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Prey

Original title: Prooi
  • 2016
  • Not Rated
  • 1h 48m
IMDb RATING
5.3/10
2.9K
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Mark Frost, Rienus Krul, Sophie van Winden, and Julian Looman in Prey (2016)
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A zoo veterinarian gets caught up in a grisly adventure as she finds herself leading the city-wide hunt for a monstrous lion terrorizing the Dutch capital of Amsterdam.A zoo veterinarian gets caught up in a grisly adventure as she finds herself leading the city-wide hunt for a monstrous lion terrorizing the Dutch capital of Amsterdam.A zoo veterinarian gets caught up in a grisly adventure as she finds herself leading the city-wide hunt for a monstrous lion terrorizing the Dutch capital of Amsterdam.

  • Director
    • Dick Maas
  • Writer
    • Dick Maas
  • Stars
    • Sophie van Winden
    • Julian Looman
    • Mark Frost
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    5.3/10
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    • Director
      • Dick Maas
    • Writer
      • Dick Maas
    • Stars
      • Sophie van Winden
      • Julian Looman
      • Mark Frost
    • 32User reviews
    • 41Critic reviews
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      • 1 nomination total

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    Sophie van Winden
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    • Lizzy
    Julian Looman
    Julian Looman
    • Dave
    Mark Frost
    Mark Frost
    • Jack
    Rienus Krul
    Rienus Krul
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    Theo Pont
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    5Leofwine_draca

    I've seen worse

    PREY (2016, original title Prooi) is the latest from Dutch director Dick Maas, whom you may remember from the 1980s and such films as THE LIFT and AMSTERDAMNED. Sadly his budgets have dwindled in the years since and inevitably there's been a drop in quality in his films, but his heart is still there and PREY is a story with a simple yet classic premise: a man-eating lion is let loose in the streets of Amsterdam and proceeds to go on a rampage of destruction.

    As a fan of nature-runs-amok type films this was an irresistable premise for me, and yet the film itself is only so-so. It doesn't help that the version showing on Prime is saddled with an appalling English dub track which makes the whole thing feel like a quirky comedy. The characters are ridiculous, particularly the greate white hunter with his state-of-the-art wheelchair complete with motorised tracks. However, there is a lot of killing and a good amount of gore, which at least counts in this film's favour. The lion is pure CGI but I've seen worse.
    6ma-cortes

    Decent and entertaining film about a huge lion on loose terrorizing and causing extreme massacre in Amsterdam

    A veterinarian (Sophie Van Widen) finds the tracks left by an animal that kills people result to be of a huge lion . As an enormous lion carries out a criminal spree in Netherlands . Then a wheelchair bound disabled man (Mark Frost) is asked for hunting it . He is a world-class hunter , competing several times in African hunts, however , long time ago , a lion injured him. Later on , a merciless wild hunt takes place . The beautiful veterinarian , her boyfriend (Looman) and the crippled hunter get caught in a dangerous adventure while the lion terrifying the Dutch capital of Amsterdam. As the giant lion roaming and lurking victims for a tasty meal . As three protagonists leading the city-wide hunt and confronting themselves one of nature's most fearsome predators which savagely attacking its preys , innocen humans .

    Creepy and eerie film with chills , thrills , scary attacks and lots of blood and gore. Furthermore , adding some brief touches of black comedy .The enormous lion delivers the goods with hair-raising chills, full of scares when the huge creature shows up and suddenly attacks .The lion images are made by a mix of digital special effects , C.G. and was also built animatronic for the close-up frames, creating a well-made manually operated lion. While the scenes appearing running and attacking in full were made by computer generator such as the pursuit set piece through Amsterdam when the monstrous lion chases the delivery boy on the scooter by the river .

    It contains colorful and brilliant cinematography . As well as atmospheric musical score by Dick Maas himself , as he regularly scores his own films , because not hiring an external composer allows him to save money for additional days of shooting . This grisly motion picture was professionally directed by Dick Maas . However , being his lowest grossing film as if 2016, though in China it got a big boxoffice . As Maas made a name for himself in far flung China as he sold his rights to a Chinese distributor , making in an over night hit in mainland China. Maas is considered to be one of the best Dutch filmmakers . His movies have high production values for Netherlands standards , usually including spectacular pursuits , blow up , known stars and uneven other Dutch directors his pictures are aimed at the international market. His first great success was the claustrophobic and tense The Lift , following Amsterdammned , Do not disturb , Quiz , Down , Saint , among others . And other successes in Flodder comedies as The Flodder in America , Flodder 3 and Flodder TV series . Rating 6/10 , acceptable passable and entertaining .
    6Fella_shibby

    A huge aggresive lion shows up in a city n we r never explained how he turned up ther but the film is entertaining with sufficient kills n black comedy.

    Also how the lion gets inside a moving tram is beyond my understanding. The film has moments of tension, lots of kills, one pretty disturbing scene regarding a small kid n cool effects.

