Product Details

• Actors: Bridget Moynahan, Peter Weller, Carly Schroeder, Jamie Bartlett, Conner Dowds
• Directors: Darrell Roodt
• Writers: Darrell Roodt, Beau Bauman, Jeff Wadlow
• Producers: Anant Singh, Carine Stander, Helena Spring, Peter Schlessel
• Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, Widescreen, NTSC
• Language: English (Dolby Digital 5.1)
• Subtitles: Spanish
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: R (Restricted)
• Studio: Weinstein Company
• DVD Release Date: January 30, 2007
• Run Time: 92 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 2.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (30 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B000JJRYDS
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #34,671 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "Prey" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

Editorial Reviews

Tom Newman (Peter Weller) can’t join his family on their first African Adventure vacation due to urgent business obligations, but hopes the trip will provide a chance for his son and daughter to bond with his new young wife, Amy (Bridget Moynahan). Their ranger, Brian, decides to add some extra thrills and adventure to their trip and takes them "off roading." All is well until Amy and the 2 kids become lost in a labyrinthine game reserve and begin to be stalked by savage lions who won’t quit until they have dinner. The film is described as "Jaws in the African bush" and will keep you on the edge of your seat until the final seconds.

Customer Reviews

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30 of 36 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Prey Will Having You Praying . . . Riveting Entertainment!, February 5, 2007

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Steven Hedge "Movie Fan" (Somewhere "East of Eden") - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Prey (DVD)

I found this little low-budget film to be very disturbing and intense. Make no mistake that is a survival film and you've seen this kind of thing before; however, that doesn't make this nifty little film any less powerful and at a brisk 90 minutes, you'll feel exhausted when this film ends.

The acting is generally good. Moynaham of I, Robot fame, as the stepmom saddled with 2 bratty kids is very believable and will often remind you in looks and speech of Sandra Bullock. The oldest child is very effective in her role, but her character will, forgive the pun, eat away at your nerves to the point where you want Moynaham to simply kick the broken down jeep's door open and feed her to the damn lions. The youngest child is so awful in his role that you would swear on a stack of Bibles that he's reading his lines off of posterboards. Peter Weller, the Robocop Trilogy and recent villain on TV's 24 - Season Five, as the dad is reliable as always and he's always been a very underrated actor. I enjoy seeing him on the History Channel where he hosts ancient worlds specials (wherein he holds a Master's degree from Syracuse University and, I believe, is an adjunct professor).

The death scenes are absolutely chilling and intense and not unlike the death scenes in Jaws. They are that riveting and horrific. I promise you that you will not forget them. There are enough "rest" scenes in the film between the lion attacks and they are used well. The character interactions between the stepmom and the oldest resentful stepdaughter are believable no matter how ill-timed they are. Imagined being trapped with someone that you hate. It happens and it is played out believably here. The majority of this film takes place in the broken down tourist Jeep the ranger takes off-roading at the family's expense for some extra "fun."

This "trapped in a car" scenario is rather remincent of Stephen King's Cujo, an excellent film, wherein Dee Wallace Stone is trapped in her car with her sick son by their rapid family dog, Cujo, on a blistering hot day. They spend a good 2/3rds of that film trying to get from the car in the driveway to the inside of the house and away from the dog before they die in the car from the heat and lack of water just as they do in the film "Prey." "Prey" focuses on that same claustrophobic panic and we feel it as an audience. It is very effectively communicated thanks to good direction and acting.

The plot of "Prey" has some significant holes and they can be very annoying, but panic and stupidity drives most of these people to do what they do. It is, however, VERY hard to believe that an experienced ranger would take a family off-roading in a very dangerous area to stop and have a kid do #2 in a lion-infested area. If you are willing to suspend your disbelief for that scene which sets up the story, then the rest is going to go down fairly easily.

I highly recommend this film, flaws and all, for the intense action sequences, skilled direction, and the overall good acting by the major players. This film rarely lets up on the suspense and you will remember it long after seeing it.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Prey, March 29, 2010

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TREND700 "TREND700" (USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Prey (DVD)

While working in a dam in Africa, the American hydraulic engineer Tom Newman brings his family to spend a couple of days in the Leopard's Rest Lodge. His fourteen year-old daughter Jessica is having friction with her stepmother Amy since she does not accept the divorce of her parents. On the next morning, Amy, Jessica and her brother David go in a game drive with a ranger while Tom goes to the dam. While driving off-road, they stop for a minute for David, and unexpectedly they are attacked by a group of starving lions that kill and eat the ranger. Amy, Jessica and David are trapped in the jeep and stalked by the wild lions. When Tom returns to the hotel and finds that his family has not returned from the game, he asks for help to the experienced hunter and guide Crawford and together they seek Tom's family. For a low budget movie, I found this movie quite entertaining. This movie doesn't take long to pick up, within 15 minutes of the movie, you will be curious to watch the survival plot of humans against beast. It's quick, fun and interesting. It's worth a rental.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars mindless fun, March 5, 2010

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B. E Jackson (Pennsylvania) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Prey (DVD)

Don't expect a quality suspense with this one. Just... don't, haha.

Expect one of the most predictable storylines you can imagine. Two kids and their stepmom are trapped inside a car somewhere in Africa because three lions just will NOT leave them alone.

Every time they try to leave the car the lions are waiting in the weeds for them. Do lions *really* treat people this way? I don't think so. I think in real life they don't even care about humans unless they feel like they're being threatened.

The poor little boy had to spend two whole nights without getting the chance to use the bathroom! Feel for him.

In one spot, the driver of the car actually took his keys with him while taking the little boy to the bathroom, so an unnecessary search for the keys had to take place after the driver was killed graphically. D'oh!

I can't remember why the father didn't tag along for the ride, but it doesn't matter.

The three people trapped in the car try the most predictable means of chasing away the lions, but none of them work. What a clumsy driver the stepmom is too. VERY clumsy. Silly girl. You're not supposed to drive between trees and over cliffs- you're supposed to stay on the dirt road. We even have dirt roads in America! She should have known what dirt roads look like.

Anyway, the stepmom and the daughter HATE each other. The daughter constantly finds ways to criticize anything she doesn't like about the woman. She really needed to grow up though. Seriously, we all act that way towards our step parents (even *I* do it sometimes -as an adult- and feel embarrassed about it later) but this girl was *really* hard on her stepmom. She was just trying her best to please and protect the kids. Completely unfair.

I don't think she was technically a stepmom- more like the girls father's girlfriend by that point.

Anyway, the father eventually finds an Australian man who doesn't even WANT to help the poor guy find his family. He changes his mind when there's talk of giving him anything he wants though. That always helps.

Predictable storyline, and a surprising amount of blood. That's what this film is all about. A good rental.