Netflix has a few foreign films (or series) on their roster this year. Prey is the first one that crossed my path. Despite my German heritage, I’ve never watched a German movie before. It did make me wonder how Germans would handle a horror movie.

Roman (David Kross) is celebrating his upcoming wedding with his friends. The five men have decided to spend the weekend in the mountains. When they begin to hear gunshots, the group thinks there are simply some hunters nearby. Little did they realize that they are the ones being hunted.

This may be the shortest review I have ever written. Prey is a terrible movie. Now I’ll admit that I watched it dubbed in English instead of in the original German language but I don’t think the original language could have made this any better. There is very little plot or characterization going on. The entire plot is literally this group of men being killed. We get a tiny glimpse into why the killer is shooting people but at no point does the movie tell us why these particular men are being killed. The reason we are given makes very little sense.

In addition, we don’t get to know anything about the men in order to make us sympathetic toward them. Sure, murdering people is bad but we don’t get any sense that these particular men don’t deserve it. We get some weird flashbacks of Roman with his fiancée, Lisa (Livia Matthes), but these don’t really tie into what is going on currently. I mean, we do learn a secret about Roman’s brother, Albert (Hanno Koffler), but it feels very tacked on and there are no repercussions to the secret.

It’s just a bad and pointless movie. Don’t bother watching it unless you are having trouble falling asleep. Though maybe you shouldn’t fall asleep to a murder movie.