Devil's Prey

Plot synopsis:
The movie opens with a young woman being sacrificed by members of a Satanic cult. The focus then switches to five college kids: Eric, David, Samantha, Joe and Susan. Sam gets given a flyer for a rave and the gang decide to go. The rave is held in a barn and Eric starts selling drugs to people there despite being on parole. David gets into a fight with one of the other guys there and the gang are thrown out. As they leave, the man throwing the rave remarks that they may have found some candidates. While driving home, David nearly runs over a woman called Fawn who is covered in blood and has been running from a group of Satan worshippers called the Shadows. The gang are soon ambushed by the Shadows who run their car off the road. While trying to escape, Joe is caught by the Shadows and taken away. The others hide out in a cabin and Fawn tells them they have been trying to sacrifice her to Satan. The gang are divided on what to do next as Sam and Eric think they should leave Fawn since it's her the Shadows want while Susan and Eric think they should help her because they nearly killed her. They are soon attacked by members of the Shadows while Joe is being sacrificed elsewhere. They manage to fight them off and escape from the cabin. While out walking they are attacked by a girl that Eric recognises from the rave. The five of them follow the river and eventually come to a small town. They find Seth, the minister who knows about the Shadows and he takes them to the local sheriff. Sam and Eric stay behind at the diner while David, Susan and Fawn go with the sheriff. They go to the crash site and find that their car has been taken away but they find Joe's glasses to prove their story. Back in the diner, Eric goes outside to make a phone call but the pay phone is broken. The people in the diner knock Sam out and kidnap her. Meanwhile the others run into Seth on the road and he shoots the sheriff and Fawn reveals that she is in league with him and the Shadows. She knocks David out but Susan gets away. David and Sam are taken to the barn where the rave was held and Sam is tortured and eventually killed by Fawn. Back in the town Eric and Susan sneak in the back of a pick-up truck to get to the barn. When they get there Eric is hit in the back with an axe and Susan is drugged. When she comes around she has been chained up, ready to be sacrificed in the hopes that the Shadows will get immortality. Seth prepares the ritual to sacrifice Susan but Eric drives the car into the barn. Susan kills Fawn and her and David escape while Eric blows up the truck, killing everyone else. Seth gets out and goes after Susan and David but they crash the truck into him and he is impaled on a stake. The ending flashes forward six months later to David and Susan living in an apartment of their own. David leaves for class and Susan has a nightmare of Fawn in the apartment. As she closes the door we see Seth standing inside and he says "hello, Susan" as the movie ends.

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Review:
Five L.A. teens make the mistake of accepting an anonymous invitation to attend a backwoods rave called 'Straight to Hell' and, wouldn't you know it, that's just what the local sect of Satanists had in mind when they lured them there!
Before you can say trite morality lesson, the kids (who've apparently burned too many brain cells as is) are run off the road by a van and chased around in the woods by hooded, masked cult members who want to sacrifice them to gain immortality.
After the token black fifth wheel is snuffed out, the survivors (plus a young woman who escaped an earlier sacrifice attempt) stumble onto a very small town inhabited by (surprise!) more Satanists and it's time for round two.Don't waste your time with this irritating semi-throwback to 1970s drive-in horror films.
The movie doesn't look bad, a few of the actresses are pretty hot and it has one effective plot shift near the middle, but those things are a dime a dozen in horror films and not nearly enough to sustain interest during the entire length of this stupid, boring movie..
A Dreadful Teen Movie, With a Screenplay Full of Flaws and Ridiculous Dialogs.
Five friends (Susan (Ashley Jones), David (Charlie O'Connel), Samantha (the horrible Jennifer Lyons), Erik (Brian Kirkwood) and Joe (Rashaan Nall)) are invited to go to a rave party in a distant location.
In the party, Erik starts dealing drugs and David fights with a local, and the group is invited to leave immediately the place.
In the way back home, in a lack of attention of David while driving, he hits Fawn (Elena Lyons) on the road.
Fawn is hurt and tells them that she was escaping from some fanatics for Satan, who wanted to sacrifice her.
In the morning, they successfully reach a small town, meet the local minister Seth (Patrick Bergin) and the sheriff (Tim Thomerson) and report what happened along the night.
