It’s a joy to watch Danton turn the tables on the baddies, and, looking a Random just happens to be Hogan’s former student and “the best”. It is a pretty big coincidence that a guy the mercenaries chose at In to the plot, seemingly as random as Danton is thrown into the forest. Not know it was this funny while they were filming it?įar from just a “homage” to First Blood (1982) and The Most Dangerous Game (1932),ĭeadly Prey is an entirely different beast. Or even the faces the characters make are a “laff” riot. Gem? Almost every line of dialogue (which is mostly in soundbite form) The tone is then set for what has to be the bestĪIP movie. There are at least three solid laughs in the first two minutes Will Danton - or you - ever be the same?įrom your average AIP jungle slog, this is far, far funnier. Additionally, his old ‘Nam buddy JackĬooper (Zipp), a former worker for Hogan, switches sides to the good He infiltrates Hogan’s training camp to find out Jaimy’s Dad is a retired cop with somewhere between 27 andģ0 years on the force. The way in the form of his concerned wife Jaimy (Tara) and her Father Shorts, Danton makes mincemeat of his fellow meatheads. Like an animal, with only his wits, his mullet and his undersized white Sybil (Abraham) he focuses all his energy on his former protege Danton, (Donahue) is breathing down his neck for results. Operation from behind his desk, but his corporate benefactor, Michaelson (Campbell) just wants to drink his New York Seltzer and run the Mercs hunt live prey as training exercises. Without warning, he is kidnapped by a team of mercenariesĪnd driven 75 miles southeast of Los Angeles into the forest, where said He just wants to getįive more minutes of sleep in his waterbed and take out the trash in Mike Danton (Prior) is just an average guy, we think at first.
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The upper echelon of action movie insanity. “Just remarkable,” Chankin says.Night Of The Kickfighters (1988). The poster is emblazoned with a neon-orange, heavily muscled mercenary decked out with daggers and bullet belts. “The holy grail of the collection, and one of my favorite movies,” he says. His favorite is for 1986’s Deadly Prey, the movie from which his gallery got its name. “Certain movies gained especially high notoriety for the outlandish nature of the posters, containing scenes and characters that may or may not be in the movie.”Ĭhankin’s been collecting these posters for about five years, and at this point owns more than 700. “Soon the movie posters became just as important as the actual movie being shown,” Chankin says. films, the posters took on a life of their own. Often absurdly over-the-top and supremely violent interpretations of U.S. One way to get villagers lining up at your truck was to advertise with outrageous, colorful, hand-painted posters.
This form of entertainment-typically a truck equipped with power generators, TVs, and a library of movies-was an instant success, spawning competing companies. In the 80s, Ghanaian mobile cinemas showed movies in villages that didn’t have electricity. Chicago) in West Town to showcase his massive stockpile of weirdo movie posters from Ghana. Not only was Chankin able to open the out-there video rental store in Bucktown with his own DVD and VHS collection a dozen years ago, but this summer, with help from his sister Heidi Anne Chankin, he started up Deadly Prey Gallery (1433 W. “I’ve always considered myself a movie guy and a collector,” says Brian Chankin, owner and operator of Odd Obsession, in what may be the understatement of the year.
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