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Ted Prior, David A. Prior, Fritz Matthews, David Campbell, Tara Kleinpeter, Cat Tomeny, Stephen Conroy, Clint Kelly, Dimitri SimakisSinopses(1)
Colonel Hogan is still alive and just getting out of prison. But he has only one thing in mind and that is revenge on Mike Danton. So once again, Hogan puts together a group of mercenaries, has Danton kidnapped, and the games begin. Some people just do not learn... (The Shockproof Film Festival)
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Part sequel, part “retirement” remake of the insane B-movie banger Deadly Prey, which became a trash cult-classic thanks to its wonderfully clunky action scenes and clunky wannabe badass attitude. Fans will be delighted to know that the original cast members are also returning to their original roles to have another crack at being young again with director David Prior after almost 30 years. They're no longer the fittest in terms of movement (they don't even try to dodge flying bullets anymore), but they still got it. Ted Prior is no longer running around the woods in denim shorts, but the typical 80s homoerotic undertones are definitely not missing. In fact, the sexual tension between the protagonists and the main villain is directly mentioned by the villain's sexy assistant. Over the years, David Prior has retained a youthful exuberance and an unfamiliarity with basic directorial techniques such as the rule of the axis (so that characters talking or shooting at each other sometimes look the other way), and as a result he still gives diehard fans what they expect from him. The charm of the original (plankish acting, stupid dialogue and absurd twists) is still there, and in addition to that, Prior also tries to impress today's audiences, which is customary with reboots. Thus, the internet, hackers and nerds speaking today's teenage slang play a big role in the film. But who knows how many new, viewers uninitiated in the 1980s it will win over (and if today's bad-movie lovers would prefer something extremely cool like Sharknado). The film was shot on digital and there are a lot of bad CGI effects, which makes it feel somewhat sterile compared to the first one. But it's still pure old-school action that doesn't hold anything back, doesn't mess with anything, and entertains with its over-the-top, muscular language and dry one-liners. I had a hundred times more fun with it than with the new Kickboxer.
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Rather than a proper sequel, Deadliest Prey is both a remake of and an adoring tribute to the legendary trash flick Deadly Prey. More than two decades after its initial release, the classic bumbling opus by the undiscerning autodidact David A. Prior and his steroid-guzzling brother Ted Prior is now considered to be a cult artifact. Furthermore, the generation of his admirers who discovered him on VHS as teenagers is now of productive age, enabling David to fully fund his adolescent obsessions. Thanks to those admirers, the Prior brothers willingly returned to their greatest and – let’s be honest – only famous title and they set out to exploit their revived fame in the spirit of Stallone’s The Expendables. The original Deadly Prey was made basically as an enthusiasts’ project by a group of friends, which incidentally received backing from the trash factory Action International Pictures, and the new film is also the equivalent of a community-theatre production made by the original group in collaboration with their admirers for all of the ardent fans of Deadly Prey. If we leave aside the passages with the honorary roles for the enthusiast producers (A. Wade Miller and Fabio Soldani) and the group of film nerds who were instrumental in reviving or rather for establishing the cult of the Priors (Dimitri Simakis of Everything is Terrible! and Zack Carlson of the Alamo cinema), the film is composed exclusively of passages that copy, paraphrase or reference identical sequences in the original film. At its core, Deadliest Prey is thus an attempt to step into the same river a second time, which on the one hand simply gives fans exactly what they want, but at the same time we can also caustically observe it as evidence of the fact that David A. Prior has not in any way advanced in his creative career. He continues to shoot films using the disarming absolute frame technique, where the characters see nothing beyond the boundary of the camera shot, so we again enjoy a number of shots that should have ended a second or two earlier instead of just leaving the actors blankly staring into space after saying their lines. Of course, the main attraction is the return of the old ensemble, particularly Ted Prior, who at least looks relatively good for his age despite having lost his iconic mullet, though unfortunately also David Campbell, who has severe motoric problems and on whom alcohol has taken an obvious toll, and even Fritz Matthews appears as the killer Thornton, who seems to have gained two hundred kilos. In addition to the spectacular entertainment at the expense of the creators in terms of amateur acting, dismal craftsmanship, blatantly edited-in effects, would-be tough-guy lines and, of course, loads of satisfying allusions to the iconic moments of Deadly Prey, the Priors’ comeback is surprising with several moments of unintended self-reflection. The most telling of these is the scene in which Danton tells his son that he’s sorry that he dragged him into his problems, whereas in real life, this is what the worn-out Ted Prior says to his real son, who, together with his uncle David, was forced to participate in another chapter in the curse of the Prior family as mercilessly ridiculed bunglers who are condemned to eternally run around in the woods and play soldiers with replica rifles.
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