Category: Commentary, Critique, and Response

REVIEW OF ‘LET US PREY’.

(Note: I only post this here because of the bit about the culture of hollywood. I think Roman and I are both very conscious of the intentional immorality and vapid leftism of the american entertainment system – and why it is immoral and vapid. So when I find pieces of work that advocate produce our traditional moral code, I like to call them out. And yes, just like science fiction is necessary for the persistence of libertarianism, horror is necessary for the persistence of the western mythos that truth will be eventually known by someone. And therefore we can never escape our sins.)

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Well developed characters, good casting, articulate script, well acted,

well directed – particularly the flashbacks which are too often a weak

point, and produced adequately if cost effectively, provide us with an

unexpected gem, and one of the best in the genre in the past five

years.

Little things matter. Loved the barbed wire work throughout. The

director does not overindulge the characters or the actors. And

conversely, he still retains sufficient bloodiness to invoke our

primitive emotions and symbolism without trying to shock us with

something new – the story is the story after all, and it’s a

character’s journey. And he respects us along the way.

One of the things that struck me repeatedly, was the difference between

the British and American acting schools, and just how much better

suited the British technique is for presenting the internal moral

conflict necessary for good horror. Thought still exists in such

characters, where Americans favor the senselessness of the raw nerve.

As if honest acting somehow prohibits rational moral conflict, and self

reflection.

The director proves it’s still possible to still produce a moral movie,

a moral horror movie, in the western tradition of our pagan fairy tales

and Christian horror tales. It’s just not in possible to do in

Hollywood, where our pagan and Christian morality is actively

suppressed both by intent, and non-verbal consensus in the culture of

the place.

Prey is how it is done. Without novelty of effects and gimmicks that can be put into trailers, it may be harder to sell to distributors and studios. But it’s a nearly flawless addition to our visual libraries.

I hope we see a series of movies with the same character development,

with the same basic effects, under the same narrative, hopefully by the

same producers. They’re profitable. We want them. We can’t get enough

of them.

So yes. More please.

And thank you.