Nerds That Geek Movie Review: ‘Let Us Prey’

Written by Scott Edwards

Everyone has their little secrets and for the most part, nobody really cares. There is nothing wrong with keeping your mouth shut when it comes to things you are ashamed of, but there must be a point to come clean, especially if somebody has been hurt by your actions. There are so many things that nobody cares about, the theft of a chocolate bar from the supermarket, running a red light, yelling profanities outside of your place of business. But if you decide to keep the bigger offences hidden from the world, a hit and run, beating a loved one, or killing someone, you become a time bomb and you quickly discover that there is always someone looking for you to account for your sins. 

Rookie PC Rachel Heggie is making her way to the station when she witnesses an accident before her very eyes. Pulling the young driver, Caesar, out of his car and putting the cuffs on him, neither Rachel nor Caesar are able to locate the body of the man that was hit. Knowing what she saw, Rachel takes the young man to the station and meets her new boss, Sargent MacReady for the first time. After finding out that Caesar is a multiple offender, he is thrown into lock up for the night and an APB is put out for the other two officers in town to be the on the lookout of the injured man.

The injured stranger is found and brought into the police station for questioning and since he is not speaking, Doctor Hume has been called into check on the his mental state. The good doctor looks into the stranger’s eyes and flips out over what he is seeing. Knowing that the stranger knows what he did, the doctor tries to kill him before anyone can find out the truth. The doctor is tossed in a cell as well as young Caesar knows he will have some great blackmail chips to play when he gets out, courtesy of the town’s doctor and one of his teachers Mr. Beswick. The stranger is questioned about what Hume was yelling about and who he really is since his fingerprints were that of man that died in the seventies. The stranger will not answer the questions in the way that MacReady wants, so he is thrown down into the cells as well.

As everyone is quickly finding out, the stranger knows their deepest darkest secrets, and PC’s Warnock and Mundie head to Doctor Hume’s house to see what he is afraid of people finding out while Sargent MacReady goes home to bury his secret. Rachel is left alone in the station and all hell starts to break loose when Mr. Beswick kills himself. The stranger watches as Mr. Beswick’s body is taken upstairs away from the other inmates but his work is far from done. When PC’s Warnock and Mundie return to the station, they have seen what horrors Doctor Hume has committed in his home and return the favor in the interrogation room in front of Rachel. While Rachel knows what they did was wrong, she is now part of the problem and tries to get ahold of MacReady to warn him of the travesty. But MacReady may not be the answer as he is looking for his own retribution and is ready to kill anybody that gets in his way.

Wow, this movie packs so many punches and all in the right places. As you quickly find out about the small town, everyone has their secrets and will do anything to cover them up, but the appearance of the stranger makes them understand that they will not be able to get away with it. As Rachel has just returned to her hometown to be an officer, her deep dark secret is revealed by the stranger as well, but it has nothing to do with her being in the wrong. Watching as each character has to deal with their downfalls turns into magic on the screen and you even get to witness what they did which makes it even better. This movie has jumped to the top of my favorites list and that does not happen very often. Huge props to the cast and crew that brought this story to life, since it is not all about the scares with this story, it is about the darkness that we keep inside that we probably should not. Stay Scared!

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