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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.
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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
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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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