Prey For the Beast

Now days, you don’t see many horror flicks with monsters parading around in rubber suits in attempt to scare you. It just doesn’t stand to reason to use this method, with all the CGI and special effects available which, when combined, can give a person more of a cheap scare than rubber and latex ever thought about doing. This micro budget monster movie revolves around a rubber suited monster which massacres unsuspecting people who’ve dared to venture into its domain. The movie seeks to trek backwards in time in the 50s and 60s era of movies in which rubber suited monsters were believable. It does pulls the whole thing off.. with mediocre flair.

As it stands, a not so believable rubber suit will always trump a poorly choreographed CGI creature or scene, because the suit is real. Even though it’s not 100% realistic, it’s okay, because we’re speaking about a B-monster movie. Of course, you’re more than likely to chuckle at the sight of the rubber monster, rather than be afraid of it.

The beast begins stalking woods in search of prey and looks somewhat similar to a two legged mutant mixed with a were-warthog. That’s right, you read that right. Through it a few steroids and serious case of the mange, and we’re in business. As one local fellow in the movie puts, it, “We stay out if its way and it stays out of ours.” The beast goes on to kill the person quoted. Curious why? Because the idiot ventured into the monster’s woods.

The plot is pretty basic, since the movie is trying to copy 40 year old techniques. A group of people venture into the woods, which is like playing a game of Russian roulette in any horror movie. Once in the woods, the beast finds them and begins killing an eating them. That’s it. Nothing more, nothing less. There was a great scene when the monster shred a man and began sucking on his intestines, but as for the plot, I just revealed the whole thing to you.

As for the acting in the movie, it’s about what you could expect for a movie of this caliber. The actors neither stand out nor are they overly boring, they simply take you along for the ride which ends in massive massacre. The movie is only 75 minutes long and could probably be chopped down by another ten or so minutes. The characters are thin, as is the plot, so if you’re in the mood to laugh at an attempt on horror, this might be the movie for you. Otherwise, you can skip the whole thing entirely.