Let Us Prey (2015)

Good concept, poorly executed.

Excellent and certainly provocative... If nothing else, the film is a real conversation starter.

A terrific literary drama and character piece that shows how the process of creating art can be seen differently by those doing it and those looking at it from the outside.

Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

Found this and read a few reviews and decided to check it out. Decent enough to be worth the watch.I understand that lots of people love ambiguity in horror and, in fact, I do to an extent. My only problem with this was that I never could figure out just who the stranger was. Mystic man from the sea, Lucifer, Reaper, I just couldn't really place him enough to understand the significance of how the film ended. I didn't quite catch it in his final monologue either. That took away from how awesome most of the movie had been. I wanted the reveal. Aside from that, I thought the film was well shot. The actors were solid in their performances and the creepy, horrific nature of the film was there without going overboard. It is a bit of a slow burn though.Check it out.

An absolute gem of a movie. The cast were brilliant. The shocks were enough to make me go YUK. Six was so scary. He just needed to look at someone and you knew they were next. The ending was not what I expected and I loved it. If you love horror with a twist then you have to watch this movie.

This British/Irish film doesn't present a particularly reassuring image of the police force, at least not in the remote Scottish village in which the story is set. They are either using their patrol duty for sex opportunities or taking steps to make life as uncomplicated as possible for themselves. This is the environment new recruit PC Rachel Heggie (Polyanna McKintosh so good in 2011'a 'The Woman', 2014's 'White Settlers' and the 'Walking the Dead' television series) walks into.A mysterious man, known as Six (the always excellent and intense Liam Cunningham) arrives without explanation at the police station and is placed amongst the other prisoners held there – wife-beater Ralph (Jonathan Watson) and a small time crook Caeser (Brian Vernel). The colour-grading is hugely drab: all dawn raw blue and urine yellow. It induces a slightly sickly atmosphere.This is superbly directed by Brian O'Malley who manages to create some gory death moments virtually guaranteed to lift you from your seat. The ending, and the true identity of Six, remains enigmatic to the end. And yet there is a sense of closure on this particular night's events that satisfies whilst appearing to be end only of the first chapter of a continuing narrative.'Let us Prey' is a tremendous production that never slackens its pace and doesn't put a foot wrong. Love it.

I've given this movie an extra star due to comparison with so many other horror movies I had watched the same night. 'Let Us Prey' is a cut above, both in story and in execution. The performances are all stellar, with Liam Cunningham exceptionally charismatic, and the supporting rogue's gallery exceptionally vile. The cinematography is stylish and beautiful, framing the drama and carnage with equal beauty, miring the drama in oppressive shadow and the slaughter in infernal light. It is a movie greater than the sum of its parts; chilling and humorous, and indulgent and thoughtful. I really wish more people had seen it on release."It does not surprise me that the Devil is an Irishman." - Friend, A Field In England