One of the best movies of the year! Incredible from the beginning to the end.

The thing I enjoyed most about the film is the fact that it doesn't shy away from being a super-sized-cliche;

The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

Mostly, the movie is committed to the value of a good time.

Prey (1977) ** 1/2 (out of 4)A spaceship lands in a wooden area where the alien (Barry Stokes) comes across a couple making love. He kills the man and takes over his identity under the name Anders. He then stumbles upon a house where the lesbians Josephine (Sally Faulkner) and Jessica (Glory Annen) live. The meaner Josephine doesn't want him to stay but Jessica feels that he's injured and allows it. Soon the alien begins to see what life on Earth is all about.Norman J. Warren's PREY is a pretty strange movie. It's basically hiding under a science fiction film but it has a lot more in common with some sort of art house drama. There's no question that the film is well-made and it's quite different from other films like it but I'm really not sure how many people are going to be willing to put up with it because the truth is that very little actually happens and the film is quite slow.What we've basically got here is a character study between the two ladies and of course the alien is living among them without them knowing who exactly he is. We've seen this type of film going back to the 1950s when aliens were all the craze. They come to live among humans to see how they act towards one another. That's certainly nothing new but Warren at least makes his own mark with the film because it doesn't try to have the alien take over the world or deliver any sort of message. He's basically just hear watching this couple.I give the director a lot of credit for trying to break away from the norm and deliver something fresh and original. The film is certainly original in the way it plays out but as I said, I'm just not sure most people are going to find it interesting enough to stick with it until the end. There's no doubt that it's slow moving and there are some other problems with the film including some rather silly performances at times.With that said, I did like the look of the alien creature. It's too bad that more of him wasn't seen because the make up is quite effective for what it is. I also thought the ending was terrific and managed to pack a nice little punch. Of the cast, I'd argue that Annen was the best and she certainly made the picture a lot more entertaining with her performance and charm.

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.

I'm glad I didn't go out and buy, or even rent this movie, but watching the low-resolution version on MovieFlix.com was enjoyable enough.Glory Annen played the best character, the somewhat vapid lover of the older lesbian. Trapped in a relationship that doesn't really excite her that much, and wanting to learn more, she plays a key role in bringing the "newcomer" into their lives.This movie was nothing special, fairly typical, if a bit kinkier than usual, Brit fare. But it was entertaining enough to watch it all the way through, which is more than I can say for a lot of films I've watched lately. A mildly interesting plot, a totally hokey alien, enough skin for the prurient, something to make a bowl of popcorn and watch when you have naught else to do.

Instantly watchable and delightfully cheap British sci-fi finds a male alien missionary on Earth being taken in as a house-guest by an unsuspecting separatist lesbian couple. The true fanged creature is concealed beneath a stolen body, but occasionally emerges during conflicts and feeding frenzies(and looks a bit like the titular terrors of THE BAT PEOPLE). The decidedly non-vegetarian visitor becomes caught in the middle of the womyns' peculiar psychodramas and recurring hostilities, and at one point is cross-dressed by them and finds new pleasures in the consumption of champagne....allthewhile drooling over a pet bird they have kept in a hanging cage.This film, for all its misgivings, remains one of the more "out there" entries in the sci-fi/horror genre...a bad film, to be sure, but one recommendable for its sheer uncommonness. At least they were clearly trying for something altogether different...and they sure did succeed in that task.5.5 out of 10 -- for decent performances and overall...erm...queerness.