Alien Prey (1978) Prey (original title)

Director:

Norman J. Warren

Writers:

Max Cuff (writer)
Quinn Donoghue (story)

Genre:

Horror | Sci-Fi

Tagline:

His savage hunger makes us all... Alien Prey

Plot:

Jessica awakens when an alien spacecraft lands nearby. After dispatching a young couple, the alien assumes...

Plot Keywords:

Alien | Lesbian | Cannibalism | Bloodlust | Violence

Cast

Barry Stokes	...	Anders
Sally Faulkner	...	Josephine
Glory Annen	...	Jessica
Sandy Chinney	...	Sandy
Eddie Stacey	...	1st Policeman
Jerry Crampton	...	2nd Policeman
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Derek Kavanagh	...	Radio DJ (voice) (uncredited)

Directed by
Norman J. Warren

Writing credits (in alphabetical order)
Max Cuff		writer
Quinn Donoghue		story

Produced by
Terry Marcel	....	producer (as Terence Marcel)
Kevin J.J. O'Driscoll	....	executive producer
David Wimbury	....	producer

Original Music by
Ivor Slaney

Cinematography by
Derek V. Browne		(director of photography)

Film Editing by
Alan Jones

Art Direction by
Hayden Pearce

Makeup Department
Harry Frampton	....	makeup artist
Bobbie Smith	....	hair stylist

Production Management
Derek Kavanagh	....	production supervisor

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Nigel Goldsack	....	assistant director
Iain White	....	assistant director

Art Department
Charles Torbett	....	property master

Sound Department
Robin Gregory	....	sound mixer
Bob Jones	....	sound mixer
Jim Roddan	....	dubbing editor
Terry Sharratt	....	boom operator
Doug E. Turner	....	dubbing mixer

Stunts
Eddie Stacey	....	stunt coordinator

Camera and Electrical Department
George Boner	....	electrician
Nobby Cross	....	electrician
David Farrell	....	still photographer
Mike Frift	....	camera operator
Danny Shelmerdine	....	camera operator

Costume and Wardrobe Department
Tiny Nicholls	....	wardrobe

Editorial Department
Geraldine Eaton	....	assistant editor
Ean Wood	....	assistant editor

Transportation Department
Dan Cressy	....	transportation

Other crew
Mary Dalison	....	script supervisor
Beryl Harvey	....	production assistant
Lynda Levy	....	unit publicist
Francine Taylor	....	assistant to producers

Production Companies

• Tymar Film Productions

Distributors

• Premier Releasing (1978) (UK) (theatrical)
• Continental Video (1984) (USA) (VHS) (as Comet Video)
• Stablecane Ltd. (1986) (UK) (VHS)
• Arthouse Productions (1995) (UK) (VHS)
• Anchor Bay Entertainment (UK) (2004) (UK) (DVD)
• Redemption (2009) (USA) (DVD)
• Cinema Group Home Video (video)
• Image Entertainment (2004) (USA) (DVD)
• Intercontinental Home Entertainment (198?) (West Germany) (VHS)
• Mike Hunter Video (198?) (West Germany) (VHS)
• Mill Creek Entertainment (2011) (USA) (DVD)
• VEC (198?) (Canada) (video)
• Video for Pleasure (VFP) (????) (Netherlands) (VHS)

Other Companies

• B.B.R.K.  properties supplied by
• Delta Sound Services  sound
• Janet Reger  lingerie supplied by
• Joe Dunton Cameras  cameras
• Lee Electric  lights
• Sony U.K. Ltd.  audio and video equipment
• Theatre 3 Productions  music recorded at

Also Known As:

"Prey" - UK (original title)

Runtime:

78 min | USA:85 min

Country:

UK

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.66 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

UK:18 (video rating) | UK:X (original rating) | West Germany:16 | USA:Unrated

Filming Locations:

Shepperton Studios, Shepperton, Surrey, England, UK

Company:

Tymar Film Productions

Trivia:

The principal cast members wore their own clothes.

Goofs:

Miscellaneous: In the closing credits, actress Sally Faulkner's last name is misspelled. The 'n' is missing.

Movie Connections:

Featured in Evil Heritage: Independent Film-Making & the Films of Norman J. Warren (1999) (V)

Alien in dresses, battle-ax lesbians and celebrating dead foxes.

A quick peek at the IMDb trivia section teaches us that "Prey" was shot in only ten days and that most of the script actually had to be improvised during shooting. These usually aren't very good signs, especially not when the director already holds the reputation of delivering movies with a low level of quality. Norman J. Warren's other films (like "Inseminoid" and "Satan's Slave") are fun but extremely unoriginal, mainly revolving on graphic bloodshed and copious amounts gratuitous sleaze. "Prey" is exactly like that, but now he totally didn't even bother to come up with a script. The result is a bizarre and often laughable film that makes no sense whatsoever, but the whole ineptness is irresistibly charming nevertheless. The story goes like this: An alien, who goes by the name of Keator, arrives in rural England with a mission to research possible new food sources to save his whole species, but the poor sucker never makes it further than the isolated mansion of two crazed lesbians. He ends up living with them; they dress him up in women's clothing like he's their third lesbian toy-girl and together they hunt down a fox. When the poor animal is eventually dead, they celebrate it with a giant party, which is just a little over-the-top if you ask me. In the meantime, Keator – whose human name is Anders Anderson (!) – develops a more or less intimate relationship with the youngest lesbian and she slowly falls for him. For you see, she's not a real lesbian but just an insecure girl and the other is a scary dominatrix that literally forces the young girl to be her lover. It's a mad world, indeed. The whole middle-section of "Prey" is rather tedious and uneventful, and only hilariously cheesy & inept dialogs keep it tolerable to sit through. Then the climax is extremely gross and bloody with a sudden massacre. Surely the sick puppies and avid admirers of 70's exploitation will appreciate the graphic bloodshed of the finale, but it comes ridiculously abrupt, like Warren suddenly got tired of his film and wanted to end it, and it totally misfits the rest of the film's tone. "Prey" is a pretty bad but curiously intriguing 70's trash-film, inclusively intended for fans of this type of cinema.