LET US PREY is a cheap single-location Scottish horror film with an isolated police station at its heart. There are similarities to Carpenter's ASSAULT ON PRECINCT 13, but this is a film that manages to play out with virtually no suspense at all, just smatterings of gore and philosophical mumbo-jumbo. The story sees a mysterious stranger (Liam Cunningham, underplaying it) turning up and turning the psychological thumbscrews on the assembled cops and crims via some supernatural trickery. Pollyanna McIntosh is the typically tough heroine who has to figure things out. I found this promising at the outset, although it becomes drawn out and interminable by the climax thanks to cliched writing and unlikeable characters.

"Let Us Prey" is a weird low-budget movie, with a very strange and gore story. The town, for example, seems to have no dwellers. The location is basically the same, inside a precinct. Things happen and there is no outsider in the story. Liam Cunningham and Pollyanna McIntosh have good performances, but the conclusion does not make much sense. The reason why Rachel Heggie is in Six´s list is not clear. The black humor is the good part of this watchable film. My vote is four.

Title (Brazil): "Aprisionados" ("Imprisoned")

The movie opens with a great soundtrack and visuals involving a man coming from the ocean accompanied by ominous ominous crows. Rachel Haggie (Pollyanna McIntosh) is a police constable on loan working the night shift. She wakes up from a bad dream of her past and a puzzling crow's feather under her pillow. The film had me hooked at this point. She goes to the station and people slowly get arrested. Our mysterious stranger shows up, a man of little words, but one "who knows." The creep factor heightens as strange things happen. He gives us a few lines that I liked. One was:

When he is told "Go to hell." He replies, Why? "All the devils are here."

The film mostly takes place in the police station. It is similar to"The Traveler" with Val Kilmer. It is not hard to figure out the stranger. The fun is watching it unfold.

Guide: F-bomb. Sex. Near nudity.