2007
Rated: Unrated
Genre: Horror Online Short Thriller
Directed By: Adam Mason
Running Time: 6 Minutes
Review by: Felix Vasquez Jr.
Review Date: 9/11/08

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Adam Mason’s short horror thriller can very well be seen as a feature length film if the director decides it one day. While he faults the low budget for providing a stripped down atmosphere to the film, I find it only helps to induce the sheer terror abundant in this short first person perspective horror flick that spotlights Alaskan serial killer Robert Hensen, a man who enjoys hunting and happens to be hunting his favorite prey.

It’s really hard to discuss “Prey” without giving away the major twist in the climax, but suffice it to say that Mason’s short is utterly disturbing and yet fantastic at the same time. The predecessor to Broken, “Prey” stars an actor who gives us fantastic insight in to the mind of Hensen who begins musing on his travels as a hunter and then breaks in to a sudden rant about his hatred for humanity, the inevitable war that may cause man to seek survival, and how much he despises women.  

The rant and his stomping to the snowy terrain of the Alaskan wilderness set the stage for a truly shocking and disturbing series of events that really will press on viewer’s minds that aren’t prepared. Simply, there’s nothing to prepare you. Hensen is a brutal and merciless maniac with a justification of his acts in his own mind, and his half smirk while hunting the whole time is haunting. I’d definitely see a feature length version if Mason (which he describes as "Fargo" meets "Silence of the Lambs") decides to bring us one, one of these days.

It's misogynist, it's brutal, it's demented and it is a movie I'd definitely watch in feature length format if director Adam Mason ever decides to give it to us one of these days. Great performances and disturbing special effects makes "Prey" a memorable little short.

 

 

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