In his stepfamily’s countryside retreat, Nathan knew that the traditional autumn family reunion was going to be particularly stormy. Claire, his wife, had to announce her recent pregnancy and tough decisions would need to be made to prevent the family’s pesticides business from closing down. But on the first night, a terrorized deer mysteriously attacks Claire’s father. The men decide to venture into the surrounding forest to find the reasons of the animal’s odd behaviour. Carrying a shotgun for the first time in his life and witnessing the growing tensions between the father and his sons, Nathan soon discovers that the hunting season is not over yet. Now they’ve become the prey.
This is a clear case of a filmmaker not having the means to execute their vision. A story about a group of high-strung Frenchmen hunting a mutated pack of boar could have been interesting, I suppose, but "Prey" is completely undone by laughably bad special effects that never once convinced me that the movie's monsters were more alive or threatening than a stuffed boar's head above your mantle.
