This is depleted uranium sold on the black market to smugglers wearing fur coats on their own personal yachts. Hell this is better than gold, this is platinum. Ted's one liners ("Don't kill me I just joined today!", "BAD TIMING.") The fact that the film features somebody called Colonel Hogan! It's pure gold from start to finish. The glorious power rock guitar solos and electric drums that play throughout. The outfit that the one female member of the mercenaries wears. The over-the-top yet badly performed violence, complete with stock footage explosions. The bad, bad acting from everyone involved (especially Danton's girlfriend her scene dictating a number plate to her father, Cameron Mitchell, is hysterical). The hilarious denim shorts (and nothing else) outfit of Ted Prior. There is just so much to love in the movie. "Danton? Man I haven't seen you since the time you took the bullet trying to save my life." However what they don't realise is that Danton was originally trained by the Colonel! The hunted has become the hunter, and all that! When he comes to he is quickly forced to run as the prey in a deadly game of hunt to kill, with the team of aforementioned mercenaries chasing him down. While putting the bins out in his fashionable denim shorts and sloppy joe ensemble, Mike Danton ( Ted Prior) gets hauled off the street by some guys in a van and knocked out. John Hogan ( David Campbell) to now include hunting man for sport. A team of mercenaries have stepped up their training under the leadership of Col. well, it's just sad.īasically you are getting a cheap version of Hard Target and Surviving the Game (though both of those movies were made later). When you think of all the sub-par action movies that have received DVD treatment but solid gold such as Deadly Prey remains only available on decades old VHS tapes and the thriving bootleg DVD scene. This is solid gold bad-action entertainment, and it's criminal that there hasn't been a DVD release for it yet. It's pretty hard to add to this awesome movie more than what the DTV Connoisseur or Comeuppance Reviews have. Also I rarely shamelessly plug my stuff, but do check out my VHS collectables Tumblr photo blog if you haven't already. The eagle eyed amongst you will have noticed the blog has received a minor facelift to celebrate the milestone. What better movie to celebrate this milestone than the absolutely spectacular Deadly Prey? I can't think of any movie more fitting. Whilst the blog post count is a little higher thanks to a few special posts, this review marks the 100th macho example of action fantastic we've explored since starting this blog in May of 2010, beginning with Peter Weller's underrated Shakedown. Trust us.Well it took longer than I had initially hoped but we arrive here at last. Nothing is more important to you right now. So we rarely say this, but stop what you are doing - don't listen to this podcast episode, go watch Deadly Prey and then come back. This is just bad film-making at its very best. The last 5 minutes of the movie will blow your mind and when the credits roll, you'll stand up and clap. From the very first shot (when does that take place?) to the very last frame you are in. I could talk about Danton all day but there was also a phenomenal movie that happened as well. Because their on-screen symbiosis is unbreakable. So again, did Ted Prior play Danton or did the spirit of Danton come down from Olympus and possess good ol' Ted. 2000 years ago, poets would have told tale of Danton to travelers and bards would have sung his adventures. Maybe more like Thor, Hercules, or Achilles. Danton is like a chimera, unicorn, or the Minotaur. If you were talking films with a person that you'd just met, say at work or at class and they casually said, "So have you ever seen a movie called Deadly Prey?" there is potential that you might become best friends. There may only be a handful of movies better to view than Deadly Prey and we couldn't argue with anyone if they put it at the top of their list. It is as good to watch as any "good" movie and is only topped by the very creme of the crap in bad movies. It has instantly gone into our Hall of Fame because it does everything right in both good storytelling and horrendously terrible film-making.
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