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''Deadly Prey'' is a 1987 action film directed by David A. Prior and starring his brother Ted Prior as the protagonist, Mike Danton. Danton is an ex-Special Forces soldier who is abducted from his home one day by a group of thugs and forced to take part in a lethal training exercise for mercenaries lead by his former mentor, Colonel Tom Hogan. Mike then proceeds to kick tremendous amounts of ass in his quest to stop Hogan and prevent the deaths of any more innocents. Meanwhile, Mike's wife Jaimy enlists the aid of her father, a retired police officer, in order to find him.

Although not very well known, ''Deadly Prey'' has a degree of notoriety in [[Everything Is Terrible|certain circles]] for its less-than-stellar acting and selective applications of reality. Although it has never had an official DVD release, it can still be found online via methods of questionable legality. A version also exists on [[YouTube]] with the entire soundtrack replaced.

 

 

* [[As You Know]]: "I haven't seen you since the time you took a bullet trying to save my life!"

* [[Award Bait Song]]: ''Never Say Die'' by Steve McClintock.

* [[Five-Bad Band]]: [[Big Bad|Hogan]], [[The Dragon|Thorton]], [[Evil Genius|Michaelson]], [[Dark Action Girl|Sybil]] and [[The Brute|whatever random mook happens to have Danton in a chokehold at the time]].

* [[Foe Yay]]: Quite a bit from Hogan. Danton is [[The Stoic|not amused]].

* [[Guns Do Not Work That Way]]: No, having a grenade go off next to your foot does not mean you can still get up and keep running for 3 more minutes.

* [[Heel Face Turn]]: Jack.

* [[Mood Whiplash]]: The film ends with Danton's anguished scream before cutting to a beautiful ballad about [[Determinator|never giving up]].

* [[My Greatest Failure]]: Inverted - Hogan sees Mike as his greatest student and the only person who ever lived up to his standards while participating in non-lethal training exercises.

* [[Private Military Contractors]]

* [[Recurring Riff]]: The same three-note jingle keeps popping up throughout the film, sometimes at inappropriate times.

* [[Say My Name]]: '''DANTOOOOOOOOOOOON!'''

* [[Visible Invisibility]]: After Hogan decides to deal with things personally, he moves into the woods. Little does he know that Mike is watching him...from a tree some two feet off the ground. DUN DUN DUN.

* [[We Can Rule Together]]

 

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[[Category:Films of the 1980s]]