augustian This is one of Norman J. Warren's better films, although having seen the Norman J. Warren Coffin Box DVD Collection, that is not much of a recommendation. This film is a strange concoction of sci-fi, horror, zombie, lesbianism and probably a few other genres. The film was shot in a matter of days on a low budget, very much on the hoof: the film was shot as it was being written. It had to be finished quickly because the mansion was due for demolition. Anders' alien face was laughable, looking like something that you get from a joke shop at Halloween.The main cast is only three characters: Anders the alien (Barry Stokes), and the lesbian couple, Jo (Sally Faulkner) and Jessica (Glory Annen). The interaction between the three characters is handled quite deftly, with Anders getting close to Jo to the annoyance of Jessica, but then during the film it all changes with Jo becoming suspicious of Anders while Jessica suspects Jo of foul play and then falling for Anders. The growing antagonism between Jo and Jessica plays right into Anders' hands.This film originally ran for about 85 minutes but it was cut by the BBFC and then further cuts were made possibly to get more showings during cinema show times. The only full version seems to be the North American VHS. I have seen several DVD editions and they are all missing several minutes of footage. The main omission is at 28 minutes when Jessica and Anders are talking about being scared and then Jo joins them to talk about music. Jessica goes to her bedroom to fetch something and Jo goes to talk to her and they argue. Jessica makes some cocoa in the kitchen then she shows Anders to his room. This sequence is about three and a half minutes. There are two smaller omissions: at 37 minutes, a 10 second clip of Anders sitting in a chair is cut and at 72 minutes a further 8 seconds are cut in which the alien is eating flesh and Jo is running down a corridor. The omissions actually give the film a bit more urgency. The French DVD is also the short version despite the cover saying 85 minutes.Overall then, a quirky film for fans of quirky films. It really is a pity that as far as I am aware, no DVD edition has the missing footage as an extra.

Aaron1375 This film is certainly different. I have never really seen to many films like it. It does have areas that play out like the film Xtro, but for the most part there are very few films I have seen that remind me of this. You have an alien with vague motives, you have two lesbian lovers...one a cute and naive number, and the other a bit of a jealous obsessive one with dark secrets of her own. You have nudity, you have some gore and while watching this you are wondering to yourself, "Where the heck is this going?" Granted, I kind of knew, but at times they threw me for a loop.The story has an alien landing and killing a couple. He takes the guise of the male and proceeds to hide out on the property belonging to a girl and her female companion. Turns out they are a couple of strange lovers and you have a very strange film. The alien at times looks so uncomfortable as they keep giving him tea and try to give him vegetables. He is not much of a vegetarian suffice to say. He finally finds something he likes when they give him some booze. For the most part this one just focuses on the three characters and things begin to get really strange.The film is okay, but it could of used more here and there and less too. I mean, there is a scene where the alien is in the water, and he clearly has no water on his planet and you get this prolonged slow motion rescue type scene. The dark secret of the one lesbian in the end proves to be almost pointless.So an okay movie, in that while watching you are wondering how is this going to end. Well it ended about how you would expect it too considering what the alien was doing while alone during most of the film. At one point I was thinking maybe he was just trying to achieve perhaps another goal, but no...he was going after what I thought he was. Still, not many films feature such bizarreness from the other non-aliens to get there.

EyeAskance Instantly watchable and delightfully cheap British sci-fi finds a male alien missionary on Earth being taken in as a house-guest by an unsuspecting separatist lesbian couple. The true fanged creature is concealed beneath a stolen body, but occasionally emerges during conflicts and feeding frenzies(and looks a bit like the titular terrors of THE BAT PEOPLE). The decidedly non-vegetarian visitor becomes caught in the middle of the womyns' peculiar psychodramas and recurring hostilities, and at one point is cross-dressed by them and finds new pleasures in the consumption of champagne....allthewhile drooling over a pet bird they have kept in a hanging cage.This film, for all its misgivings, remains one of the more "out there" entries in the sci-fi/horror genre...a bad film, to be sure, but one recommendable for its sheer uncommonness. At least they were clearly trying for something altogether different...and they sure did succeed in that task.5.5 out of 10 -- for decent performances and overall...erm...queerness.

Libretio PREY Aspect ratio: 1.37:1Sound format: MonoA lesbian couple (Sally Faulkner and Glory Annan) living in a remote country house are driven apart by the arrival of a young man (Barry Stokes) who turns out to be a flesh-eating alien, the vanguard of a massive invasion...Despite its shoestring budget and leaden pacing, Norman J. Warren's follow-up to SATAN'S SLAVE (1976) amounts to a great deal more than the sum of its meager parts, thanks to a surprisingly complex script by Max Cuff (apparently, his only writing credit): Faulkner and Annan indulge an obsessive relationship whilst living in isolated splendor within the English countryside (rendered alternately beautiful and ominous by Derek V. Browne's eye-catching cinematography), though Annan's discovery of bloodstained clothing in an upstairs room marks one (or both) of these doe-eyed lovelies as psychologically disturbed, which may explain the absence of their respective families, some of whom appear to have lived in the house at one time or another and 'left' under mysterious circumstances. Stokes' unexpected arrival throws the relationship into disarray, partly because Faulkner has a pathological hatred of men and partly because Annan is attracted to him, creating tensions which result in a climactic whirlwind of violence. There's an extraordinary, multi-layered sequence in which Faulkner attempts to 'emasculate' their clueless visitor by dressing him in women's clothing, though Stokes' alien mentality allows him to rise above the intended mockery.In the early scenes, at least, the relationship between Faulkner and Annan is depicted with uncommon grace and dignity, but this heartfelt sapphic liaison quickly devolves into crowd-pleasing episodes of sex and pulchritude, culminating in an explosion of horror when Annan allows herself to be ravished by Stokes following a violent argument with Faulkner. The closing sequences are (quite literally) gut-wrenching, especially Annan's final scene, which appears to have been clipped for censorship reasons in 1977 and never fully restored (what remains is still pretty vivid, so brace yourselves!). Excellent performances by the three leads, bolstered by Warren's unobtrusive direction, which takes full advantage of the stunning woodland locations, thereby compensating for the film's budgetary shortcomings. Originally released in the US as ALIEN PREY.