

The Prey
It's not human, and it's got an axe!
Three young couples set off into the mountains for a weekend of climbing, drinking and lovemaking; little do they know that they are stumbling into the terrain of a fearsome predator – a wild man, horrifically burned as a child many years ago in a fire which engulfed his gypsy camp and left only him alive, roaming the woods in search of his next human prey.
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4.2/10
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- Status
- Released
- Budget
- $150K
- Box office
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- Language
- English
- camping
- woods
- slasher
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Release dates
United StatesUS
- TheatricalR4 Nov 1983
CanadaCA
- PhysicalR4 Nov 1983
BrazilBR
- Theatrical5 Mar 1984
GermanyDE
- Digital / OTT184 Nov 1983
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The Prey was released on 4 November 1983.
Audience reviews
2- T2/10
tmdb76622195
7/15/2023
Sure, most of the slasher films of the 1980's were not worth the celluloid they were filmed on, but this video nightmare may well be one of the dullest produced. Six horny, pot-smoking students decide to go camping. Of course, and you know this already, they begin getting killed one by one by a mysterious stranger. The climax has a hunky forest ranger trying to get to the teens in time before the last cute girl beco…
- W5/10
Wuchak
8/14/2023
**_Meh slasher in the woods of SoCal_** Three couples intend to enjoy a weekend in the wilds of California, but become prey to someone, or something, that doesn’t want them there. Shot around 1980 but not released until 1983, “The Prey” is a backwoods slasher inspired by “Friday the 13th” and similar to the contemporaneous "The Final Terror” in that it was also filmed in the sticks of California and delivers a…
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