31 DAYS OF HALLOWEEN 1980's edition — (12/31) ↳ The Prey (1983)

I'm just waiting for the Naru/Yautja stories in ao3.

i had to stop the movie i really love it haha

6:26 AM EST January 14, 2024:

Dead Kennedys - "The Prey" From the   Fresh Fruit For Rotting Vegetables Bonus Material (1999)

Last song scrobbled from iTunes at Last.fm

I’ve been the archer 🏹

I’ve been the prey 🐇

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If alien supposed to be ugly,,,,why sexy muscles,,,

The Prey (Edwin Brown, 1983)

A forest slasher with such gratuitous attention paid to nature. Such gratuitous attention paid to everything but the proceedings of the movie, giving this disconnect not only from the marks of quality filmmaking but from all reality. A ghostly world of one shots, reactions, p.o.v., bloody corpses, cutaways and stock footage. Until the end i don't think there was a moment when a character entered a scene and joined another character in the same shot. Everything in its own discrete universe. Axe comes down, head is lopped off - what connects these things? What nightmare are we in? Even the hideously dark ending is implied via a shot of a cave and an audio overlay. The elements are there, they make a whole but it's a fragmentary one. But also a more unnerving and ecstatic one, and the movie's all the better for it.

it’s crazy how much diversity there can be in one species…these are all pictures of the same bird species (red-tailed hawk)

Pigeon attempts to court falcon

currently watching The Prey

6:02 PM EDT May 3, 2024:

Dead Kennedys - "The Prey" From the   Fresh Fruit For Rotting Vegetables Bonus Material (1999)

Last song scrobbled from iTunes at Last.fm

File under: First Wave West Coast Hardcore

So I'm leaving work and something darts in front of me, maybe 10ft away, too fast for me to see what it is. Peek around the tree blocking my path and I see this

Just like... a whole ass hawk. Dude's gotta be about 1.5ft tall. Massive fucking bird. And it's just staring me straight in my soul like this, even as I try to move ahead. It didn't budge. And there's only this path back to my car unless I want to walk on a busy highway. So I have the option of Death By Raptor or Death By Truck.

So I walk in the poison ivy filled patch off the sidewalk. Guy still isn't moving. Still staring me directly in the eyes. And I do this thing when animals are behaving strangely where I'll talk to them, so I'm just like, "Hey, man. I don't know you. You don't know me. This feels really threatening. I'm just trying to get to my car, dude. Can I get some space please? You're a big fucking bird. I see those claws. You could kill me right now, but I'd appreciate if you didn't, ok?"

It didn't move until I was about 2ft away. Again: I'm as far from it as I can be without walking into the street. It clearly wasn't going to budge. I walk past, thing flies up (silent, btw. Scary) and lands on a brick wall a little further ahead

Anyway. Weird guy. Nearly shit my pants when I noticed a bird big enough to carry off a fully grown cat was just... there, staring me in the face, unwilling to move away from me, a human, something it should see as a threat. I watched behind me the whole rest of the way to my car, just in case this bird decided to help me shed this mortal coil. 10/10 experience. Super cool guy.

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