Back in September 2012 when we first started Bad Movie Night, we were doing something that was by all accounts, not particularly innovative. Ignoring the popularity of "Mystery Science Theater 3000" which had started long before, the late 2000s and early 2010s were a special time for bad movies because they were starting to become popular among the masses and not just those nerds who knew about MST3K. With this new popularity, a lot of movies were being brought out into the open and suddenly everyone had heard of "The Room," "Birdemic," and "Troll 2." This popularity reached its peak with the movie "Sharknado," a movie deliberately made to be a bad movie. However, like all movies made with the intention of becoming bad movies, "Sharknado" is really not much compared to the bad movie classics because they were trying to be funny. This is something a lot of people seemed to miss, including directors of bad movie classics who saw the opportunity to make a buck by creating sequels to their famous bad movies. And we are going to torture ourselves by watching some of them to see if they are actually worth the time. They probably won't be.
"The Deadliest Prey" is obviously a sequel to "Deadly Prey," a well loved movie by our crew. "Deadly Prey" was an early watch in our history from the post-Facebook group, pre-blog days and as such I managed to actually bother to write two separate reviews on it (one of the short Facebook ones and one longer one). "The Deadliest Prey" is . . . the exact same movie. Well, almost. Colonel Hogan has been in an insane asylum for the last 25 or 27 years (the characters keep changing the amount) and has just been released to capture Jack Hanton and make him go through the hunting game all over again in the same location but with new Soldier A hunters for him to kill. Hogan even kidnaps Hanton's wife again, although obviously it is a new wife since he killed the last one, the brother of a guy Jack killed last time comes back for revenge and dies in what I am pretty sure was the same way, and at some point Jack manages to leave the park fairly easily, thus proving there isn't really anything keeping him there. They also use the same memorable synth score.
So what did they bother to change? The game is now broadcast online and found by a trio of bored gamers who explain about Jack Hanton's legendary status and decide to help him out by giving him a ride from the game to his house. One of them is named Candy Girl and is the best part of the movie, always ending conversations with hip phrases like, "True that," "True business," and "I heard that!" Hanton's wife doesn't die, Hogan does die, and the day is kind of saved by Hanton's nine-year-old son with a pistol. Over the final shot of father and son hoisting guns in the air, the words "The Beginning" appeared in the bottom half of the screen. It seems possible that in ten years we might get an "Even More Deadly Prey" with the son as the main but I really hope not.
This movie is really not worth the watch. Just watch "Deadly Prey" again and imagine them all 25 or 27 years older.
Quote:
"I've killed more people than cancer."
Spoon Rating: tentative 4
Grandma's Review: "It was a 5."
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