The Prey (1984 film)

The Prey was a film made in 1978citation needed but not released until 1984 by the duo of Edwin and Summer Brown and starring Steve Bond, Lori Lethin, and Jackie Coogan.

The film is set during the summer between high school graduation and college. The film begins with a couple Frank Ted Hayden and Mary Sylvester Connie Hunter cooking food over a campfire while being watched by a mysterious figure in the shadows played by Carel Struycken, but not seen until the end of the film. While Mary is taking a walk in the woods, she hears her husband scream and returns to the campsite to find her husbands decapitated corpse. She is then killed by the killer wielding her husbands axe. Several weeks later, three teenaged couples are hiking in the same remote forest high in the Colorado Rockies to enjoy the nature and to spend some time together. As they progress deeper into the wilderness, it becomes clear that the killer from the beginning of the film is stalking them. During their first night in the woods, Gail Gayle Gannes hears a noise and sends her boyfriend Greg Philip Wenckus to check out the disturbance. While isolated, they are both murdered by the killer.The next day, their friends find the couples gear missing and assume that they have turned back and gone home. The boys decide to head for the infamous Suicide Peak to do some rock climbing while the girls suntan. Meanwhile, the forest rangers Lester Tile Jackie Coogan and Mark OBrien Jackson Bostwick get a phone call about the missing Sylvester couple, and Mark heads for the forest to investigate. Before leaving, Lester tells Mark a story about a Gypsy boy he once saw during a forest fire years ago. The boy was covered in burns, horribly disfigured, and left for dead. ........

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