John McTiernan’s Predator (1987) is rightfully hailed as an action classic, in large part because it successfully uses one genre to disrupt and collapse another. It begins as a story about American commandos heading into the Central American jungle to tackle Soviet-backed … Continue reading REVIEW: Prey (2022)
After an alien bursts from the chest of a dead Predator, its spacecraft crashes into the woods outside a small American town. When a number of facehuggers emerge from the wreckage and begin impregnating the humans, another Predator arrives to … Continue reading REVIEW: Alien vs Predator: Requiem (2007)
It is all Predator 2‘s fault. Back when that 1990 sequel was in production, a member of the design team mocked up the skull of an Alien from the 1979 Ridley Scott film and added it to a way of … Continue reading REVIEW: Alien v Predator (2004)
US army sniper Quinn McKenna (Boyd Holbrook) witnesses an alien spacecraft crash-land while in the field in South America. After sending an alien set of armour back home, he is promptly captured and interrogated by a secret government agency before … Continue reading REVIEW: The Predator (2018)
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