VividSimon Simply Perfect

Micitype Pretty Good

Brendon Jones It’s fine. It's literally the definition of a fine movie. You’ve seen it before, you know every beat and outcome before the characters even do. Only question is how much escapism you’re looking for.

Sameer Callahan It really made me laugh, but for some moments I was tearing up because I could relate so much.

nammage The alien, who looks sort of like a cheap imitation of a werewolf, and in any other cheap horror flick, could very well be one; though, of course this is Sci-Fi. It's not a long movie, and there really isn't much action minus a sort of consensual sex scene turned rape, and mutilation by the "alien" eating her, literally. And but for the sensual yet erotic sex scene dealing with the two main female characters, which for this type of film, I actually found to be tasteful, there's really not much else going for this film. Even when the alien dresses up in drag, seemed nonchalant. A part of me wishes they delved more into the story but, eh.

Woodyanders An strange man named Anders (an effectively awkward and freaky performance by Barry Stokes) seeks refuge at the remote rural country cottage of bitter, man-hating, domineering lesbian Josephine (a deliciously spiky and venomous portrayal by the lovely Sally Faulkner) and her sweet, timid lover Jessica (an appealing turn by the cute Glory Annen). Unbeknownst to the ladies, Anders is really a lethal and predatory cannibalistic alien who's on a surveillance mission to find a food source for his race. Director Norman J. Warren, working from a compact and compelling script by Max Cuff, relates the arrestingly peculiar story at a slow, yet steady pace and does an expert job of creating and maintaining a tense, edgy and uncomfortable atmosphere that ultimately culminates in a grisly and terrifying conclusion with an extremely chilling last line. Moreover, Warren delivers a pleasingly abundant amount of in-your-face hideous graphic gore, tasty female nudity, and sizzling soft-core sex to further spice things up. The central narrative offers a weird and pointed critique on prim'n'proper English manners that reaches its gloriously off-center apex with a supremely uneasy and unnerving costume party sequence. The three leads all do strong work with their sharply drawn characters, with Faulkner a stand-out as the spiteful and possessive Josephine. Better still, there's no obtrusive silly humor to detract from the stark severity of the refreshingly grim and brutal horror. Derek V. Browne's fairly slick cinematography astutely nails the pervasive isolation and vulnerability of the sylvan setting while Ivor Slaney's shivery score does the spine-tingling trick. Well worth a look.

Steve Nyland (Squonkamatic) I guess it will depend on your point of view. Lovers of action and mind-numbed attention deficit disorder entertainment will find ALIEN PREY slow & boring. Those who are perhaps a bit more open minded will probably find it to be slow & rewarding. Then there are deviants like myself who will consider it to be a minor miracle. Here's a movie made for maybe $100,000, with a cast of six people, mixing alien invasion angst with lesbians, cannibalism, psycho killers, cross dressing, relationship dynamics, fish-out-of-water "discovery" subplots, new age lifestyle politics, coming-of-age "awakening" dramas, cannibalism, rough sex, and gender identity issues, and yet somehow, miraculously, it manages to work.I checked the spoiler button so to cover my ass as I go for broke here describing the film, which on the surface appears to be about an alien scout sent to Earth to find out if humans make good eating. Inhabiting the form of a tall dark human male (Barry Stokes, successfully channeling the Somnabulent from CABINET OF DR. CALIGARI) chosen at random from handy passers by. He murders the only three other people in the supporting cast, eviscerates their corpses, and then takes up with a pair of lesbians living at an isolated country manor. There he embarks upon a study of humans that involves watching the ladies frolic in bed together, getting drunk, upchucking their horrid vegetarian food, and eventually eating them instead.Things get interesting when it is revealed that this lesbian couple is not exactly living in happy bliss, with a recurring motif of caged or captive animals serving as a dingwopper hint that the sullen, mousy looking older lesbian (British TV veteran Sally Faulkner) is holding the pretty outgoing younger one (poor Glory Annen, appealing even with her unshaven armpits) captive in her own house. Hints at their mutual background suggest that the older woman has committed murder at least once to keep the younger hottie to herself, displaying bipolar psychopathic behavior at the slightest hint that the young thing might want to leave. Then while searching for a change of clothes for their guest the young woman finds a phallic symbol switchblade knife that is about as big as a baseball bat, puts two & two together, and realizes that the older woman plans to kill their uninvited guest.The film then becomes a psychological drama about who'll turn to violence first: The bloodthirsty alien, the psychopathic lesbian, or the young woman yearning for her freedom from the domination she has come to resent even while enjoying the sex. There's a shotgun, a champagne fueled party that devolves into a screaming match, and for kicks the two ladies dress up the alien cannibal in an evening gown & take turns brushing up against his leg. Characters hurry from room to room throughout the movie (no doubt partly due to the ad hoc scriptwriting done on the spot during the 10 days of photography), pretending that nothing is amiss, and all the while the tension grows until it spins out of control. Director Norman J. Warren puts off the inevitable for 75 minutes of setup and unleashes his traditional assault of sex, gore, blood, and bile in the final 10 minutes, which are still mighty potent after thirty one years.Some may find it all a bit too studied but there's no question that the people who made this movie were extremely sick, twisted individuals who also had an artistic vision in mind and executed it swimmingly in the face of all reason. My advice would be not to approach this as a horror film so much as a low budget psychological domestic sex thriller that just happens to feature a gut munching cannibal who is possessed by an alien. Go figure.6/10

The_Void Prey is, effectively, two movies. We have a film about an alien coming down from space to wreak havoc on the human race, and then we have the story of a man infiltrating a lesbian relationship. This does give the film more than enough to go on when it comes to keeping things entertaining; but on the other hand, the whole alien plot actually gets in the way of the other plot and while I essentially saw this movie because it's a horror film; it's the horror that spoils it! However, while it certainly does have it's failures; Prey is a movie that was obviously shot on a very low budget and since it is a rather original take on a common movie theme; it does deserve a lot of plaudits. The movie begins with a scene that sees a young couple in a car. After a bright light in the sky, the man gets out and ends up becoming possessed by the alien before killing the girl. This all happens not far from the home of Jessica and Josephine; a pair of lesbians living in a beautiful large house. After meeting the alien and seeing him hurt, they invite him in to stay with them.The film is directed by Norman J Warren and that will be enough to put some viewers off I'm sure; as the director of such rubbish as Bloody New Year and Satan's Slave is not exactly well known for making good horror films. However, this is a cut above and surely his best work. That's not to say it's anything like high quality however! The acting is extremely poor in places and the plot doesn't exactly move smoothly; and that isn't helped by some extremely trite and stupid dialogue! The lesbian couple is much better portrayed than the alien and both do actually have some character and the dynamics of their relationship has a huge effect on how the story moves. The alien, played unconvincingly by Barry Stokes, is extremely poor and the performance relies too much on the alien not knowing much about Earth, which soon gets tiresome. However, it's only short and the weird goings on (such as a fox hunt and the alien being dressed as a woman) have a sort of surreal quirk to them. It all boils down to a gratuitous ending that works quite well. Overall, this is not great by any means; but it's an interesting cult gem and is at least worth seeing.