    In my opinion i feel the director Dick Maas (i have enjoyed his The Lift) is very underrated.
    5Coventry

    In Amsterdam, the mighty city of Amsterdam, the Lion prowls tonight

    In case you live in The Netherlands (or the Flemish speaking part of Belgium, like yours truly does) and you're an avid fan of eccentric horror/cult cinema, well then you simply have to be an admirer of Dick Maas. He's pretty much the only writer/director of the entire Dutch region who dares to be different and even a tad bit crazy. After all, Maas is the hero who – during the glorious eighties' decade – brought us the phenomenal horror flicks "De Lift" (about a murderous elevator) and "Amsterdamned" (about a vicious murderer hiding out in the canal system), as well as the legendary black comedy "Flodder" (about an utterly demented dysfunctional family). More recently, in 2010, he also saddled up thousands of little Dutch children with incurable traumas by portraying Saint Nicholas (the local Santa) as a relentless monster. But the ideas behind his newest feature are perhaps the most grotesque and craziest ones of his entire career…

    In "Prey", Dick Maas unleashes a male lion – evidently an exceptionally large and unusually aggressive species – in the city center of Amsterdam; to my recollection still one of the busiest and least rural capitals of Europe. One could go for the so-called "suspension of disbelief" in case the script attempted to explain that the animal escaped from the local zoo or from the private collection of a foolish millionaire or something, but no… The lion simply shows up in Amsterdam and damned if we ever find out who or what brought him there. The closest we ever come to a clarification is a dumb piece of dialogue: "In Eastern countries people still keep lions as pets, and when they escape they don't report it to the police!" Yeah sure…

    But hey, let's at least try to forget for a moment that absolutely nothing in the script of "Prey" makes any sense. If you manage that, you're left with a completely over-the-top but entertaining creature-feature with a massive body count, tons of blood & gore, ridiculous slapstick comedy, a complete cast of imbecilic characters and a handful of cynical observations about the Dutch society. Throughout the opening sequences, Maas still attempts to pay tribute to "Jaws" and creates a moody atmosphere with ominous POV-shots and sinister music, but then he goes straight for trashy and mindless splatter fun. The lion munches his way through the crowded city without being spotted, so naturally the dumb cop and the cute zoo veterinarian have a difficult time alarming the press and the public. And yet, even when it's made abundantly clear there's a dangerous predator at large in town – that, by the way, already killed at least a dozen of people by then – the public still doesn't seem to be too panicky, as they cheerfully continue to walk their dogs at night, go to restaurants and hang around in the central park! Numerous sequences and plot twists are almost too ludicrous to describe, like when the lion gets on board of a city tram or when a crazy wannabe hunter and his retarded son are hired to ambush the animal in the park. The cute veterinarian eventually has to bring in her former lover, who used to be notorious hunter in Africa. A romance between a veterinarian and a hunter … Can it get any crazier? Of course it can, because the "fearsome" hunter turns out to be a driveling alcoholic Brit in a wheelchair!

    "Prey" is a pretty bad but immensely entertaining B-movie in every sense of the term! The acting performances are already terrible when the cast speaks in Dutch, but when they switch to English they become downright atrocious. The gore and make-up effects are decent, but look a little too "digital" and – like the case in most traditional creature features – the lion is most menacing when it remains off-screen. I genuinely hope that Dick Maas stays as stubborn and eccentric as he ever was, and that he continues with making these insane movies. It's not because "Prey" gets a low rating (I just don't have another choice) that I don't love and respect this man tremendously!
    7BA_Harrison

    Maas attacks!

    I admire Dick Maas: he doesn't let a stupid concept stop him from realising his vision. Killer elevators (Der Lift, Down), a murderous scuba-diver in the Dutch canal system (Amsterdamned), an evil Sinterklaas (Sint): all fairly preposterous, but executed with plenty of enthusiasm and fun. Now add 'man-eating lion with ninja-like stealth' to the list.

    Prey's 'mane attraction' is a 7ft big cat with a taste for human flesh, on the hunt in Holland's capital city. How it got there is left a little fuzzy. As is its ability to prowl the streets and parks of Amsterdam unseen or sneak on board a tram without so much as a 'hey, you gotta buy a ticket to ride, Aslan!'. No-one seems to notice the lion until it's too late. Not good for the citizens of Amsterdam, but good news for fans of trashy, gory horror - people get eaten left, right and centre, the lion leaving mangled body parts strewn all over.

    The acting is atrocious - or at least the English dubbing is - but the film's characters are enjoyably daft, with special mention going to Mark Frost as the English big-game hunter Jack, who is called in to try and track and kill the lion: he's only got one leg and travels around in a motorised wheelchair, but that doesn't stop him from going face to face with the ferocious big cat, even sacrificing his remaining leg to help lure it into a trap!

    It's probably a stretch to call Prey a 'roaring' success - the CGI used to realise the lion could have been better and the pacing is a little uneven - but Maas should take 'pride' in the fact that his film is still worth hunting down.

    6.5/10, rounded up to 7 for IMDb.

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    • Trivia
      Realizing that using a real, living lion was not possible, and since filming with wildlife is prohibited in the Amsterdam city area, the crew contacted Dutch animation director Erik De Boer, whose company was responsible for the computer-generated tiger in Life of Pi (2012). However, De Boer calculated that one scene alone with a fully computer-generated lion would cost about a million Euros (one-third of the entire budget). The crew then turned to a Dutch special effects company, who built a very detailed, manually operated animatronic lion for the close-up scenes. A computer-generated lion was used for a few scenes that showed the creature in full.
    • Goofs
      The police official, Mr Zalmberg, is introduced as the head of the investigation unit (of the Amsterdam police department), which has the rank of a commissioner. His shoulder boards belong to rank of head commissioner, or chief of police.
    • Connections
      Featured in The Cine-Masochist: THE LIFT (2021)

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    • Release date
      • October 13, 2016 (Netherlands)
    • Country of origin
      • Netherlands
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    • Language
      • Dutch
    • Also known as
      • Uncaged
    • Filming locations
      • Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands
    • Production companies
      • Shooting Star Filmcompany BV
      • Parachute Pictures
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      • €3,530,000 (estimated)
    • Gross worldwide
      • $6,820,723
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    • Runtime
      1 hour 48 minutes
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    • Sound mix
      • Dolby Digital
    • Aspect ratio
      • 2.35 : 1

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