Artivels Undescribable Perfection

Baseshment I like movies that are aware of what they are selling... without [any] greater aspirations than to make people laugh and that's it.

Grimossfer Clever and entertaining enough to recommend even to members of the 1%

Ariella Broughton It is neither dumb nor smart enough to be fun, and spends way too much time with its boring human characters.

WisdomsHammer A carnivorous, shape-shifting alien becomes the guest of an unwitting couple consisting of a paranoid and possessive lesbian and her naive lover. They take him in on the premise that he's hurt because he's limping, and, for the most part, dismiss his odd behavior. This is really two horror movies in one, and I loved that idea. The dangerous alien as one aspect and the abusive relationship as the other. Who is the real monster? Which is more scary? I enjoyed it overall, but this thing kind of goes off the rails in a few places. There is a slow motion scene with all of them in the water that is particularly over the top and goes on for way too long. I found the beginning and the end to be particularly enthralling, but could do without most of the middle story, a lot of which I found vague and at times laughable. The worst part about this for me was the sound. Much of the dialogue was so soft it's unintelligible while the soundtrack was blaring. Worth a watch for an interesting premise, beginning, and great ending.

BA_Harrison Popping a Norman J Warren movie into the DVD player is always something of a gamble: sometimes they're awful in almost every way imaginable (Inseminoid); sometimes they simply make no sense at all (Bloody New Year); occasionally they prove entertaining despite a total lack of logic and technical ineptitude (Terror).Prey falls into the last category: it's got a completely bizarre and unpredictable plot and is far from what I would call a great piece of film-making, but there's something about it that I find irresistible (and I'm not just talking about the hot lesbian sex scene!).I love it's completely off-kilter plot—a carnivorous, dog-nosed alien that assumes human guise and imposes himself on a pair of lesbians, one of whom is an insane control freak with a murderous past. I love it's shoddy make-up and gore. I love the crazy dyke with the jealous streak. I love the alien's bizarre party outfit (a black frock and a touch of lippy!!!). I love the silly surprise ending.Of course, the hot lesbian sex scene doesn't hurt much either.

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.

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.