This film is a dreadful teen movie, having a screenplay full of flaws and ridiculous dialogs.
The ham `actress' Jennifer Lyons has a terrible tone of voice, her character is ridiculous and her lines are unbelievable.
Some parts of the story are reasonable, but in a certain point of the plot, it becomes so unreasonable that even a fan like me of horror movie gets completely disappointed.
I don't know why people actually liked this movie just for a bit?
I'm a big B-movie fan and I don't care if the acting or the fx are bad (sometimes it makes movies even more fun!) but nothing is happening in this movie.
The script and story line are so transparent and obvious that after a five minute introduction, set your dvd to 16x and you'll get the rest of the movie in a further five minutes, and miss nothing.
You know you're in trouble when you can spot continuity errors in the opening sequence of a film (check out the disappearing bra) without even looking for them.
"Devil's Prey" is otherwise a well-shot movie, but it's just hokum of the ninth degree.
The devil worshippers are a joke compared to the satanic cults in other horror films (and, although they clearly outnumber the heroes, they persist in attacking them one by one), and I hope Patrick Bergin knows that, after a role like this, his career has little hope of reviving.
In Satan's Cheerleaders a bunch of kids get stuck in a town full of Satan worshippers.
In Devil's Prey, a bunch of kids get stuck in a town full of devil worshippers.
Without the campy approach and the B list actors that made Satan's Cheerleaders entertaining, this film doesn't really have anything to offer.
Just one long boring and derrative flick where everybody and everyone seems to be going through the motions.Rated R; Sexual Situations, Nudity, Violence and Profanity..
Standard for the teen horror genre.
While driving away, they accidentally hit a young woman (Elena Lyons) with their car.
Pretty soon, they are all being pursued by devil worshippers.
This teen horror flick looks good and moves quickly, but it has too many tiresome cliches that killed the genre in the first place (the ethnic minorities don't last long, promiscuous girls must be punished, etc.) and it is gratuitously unpleasant.
For example, there is a sex scene that doesn't show anything - the nudity is provided by intercut scenes of a topless girl being stabbed repeatedly, and which has nothing much to do with the rest of the film.
Besides such pointless moments as these, there are a few thrills to be found and, like many teen horror movies these days, the cast is made up of TV stars, and they do a capable job..
Over-exposure of breasts, depicting drug use in a way that is far from reality and poor acting - none of those mentioned appeals to me, sorry.
I consider this one to be a complete failure as regards making a college flick with goals set on appealing to young people.2/10 - my advice is stay away from this one!.
I love horror films and blonde hotties.
I got this to see Jennifer Lyons but was disappointed to see no breasts and she was not too sexy nor could she act!
This movie was ridiculous after the rave party It went on and ON CHEAP and predictable Didn't look to bad but the rest of the movie and the killers were played out fast.
The ending was pretty good but this movie took too long to get to the end..
What I got was a story that went in the wrong direction.Devil's Prey (hereon "DP") started off almost brilliantly.
A group of twenty-somethings running from a cult of Satan worshippers intent on making these innocents part of their ritual slaughter.
Unfortunately the plot soon goes off-track.The Satanic cult, known as "The Shadows", take off their masks and cloaks way too early, revealing not a bunch of evil dark-side doers, but instead a handful of stupid psychos who make up as they go along what the devil "wants of them".Besides the cameraman seemingly being obsessed with naked dancing women's breasts at a rave party, the overall general camera work is almost as jumpy as "The Blair Witch Project", especially in the action scenes.
As a result of this, a couple of times I was unable to pick up at first who stabbed who, and was often left wondering how a member of the group received their injury.Plot holes also majorly scarred DP.
By the middle of the movie he has not only turned into a side-kick himself, but is a newbie to the cult.However terribly put together DP was, it is only fair to follow criticism with praise.
What looked at first like a horrible "I know what you did last summer" clichéd sequence actually turned out in a proper logical way.
But that's about it.Devil's Prey is a movie that begins with a lot of potential, but goes in the wrong direction, turning into a messed up dud.
It has a very nice start, flows well (despite the plot holes), but makes you wish it was more.
Ripoff of a dozen or so 70's drive-in flicks about teenagers falling prey to town that seems populated by only devil worshippers.
