When director Dan Trachtenberg made and released Prey , it was truly a game-changer. Here, finally, was a cool, new Predator movie that made us forget the crappy ones that had come before. One that was as exciting and original as the Arnold Schwarzenegger film that kicked off the franchise. It opened all sorts of other doors, too. If Predators were hunting people all the way in the past, what else could that mean?

The answer to that question came in five parts. Four of them unfolded in Predator: Killer of Killers , an excellent animated anthology film featuring Predators hunting prey across time, and the fifth is in theaters this weekend, Predator: Badlands. Trachtenberg directed all three movies, but Badlands is the first one coming to theaters. And rightfully so. The

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