Prey

cannibal alien from outer space
Prey

With a title like "Prey" one would expect this British sci-fi horror film to either be very bloody or very lurid. In this case, it's both. A cannibal alien from outer space on a reconnaissance mission to Earth drops in on the estate of a wealthy, eccentric British lesbian and her neurotic woman-child live-in girlfriend. Now how can anyone possibly go wrong starting with a premise like that? It has the feel of a Merchant-Ivory film adapted by Roger Corman (or maybe a Roger Corman film adapted by Merchant-Ivory?) As added attractions, the women are erotic and beautiful and the music, for some reason, is awfully nice in parts. A great B-movie.

Prey isn't for all tastes, but for the game British sci-fi or horror fan it's a great treat.

YOU HAVE MANY WALLY'S?
An alien (Barry Stokes) meat eater lands on earth and takes human form as one of his victims. He is taken in as a house guest in an English country manor by a pair of lesbians. The two women are a bit odd. Jessica (Glory Annen) the not too shy owner of the estate inherited it from her parents. Jo (Sally Faulkner) worked there and stayed on as the alpha female in the relationship.

The alien is socially inept. Jessica is fond of him, "He's very attractive...for a man" to the dismay of Jo who suspects something is up. The film has slow scenes and takes time to build up to a climax that wasn't worth the wait. Low budget soft core sci-fi from the 70's. A drive-in movie flick.

Parental Guide: F-bomb, sex, nudity (Glory Annen, Sally Faulkner, Barry Stokes) girl/girl sex, cat fight.

I actually enjoyed this movie.
This story revolves around three figures. There are two women who are in a lesbian relationship. The younger girl owns the house that is outside of England. Her crazy lover is just that, crazy. She is crazy and very paranoid that her lover will move on to England to meet other women, men, whoever. The older crazy female even kills a neighborhood man who had come to visit the two women. Later the younger female finds a huge knife and some bloody clothing that had belonged to the victim in the other girls belongings. So by that point she knows she has to carefully get out of the lesbian relationship.

Enter the ALIEN. The ALIEN can physically assume the form and identity of another person or being. As soon as the alien enters the human environment he kills a guy who is making out with a girl in a car near the lesbian's house. The ALIEN then assumes the male identity. Later two policemen are dispatched to look for the missing man and find the car. The ALIEN unknowingly walks up...

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