Not every franchise can have a comeback as consistently strong as what Predator is having right now. Beginning with 2022’s Prey , the sci-fi horror series has found itself revitalized between that and this year’s Predator: Killer of Killers and Predator: Badlands , the latter of which hit theaters this past weekend.

Directing all three is Dan Trachtenberg , whose feature film debut was 2016’s 10 Cloverfield Lane . Along with each film giving longtime Predator fans things they’ve wanted or didn’t expect—like officially canonizing the term “Yautja” in these movies or Killer pitting the aliens against different historical factions—what binds them together are the thematic threads that run between specific pairs or the full trilogy and may define the filmmaker’s

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