2007 · adventure · horror · thriller
Prey
Directed by Darrell James Roodt1h 32m2007
An American family on holiday in Africa becomes lost in a game reserve and stalked by vicious killer lions.
Our read: Prey (2007) reads as a sombre, breathless, grounded adventure · horror · thriller entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, cold in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, breathless, measured adventure / horror, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, cold.
- sombre
- kinetic
- intense
- cold
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