![]() ![]() ![]() When he’s not killing someone, he’s preparing to kill someone, and the movie excels in coming up with new ways for Danton to kill people. The theme: Ted Prior is awesome.Ī musclebound slab with a voice akin to a low frequency seismic vibration, Ted Prior’s Danton is a man of action. What it lacks in, well, everything resembling quality, it makes up for in pure enthusiasm and dedication to its theme. Ostensibly, it has a The Most Dangerous Game premise (see also: Turkey Shoot, Surviving the Game), but the plot is really only an excuse to kill as many nameless bad guys as possible. ![]() Take the most mindless action flick you can imagine, remove all the nuance and plausibility, and you have Deadly Prey. Soon they find that the hunters have become…well, you know where this is going.įull disclosure: Deadly Prey is a rock stupid movie. However, they make a serious (and wildly coincidental) error when Thornton snatches Mike Danton (Ted Prior), the deadliest Special Forces operative Hogan ever trained. Thornton (Fritz Matthews), pick up random saps off the street and set them loose in the woods for his men to hunt down. His favorite war game is having his right- hand thug, Lt. Hogan (David Campbell) is training an army of mercenaries for vague and undefined reasons. The movie’s plot goes like this: the Nefarious Col. The 1987, low-budget action extravaganza Deadly Prey is one such movie. I’m always looking for an undiscovered, lunkheaded gem, and every once in a while I find a movie that exceeds my expectations, a movie that is so loaded with absurdity it is like an embarrassment of riches, or, more accurately, an embarrassment of embarrassments. Where some laugh at the stupidity, I also laugh at the stupidity, but in a more endearing way. Where some see incompetence, I see quirk. Frustrated Hogan, his tough right-hand man Thornton and personal assistant Sybil kidnap Danton's wife Jaimy to force him in the open, while Jaimy's retired police detective father tries to track down her and Danton who finds an unlikely ally in the form of a former marine buddy named Cooper who wants to help him take on all of Hogan's men.As you know (or will understand after reading this sentence), I love a ridiculous movie. However, Hogan and his men meet their match when their latest kidnap victim turns out to be a tough gung-ho marine named Mike Danton who despite being unarmed and hunted, he manages to decimate Hogan's men in detail. Hogan's greedy financier Michaelson threatens Hogan to speed up the mens training or he will pull the plug on Hogan's training camp. Servicement as mercenaries by having them hunt down and kill people they abduct off the streets of Los Angeles. matt-282Ĭolonel Hogan is a ruthless former military officer who trains a large group of former U.S. Frustrated Hogan, his tough right-hand man Thornton and personal assistant Sybil kidnap Danton's wife Jaimy to force him in the open, while Jaimy's retired police detective father tries to track down her and Danton who finds an unlikely ally in the form of a former marine buddy named Cooper who wants to help him take on all of Hogan's men. Colonel Hogan is a ruthless former military officer who trains a large group of former U.S. ![]()
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