Decently paced with an appealing enough cast and some thrills and chills, but way too familiar to be effective.
Typical "horror" film with a non-existent plot and awful acting.
And the beginning, although the best part of the film with loads of good looking babes, is exceptionally pointless.
A group of teenagers go to a party outside city and are later on chased by satan worshippers.
I don't even want to tell anything about the rest of the film, because someone might be surprised about the turnaround in the plot.
I personally could not watch the whole movie because I started feeling nausea.
Decent for a Teen Horror movie.
I bought this movie to see Elena Lyons as a star in the film and she did an excellent job, of course.
I'm a fan of horror movies of all type, but this type of film is becoming old, it's no Friday the 13th.
It's the famous teen horror movies where someone is chasing-someone to kill someone-thing.
It was made pretty good, effects and filming of it was quality.
Overall it was decent for this type of film, worth renting if there's nothing on TV..
I gave it a 2 because the actors were OK, the actresses quite pretty and they seemed to make at least a half-hearted effort.The rest of the movie however is awful.
It's also quite perturbing to see Jerry O'Connell's brother in this movie as there are flashes when one thinks it's him, but then the realisation seeps in that it's just someone who looks like him!Avoid.
Horror like in the 80's.
This is one of the greatest horror movies I have seen this year...
It is great to see that it is still possible to make movies this way....
Pretty Cool Little Movie.
I dig this kinda movie way more than the big budget Hollywood horror films, and it's just as spooky.
A bunch of masked devil worshippers chasing people around the woods is about the jist of this flick, but there's more to it, with some cool plot twists that I didn't see coming.
Some great photography sequences at the rave party scene..
Devil's Prey starts late one night as five teenage friends, David (Charlie O'Connell), Susan (Ashley Jones), Eric (Bryan Kirkwood), Samantha (Jennifer Lyons) & Joe (Rashaan Nall) drive along an isolated backwoods road on their way to a rave in a barn.
Eventually they reach their destination & inside the barn everyone seems to be having a good time until David gets involved in a fight over drugs & the five friends are kicked out.
They drive off heading back home but hit a girl named Fawn (Elena Lyons who is a bit of a babe) who stumbles into the middle of the road, after stopping they try to help her & decide to drive her to a hospital.
However they are forced off the road by a van, the friends are now stuck in the middle of nowhere & to add to their problems Fawn informs them that a satanic cult known as 'the shadows' operate nearby & are always in search of fresh, young sacrificial victims for their sinister devil worshipping ceremonies...Directed by Bradford May I thought Devil's Prey was an OK teen horror, I certainly thought it was watchable at the very least.
Courtney Joyner moves along at a fair pace & is never boring, at first it plays pretty much like a standard slasher film with a group of clichéd teens, the obligatory black dude, the 'strong' female, the idiot, the couple etc., being hunted down by people in robes & masks that reminded me of the killer from Scream (1996) but about halfway through they come across the small town of Hallow's Point where the film takes a different direction.
I'm not saying that Devil's Prey suddenly becomes a masterpiece or anything like that, far from it in fact but it was nice to see the film try & break out of the normal horror mould that appears set in stone these days.
The character's are non descript & forgettable although they don't annoy too much, the plot twists are far too easy to figure out & I was one step ahead of Devil's Prey all the way & there is one bit which bugged me & still does even now.
It's the fact that Fawn deliberately walked in front of a moving car as part of an elaborate plan, OK fine but there is no way on Earth that she could be sure that being hit by a speeding car wouldn't kill or seriously injure herself, is there?
That's a massive chance to take for very little benefit, I mean the guys in the van force the car off the road anyway, right?Director May does OK & Devil's Prey looks alright, it doesn't have much style or visual flair but it's good enough.
There isn't much gore, someone gets a bullet through their head, there are a couple of really tame Satan worshipping rituals & the films best sequence in which Patrick Bergin has intimate relations with Elena Lyons all inter-cut with Jennifer Lyons breasts & body being cut with a knife, nice.Technically Devil's Prey is fine, it's well made & competent throughout.
The acting was OK & a couple of the girls here, especially Elena Lyons, are pretty hot.Devil's Prey is a decent attempt at a teen horror, it's not the best but it's far from the worst & I personally think it's worth a watch if your a fan of the genre & aren't too demanding.
