I've started this post a few times now and each time I find myself getting stuck. That's not to say that there isn't a lot to mention, or specific things to pick out and branch off on. It's more of a way of stating that this film came from a lot of crazy angles... and I mean crazy.
Let Us Prey is a UK film set in a small Scotland town. Our primary character, Rachel, is a rookie police officer that, through the passage of the film, we find that she has been through and survived her own personal hell. This is important because during the course of the film, every other character aside from one (whom I will get to in a moment) will be forced to face their greatest sins and it drives them to madness and death.
The extra character that I'm speaking of is named Six, and supposedly died many years ago. Think of Six as a person that isn't quite an angel, but not a demon either. He exists simply to make those with darker secrets know that he knows and in turn the souls are collected by the end of the evening. Those that he collects range from a man that beats his wife, to a closeted homosexual police chief, to a doctor that murdered his family in an experiment to find the human soul.
During the course of the Let Us Prey the film itself becomes more and more extreme. At first it ranges from normal rage and insanity to an eventual bible-verse-quoting-wrapped-in-barwire-with-a-shotgun crazy. That's a thing that happens. The police chief is attempting to dispose of the bodies of gay men he slept with and killed and just kind of snaps. Well, I guess snaps further. Snap crackle pop? That might get a cease and desist.
I give Let Us Prey 3 Judgement cards out of 5:
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