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People are voting emotionally.

In other words,this film is a surreal ride.

All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

One of the film's great tricks is that, for a time, you think it will go down a rabbit hole of unrealistic glorification.

An alien lands on earth, takes over the body of a handsome young man & is taken in by a lesbian couple living in a large house in the English countryside. Brilliant!! Although this is a sci-fi/horror movie it is also very heavy on drama, focusing on the relationship between the three main characters. This may put some genre fans off but personally I thought it was engrossing & very well done. Plenty of nudity here, a few gory moments too. Eerie, effective soundtrack. The film does look cheap with it's low budget & apparently was filmed in only 10 days but this all adds to it's charm.

It's hard to root for the person most deserving of the young girl's affections in this film. Should it be the borderline psychotic jealous lesbian lover who may have possibly murdered a previous suitor or should you root for the carnivorous alien invader who has little interest in hanky panky and just wants to eat swans, foxes, chickens and policemen? I thought, upon reading the synopsis, that this would be a seventies bore fest, but I was really, really wrong. Apart from providing us with four murders near the start of the film, things take a turn for the surreal when the alien is dressed in drag and forced to take part in a game of hide and seek while aggresso-lesb is waiting to kill him with a switchblade. Madness.Although just a three character play, this film keeps you interested by having at least two of those characters to be totally mental. The alien doesn't do a great job of being human (his chosen name is Anders Andersson!) and it's a good laugh to see him trying to fit in, badly. On the other hand the more aggressive of the lesbian lovers is almost Dennis Hopper/David Lynch film crazy, and may be the most interesting character here.Well worth a watch, and as an added bonus, there's a ten minute lesbian love in and sporadic nudity after that. Good stuff.

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.

An strange man named Anders (an effectively awkward and freaky performance by Barry Stokes) seeks refuge at the remote rural country cottage of bitter, man-hating, domineering lesbian Josephine (a deliciously spiky and venomous portrayal by the lovely Sally Faulkner) and her sweet, timid lover Jessica (an appealing turn by the cute Glory Annen). Unbeknownst to the ladies, Anders is really a lethal and predatory cannibalistic alien who's on a surveillance mission to find a food source for his race. Director Norman J. Warren, working from a compact and compelling script by Max Cuff, relates the arrestingly peculiar story at a slow, yet steady pace and does an expert job of creating and maintaining a tense, edgy and uncomfortable atmosphere that ultimately culminates in a grisly and terrifying conclusion with an extremely chilling last line. Moreover, Warren delivers a pleasingly abundant amount of in-your-face hideous graphic gore, tasty female nudity, and sizzling soft-core sex to further spice things up. The central narrative offers a weird and pointed critique on prim'n'proper English manners that reaches its gloriously off-center apex with a supremely uneasy and unnerving costume party sequence. The three leads all do strong work with their sharply drawn characters, with Faulkner a stand-out as the spiteful and possessive Josephine. Better still, there's no obtrusive silly humor to detract from the stark severity of the refreshingly grim and brutal horror. Derek V. Browne's fairly slick cinematography astutely nails the pervasive isolation and vulnerability of the sylvan setting while Ivor Slaney's shivery score does the spine-tingling trick. Well worth a look.