FILM
PREY
Dane DiLiegro as the new — or rather, old — Predator in town.
★★★★
OUT NOW (DISNEY+) CERT 15 / 99 MINS
DIRECTOR Dan Trachtenberg
CAST Amber Midthunder, Dakota Beavers, Dane DiLiegro, Stormee Kipp, Michelle Thrush, Julian Black Antelope
PLOT To earn her stripes as a warrior, Comanche hunter Naru (Midthunder) must take the ritual of kühtaamia and bring down a particularly dangerous beast. Unbeknownst to her, though, she and her tribe are themselves being hunted, and by a creature more deadly by far.
IF YOU WANT an accurate representation of the state of masculinity circa 1987, look no further than John McTiernan’s Predator. A platoon of oiled-up musclemen with biceps like bollards and Freudian überguns descend on Central America like some kind of WWE field trip — aRoyal Rumble in the jungle. It’s a big, fat testosterone milkshake of a movie that perfectly encapsulates the era. Prey, by contrast, takes the same basic set-up (warriors in the wilderness, hunted by an alien) but strips out the absurdity and neatly realigns the original with more modern sensibilities.