Let Us Prey
In Let us Prey, Brian O’Malley directs a small cast of actors through some standard horror tropes to create a satisfactory movie about justice and punishment in a world wealthy with bad guys. That’s probably all you need to know to determine whether you will like this movie, so reading on will only serve to give horror fans a way to lure people to see the movie with their movie-gore-loving friend.
The movie follows eight characters through the night shift at a jail in a little Scottish town. Some of those characters are real creeps. We don’t get much of a chance to ponder the motivations of these creeps, but that’s probably fine for a horror flick.
On the less creepy front, Polly McIntosh does a convincing job portraying a rookie cop looking out for the innocents in this world, but it’s the mystery man played by Liam Cunningham who really drives the plot. This guy knows things and haunts people’s thoughts with their own skeletons.
As the play on words in the title suggests, you can expect religious utterances and morality-based retribution throughout Let Us Prey. Then again, this is a horror movie and a horror movie is hardly a horror movie without morality-based retribution.
