpieces of cinema. The story revolves around a strangely easy to find training school for mercenaries near los angeles that uses kidnapped people as live targets! The practice is going well until they mistakenly kidnap the best special forces guy ever and he goes and kicks their heads in! The acting is crap, the mulletts are the best that the eighties can produce and EVERYBODY in the film dies apart from our hero, EVERYBODY!!! The hero mike danton is the best killer of extras in film history, so good in fact that the other extras never hear them die even right in front of them! Hell he even manages to kill them with twigs and polystyrene He hides four foot up a tree and isn't spotted as they walk past, THEY ARE RIGHT THERE AND THEY DON'T SEE HIM, HE ONLY HAS A BIT OF IVY ROUND HIS NECK!!! The plot twists are non-existent and so predictable that you're counting down to when they happen. What i didn't expect was our hero to chop a guy's arm off and beat him to death with the wet end, before SCALPING the mullett toteing rambo wanabee! Me and my mates have watched this film many a time and are so influenced that my mate spent our first year of university dressed as mike danton! He would get drunk, disappear to his room and return sporting cut-offs, a gun belt with a rusty saw in it and a blonde mullet wig! (he also strangely wore a hard hat as well!) All our friends love this film and we would recommend it to anyone wanting to just laugh at something crap! ps why does col hogans bit wear a mini-skirt to go hunt down danton?

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.

I love this movie to the point that I found an e-mail address for Ted Prior's ex-wife and wrote to her. It thrills me to know that she passed on the regards of Ted's legion of Gold Coast fans to him. Please, if anyone is reading this and considering watching 'Deadly Prey', drop everything, quit your job, divorce your wife, rent it out and enjoy what is arguably the finest motion picture ever committed to celluloid.

Are you a man? Do you have frosted hair? Do you sleep in very short, denim cutoffs? Yes? Then this is the film for you. Because Ted Prior does. Ted Prior posed * in Playgirl and that worked for him because he didn't speak, didn't have any lines. Here? We are tortured by not only his bad acting but the bad acting of the rest of the cast. That's not the worst of it though. We're also subjected to bad sound, bad editing, horrible dialog and a tedious, relentless 88 minutes of men chasing other men and pretending to be blown up by low budget grenades and gun fire. But the acting isn't just bad, it's PAINFUL! Please don't waste your time on this. Your time is valuable. We're here for such a short time. You can't waste 88 minutes on something like this. Just watch Predator if you need something like this. You can watch it in short denim cutoffs.