THE PREY
Dir. Edwin Brown. 1983.
USA. 80 mins.
In English.

SATURDAY, JULY 8 – MIDNIGHT
MONDAY JULY 10 – 10:00PM
FRIDAY JULY 28 - MIDNIGHT
SATURDAY JULY 29 – MIDNIGHT

Summer, 1979. Three couples go on an idyllic camping trip to the Rocky Mountains. However, they soon realise someone else is in the woods watching them, stalking them, trying to make them the prey…

THE PREY was shot in the beautiful Idyllwild–Pine Cove over a ten-day period. Unfortunately, due to budgetary restrictions, some scenes were left unfinished. To compensate for the running time, director Edwin Brown decide to intercut wildlife stock footage with his movie. The resulting film feels like a cross between a National Geographic documentary and THE HILLS HAVE EYES (1977).

There are three versions of THE PREY in circulation. The original US theatrical cut, the international cut containing 20 minutes of flashback scenes added by the producers without the director's approval, and a composite cut of both. For this series, Spectacle will be showing Arrow Videos' restored version of the US theatrical cut.