ThiefHott Too much of everything

Adeel Hail Unshakable, witty and deeply felt, the film will be paying emotional dividends for a long, long time.

Philippa All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

Bob This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

TheExpatriate700 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.

The_Film_Cricket Call it a dilemma that is as old as screen writing itself. How do you bait your Alien Vampire movie with the proper cheese to draw an audience like hungry rats? The answer: You thrown in a hot and heavy lesbian subplot, that's how.This is where I would usually say "Makes me proud to be an American" except for the fact that the movie was made in France and it would be silly to make such a statement about being an American when the film comes from France and not the USA. Oh I could have easily not told you that this was a French film and assumed that you would never ask but then you would have looked at the poster and discovered for yourself the movie's country of origin and then you would be giving sideways glances at your computer screen and wondering what kind of misinformed dunderhead was at the other end of this review and then decided for yourself that you didn't want to read anymore of his reviews based on the simple fact that he doesn't do his homework in preparation and assumes that his readers have short attention spans and won't notice anything so piddly and meaningless anyway.Don't give me that look, it's 3am Anyway, what was I talking about? Oh yes, lesbians. The movie is simply three kinds of movies grafted onto one another. It's an alien invasion movie, a vampire tale and a lesbian love story. The first two seem pretty sound, the third seems to come out of nowhere.In England, (Remember this movie was made in France) a lesbian couple Jennifer and her rather mannish lover Jo live a carefree life out in the middle of nowhere. What does that have to do with aliens? Well, basically it means that they have no help when the invasion begins but it also means that the two get to strut around the house naked as a jaybird. In other word no, it has nothing to do with aliens.One night a spaceship lands (oh good . . . REALITY!!) and out comes a creature who takes the form of a skinny lad that the creature easily does away with. Posing as a man named Anders Anderson (his real name is Kator) he attempts to infiltrate the house owned by our Saphic duo and make them into food for his trip home. He is a vampire cannibal as evidenced by the 300 or so shots where he bares his fangs.The couple obviously doesn't know that Anders is an alien-cannibal-vampire and when he enters their home he causes a bit of a rift between the girls. Joe doesn't like anyone messing around with her best girl (Jennifer, we later learn, plays both sides of the fence) and especially has a problem when she figures out that Jennifer and Anders have shared the same bed. Why is Jennifer a bisexual? Well because if she weren't then we would be spared some gratuitous sideways mambo shared by Jenn and Anders shortly before he nibbles her neck - the hard way. Anders and Jo discuss the problem when Jo tries to bury the hatchet - In his head!! That rather dubious negotiating tactic fails when Jo is killed by Anders who makes a meal out of her too.Then there's some business about an old boyfriend of Jennifer's named Simon who we surmise was done away with by the jealous Jo but the movie forgets that in order to get to some very silly business involving the last words of Wally the talking parrot. Believe me, the less said about this . . . the better.The word "weird" doesn't begin to describe it, but for your sake I haven't really begun to describe it either. Just start with the information that it's a French production, set in England with an English cast and then dubbed into French (at least when I saw it). If you consider this and the fact that that no audience would have ever been drawn to the movie this deadbeat without the graphic lesbian love story, you have to ask yourself: Did they really have a choice?

Aaron1375 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.

Libretio PREY Aspect ratio: 1.37:1Sound format: MonoA lesbian couple (Sally Faulkner and Glory Annan) living in a remote country house are driven apart by the arrival of a young man (Barry Stokes) who turns out to be a flesh-eating alien, the vanguard of a massive invasion...Despite its shoestring budget and leaden pacing, Norman J. Warren's follow-up to SATAN'S SLAVE (1976) amounts to a great deal more than the sum of its meager parts, thanks to a surprisingly complex script by Max Cuff (apparently, his only writing credit): Faulkner and Annan indulge an obsessive relationship whilst living in isolated splendor within the English countryside (rendered alternately beautiful and ominous by Derek V. Browne's eye-catching cinematography), though Annan's discovery of bloodstained clothing in an upstairs room marks one (or both) of these doe-eyed lovelies as psychologically disturbed, which may explain the absence of their respective families, some of whom appear to have lived in the house at one time or another and 'left' under mysterious circumstances. Stokes' unexpected arrival throws the relationship into disarray, partly because Faulkner has a pathological hatred of men and partly because Annan is attracted to him, creating tensions which result in a climactic whirlwind of violence. There's an extraordinary, multi-layered sequence in which Faulkner attempts to 'emasculate' their clueless visitor by dressing him in women's clothing, though Stokes' alien mentality allows him to rise above the intended mockery.In the early scenes, at least, the relationship between Faulkner and Annan is depicted with uncommon grace and dignity, but this heartfelt sapphic liaison quickly devolves into crowd-pleasing episodes of sex and pulchritude, culminating in an explosion of horror when Annan allows herself to be ravished by Stokes following a violent argument with Faulkner. The closing sequences are (quite literally) gut-wrenching, especially Annan's final scene, which appears to have been clipped for censorship reasons in 1977 and never fully restored (what remains is still pretty vivid, so brace yourselves!). Excellent performances by the three leads, bolstered by Warren's unobtrusive direction, which takes full advantage of the stunning woodland locations, thereby compensating for the film's budgetary shortcomings. Originally released in the US as ALIEN PREY.