9/18/2023 0 Comments Deadly prey 1986![]() He likes his knife, so there are multiple stabbings, but he also uses it for whittling spears (rather than picking up one of the dozens of assault rifles dropped by his victims). When he’s not killing someone, he’s preparing to kill someone, and the movie excels in coming up with new ways for Danton to kill people. The theme: Ted Prior is awesome.Ī musclebound slab with a voice akin to a low frequency seismic vibration, Ted Prior’s Danton is a man of action. What it lacks in, well, everything resembling quality, it makes up for in pure enthusiasm and dedication to its theme. ![]() Ostensibly, it has a The Most Dangerous Game premise (see also: Turkey Shoot, Surviving the Game), but the plot is really only an excuse to kill as many nameless bad guys as possible. Take the most mindless action flick you can imagine, remove all the nuance and plausibility, and you have Deadly Prey. Soon they find that the hunters have become…well, you know where this is going.įull disclosure: Deadly Prey is a rock stupid movie. However, they make a serious (and wildly coincidental) error when Thornton snatches Mike Danton (Ted Prior), the deadliest Special Forces operative Hogan ever trained. Thornton (Fritz Matthews), pick up random saps off the street and set them loose in the woods for his men to hunt down. His favorite war game is having his right- hand thug, Lt. Hogan (David Campbell) is training an army of mercenaries for vague and undefined reasons. The movie’s plot goes like this: the Nefarious Col. The 1987, low-budget action extravaganza Deadly Prey is one such movie. I’m always looking for an undiscovered, lunkheaded gem, and every once in a while I find a movie that exceeds my expectations, a movie that is so loaded with absurdity it is like an embarrassment of riches, or, more accurately, an embarrassment of embarrassments. Where some laugh at the stupidity, I also laugh at the stupidity, but in a more endearing way. Where some see incompetence, I see quirk. “Just remarkable,” Chankin says.As you know (or will understand after reading this sentence), I love a ridiculous movie. The poster is emblazoned with a neon-orange, heavily muscled mercenary decked out with daggers and bullet belts. “The holy grail of the collection, and one of my favorite movies,” he says. His favorite is for 1986’s Deadly Prey, the movie from which his gallery got its name. “Certain movies gained especially high notoriety for the outlandish nature of the posters, containing scenes and characters that may or may not be in the movie.”Ĭhankin’s been collecting these posters for about five years, and at this point owns more than 700. “Soon the movie posters became just as important as the actual movie being shown,” Chankin says. films, the posters took on a life of their own. ![]() Often absurdly over-the-top and supremely violent interpretations of U.S. One way to get villagers lining up at your truck was to advertise with outrageous, colorful, hand-painted posters. This form of entertainment-typically a truck equipped with power generators, TVs, and a library of movies-was an instant success, spawning competing companies. ![]() In the 80s, Ghanaian mobile cinemas showed movies in villages that didn’t have electricity. ![]() Chicago) in West Town to showcase his massive stockpile of weirdo movie posters from Ghana. Not only was Chankin able to open the out-there video rental store in Bucktown with his own DVD and VHS collection a dozen years ago, but this summer, with help from his sister Heidi Anne Chankin, he started up Deadly Prey Gallery (1433 W. “I’ve always considered myself a movie guy and a collector,” says Brian Chankin, owner and operator of Odd Obsession, in what may be the understatement of the year.
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