![]() In addition to his killing prowess, the movie shows off Danton’s keen survival skills. It would have been a much shorter movie if he began that way, but then we wouldn’t get to see him push a mound of rocks down a cliff onto his enemies like he was Wile E. Near the end, he breaks down and uses a gun, which, as it turns out, is much more efficient than a spear. His improvisational kills are the best, hoisting a guy and snapping his back against a tree, impaling a dude with a twig, stuffing a grenade down some poor schmuck’s pants. He likes his knife, so there are multiple stabbings, but he also uses it for whittling spears (rather than picking up one of the dozens of assault rifles dropped by his victims). When he’s not killing someone, he’s preparing to kill someone, and the movie excels in coming up with new ways for Danton to kill people. The theme: Ted Prior is awesome.Ī musclebound slab with a voice akin to a low frequency seismic vibration, Ted Prior’s Danton is a man of action. ![]() What it lacks in, well, everything resembling quality, it makes up for in pure enthusiasm and dedication to its theme. ![]() Ostensibly, it has a The Most Dangerous Game premise (see also: Turkey Shoot, Surviving the Game), but the plot is really only an excuse to kill as many nameless bad guys as possible. Take the most mindless action flick you can imagine, remove all the nuance and plausibility, and you have Deadly Prey. Soon they find that the hunters have become…well, you know where this is going.įull disclosure: Deadly Prey is a rock stupid movie. However, they make a serious (and wildly coincidental) error when Thornton snatches Mike Danton (Ted Prior), the deadliest Special Forces operative Hogan ever trained. Thornton (Fritz Matthews), pick up random saps off the street and set them loose in the woods for his men to hunt down. His favorite war game is having his right- hand thug, Lt. Hogan (David Campbell) is training an army of mercenaries for vague and undefined reasons. The movie’s plot goes like this: the Nefarious Col. The 1987, low-budget action extravaganza Deadly Prey is one such movie. I’m always looking for an undiscovered, lunkheaded gem, and every once in a while I find a movie that exceeds my expectations, a movie that is so loaded with absurdity it is like an embarrassment of riches, or, more accurately, an embarrassment of embarrassments. ![]() Where some laugh at the stupidity, I also laugh at the stupidity, but in a more endearing way. Where some see incompetence, I see quirk. ![]() This movie is a rollicking good time in the trash cinema genre!The film is currently available on Amazon Prime.As you know (or will understand after reading this sentence), I love a ridiculous movie. There are oodles of shitty explosions, excessive gun cocking, and consistently bad hand-to-hand combat techniques. Their general lack of ability will be their death knell when Danton gets free and starts picking them off one-by-one. These mercs are training for a mission that is never explained and they all seem to be rather incompetent. The leader of these mercs is Colonel John Hogan (played by David Campbell) who himself is at the mercy of a suited mystery man named Michaelson (played by veteran actor Troy Donahue). Welp, if that ain't a ringing endorsement, I dunno what is.It tells the story of Mike Danton (play by March 1984 Playgirl Man of the Month Ted Prior) who get's kidnapped by a band of mercenaries who train for some oblique mission by hunting civilians running for their lives. Prior (Deadliest Prey, Killzone, Jungle Assault), TV Guide called the film a wretched Rambo ripoff, while Morning Movie Review said Holy cowhis movie is a good time. A story about survival, grenades, jean shorts, and abs.Listen in as me and my guest and fellow podcaster, Cam, zip up our jorts, sharpen our boobytrap spikes, and hunt down this film's sauce rating.Written and directed by David A. ![]()
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