[3] The film features the cast of Gina Carano as Hattie McAllister, Donald Cerrone as Jeb McAllister, and Nick Searcy starring as The Captain, with Rhys Jackson Becker, Gabriel-Kane Day Lewis, Tyler Fischer, Heath Freeman, Samaire Armstrong, and Matthias Hues all featured in supporting roles.

In the 1870s, several years after the end of the Civil War, veteran Jeb McAllister and his wife Hattie struggle to raise their adolescent son Will and infant daughter in the wilds of Montana.

After Jeb leaves to go to town to find work so they can raise money for traveling, four strangers arrive and ask Hattie for some food and water.

As night falls, Hattie realizes that the reason the outlaws are unwilling to leave is that they are looking for Jeb (who is still in town) and want to use her and their children as bait.

Jeb, meanwhile, after failing to find any work and spending the evening drinking in a saloon, notices wanted posters of the men and recognizes them from his past during the war.

[7] On February 12, 2021, Deadline Hollywood reported that Gina Carano was set to develop, produce, and star in an upcoming film, which The Daily Wire would release exclusively to its members.

[10] The original plan had been to adapt the book "White Knuckle" by Eric Red but that project was pushed back in favor of making Terror on the Prairie instead.

[2] Jorge Castillo of Starburst gave it 2 out of 5 and was positive about director Michael Polish but critical of Carano's central performance, and stated that "The most interesting aspect of Terror on the Prairie has little to do with the movie itself.