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Predator (1987)
Directed by John McTiernan
influenced The Prey: Legend of Karnoctus (2022)
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The action thriller often assumes the furry mongrel’s POV – the X-ray shots bring to mind Predator ‘s heat vision.
Instead, directors Cire and Matthew Hensman craft a fairly basic feature with a central heist plot that is plucked straight from David O. Russell’s Three Kings , which borrows its subterranean-soldiers-versus-killing-machine elements wholesale from Alien , Aliens and Predator .
From the Hensman brothers, Cire and Matthew, is The Prey just your average Predator rip-off (which isn’t necessarily a bad thing), or is it something else entirely?
But if you come in wanting a homage to Predator , good news.
It’s odd they didn’t go the full on Predator homage by having Trejo, Paul, and the other members of the Tagger mercenary team be the sole focus of the movie, but then the production likely couldn’t afford to have them for more than a day or two anyway.
For example, it’s structured a lot like Predator, starting out as an action film and then morphing into a horror flick once the soldiers find out they’re being hunted by a monster.