Good movie, so why the low rating?
Devil's Prey is not a high budget movie, yet still there are thrills and twists which I enjoyed watching.
In my opinion, the violence and sexual content isn't raw; it's mildly presented and if you're over 18 years of age, it's no big deal.The movie is never boring as we see a group of seven twenty-somethings first at a party who then get drugged and attempted to be captured and murdered by a group of loony satanics; there's a twist in the tail here as two of the young twenty-something "friends" are in fact part of the satanic group drafted in to capture the others.This I didn't get until almost the end, when to my surprise, they were uncovered!
There are other characters in this movie who you sense from the start they're "in with it", and like in "Race With The Devil", the satanic loonies are more part of the town than an isolated group.It's a good film, low budget yes, but well acted and worth renting.
"Devil's Prey" (2001) is the first movie to show the brutal reality of devil worship and virgin sacrifice-dull, boring, and stupid.
A gang of devil worshipers, led by Seth the local minister, doesn't like a gang of ravers, led by David (Charlie O'Connel).
Driving away from the rave, David runs over Seth's girlfriend Fawn (Elena Lyons) who is mysteriously immune from blunt object trauma and who just gets into David's car.
In retaliation David's gang begins killing a bunch of girls because they are dressed in long black robes and running around in the woods at night with sharp objects.
In retaliation Seth's gang sacrifices Samantha (Jennifer Lyons) because she speaks with the voice of Rocky the Flying Squirrel and they figure she must be a virgin.
By the end David's gang seems to have pretty much wiped out all the citizens of a small California town along with Seth and Fawn.
The movie nicely balances scenes of Jennifer Lyon's tight abs with charming shots of the little chapel in the dell, so there's something for everybody.
But seriously, "Devil's Prey" may not be the worst ever example in the horror genre but you are unlikely to randomly chance on anything worse than this mess.
You immediately know that the seemingly normal townspeople are in league with the devil worshipers and that Fawn is their high priestess.
Devil's Prey is an illogical story lamely masked by confusing plot elements.
Devils Prey was a movie i picked out for no apparent reason, even the cover looked too "I know what you did last summer", but i still gave it a go....and to my suprise it wasnt too bad.
The story isnt too complicated, A bunch of teens, after having a party in a country town, drive back home, but on their way there they run over a girl, her injuries arent severe, then they are followed around by some devil worshipers wearing scary masks,**SPOILER**one of them gets caught, and theres no sign of him through-out the movie, so that was a big no-no...What happened to him?
**END SPOILER**The acting was acceptable, except that of the Blonde girl, though she shows her fears well, the movie wasnt written to well, it had its good points (Barn scene) but others, were just copy-cats of other movies like (I Know What You Did Last Summer) just check the ending out, absolutely un-neccesary.The film also had familiar scenes to the likings of Texas Chainsaw Massacre, I Know What You Did....
Im sure it could have been done better, but it was still an acceptable movie, not very scary, but some of the scenes were appealing, especially for its type of Genre.ACTING: The acting was acceptable, there was alot in the cast, and they all did OK, nothing overwhelming at all, but they did their jobs satisfactorally.ACTORS: Not really a familiar cast, no-one really all that famous, and if you recognise them, they are from TV Shows, not the best chosen cast, but i guess they suited their roles ok.SCRIPT: Again it did copy alot of movies, and the ending was quiet dissapointing, there were many potholes in the movie, giving the impression of a bumpy ride, and well..A Bumpy script, not too good.CINEMA: Fair enough, i didnt find any exceptional cinematography, a few nice country settings, the town looked ok, though you wouldnt brag on about any of it.THRILLS: Quiet a few, it almost starts out as a good thriller/horror film, you might get a few trembles, because the movie deals with Devil Worshipers and Evil, not many films go that far, especially of its Genre.MUSIC: The music was good, not sound-track worthy, but whenever music was played, it was played appropriately with the scene it goes with, so the music was nice.OVERALL: A Satisfactory horror film, of course it would have been done better as it did have its flaws, but like most of its Genre, their never classics, and Devils Prety definantley wasnt a classic, but it was an OK movie for its genre.*** (3 Stars)