History Film / Prey2022

The film was released on Creator/{{Hulu}} in the United States and on Creator/DisneyPlus internationally on the 5th of August, then on Blu-ray in early 2024. Trachtenberg has also [[https://www.timeout.com/news/prey-everything-you-need-to-know-about-the-new-predator-movie-062822 implied]] that ideas are being discussed for a possible expansion of the franchise. In 2024, it was [[https://deadline.com/2024/02/dan-trachtenberg-predator-movie-badlands-1235820417/ announced]] that Trachtenberg would direct another standalone picture in the franchise, titled ''Badlands''. Additionally, a second ''Prey'' film was also confirmed to be in development.

The film was released on Creator/{{Hulu}} in the United States and on Creator/DisneyPlus internationally on the 5th of August. Trachtenberg has also [[https://www.timeout.com/news/prey-everything-you-need-to-know-about-the-new-predator-movie-062822 implied]] that ideas are being discussed for a possible expansion of the franchise. In 2024, it was [[https://deadline.com/2024/02/dan-trachtenberg-predator-movie-badlands-1235820417/ announced]] that Trachtenberg would direct another standalone picture in the franchise, titled ''Badlands''. Additionally, a second ''Prey'' film was also confirmed to be in development.

''Prey'' is a 2022 ActionHorror film directed by Creator/DanTrachtenberg (''Film/TenCloverfieldLane''). The film stars Creator/AmberMidthunder, Dakota Beavers, Michelle Thrush, and Dane [=DiLiegro=], the latter of whom plays the Feral Predator. The film is the fifth installment in the ''Franchise/{{Predator}}'' film series, serving as a shake-up for the franchise, as it focuses on a time period in the distant past rather than the modern day, and is also the first in the series to be produced by [[Creator/TwentiethCenturyStudios Disney]].

** No mention is made of the temperature, and it seems an average spring/summer, whereas the first two films established the Predators prefer to hunt when it is uncomfortably warm for humans. Some EU materials credit Predator armor with advanced climate control, meaning they could theoretically hunt anywhere under any temperature conditions, but this is not confirmed in the films. And if the Feral Predator is indeed from a harsher and more arid region of their homeworld, logic would suggest it would prefer temperatures even hotter than the previously-seen Predators.

** The timeframe established by the title card of 1719 doesn't completely jibe with the way the Comanche environment and culture in real life would have been at that time. In 1719, the Comanche Nation primarily lived in modern day Texas, which at that time was being encroached on by Spain. The Comanche made the transition to a nomadic horse culture after moving north into Colorado in the 1830s. The original script actually didn't include horses at all, but this was changed after producer and cultural consultant Jhane Myers, who is a member of the Comanche Nation, [[https://www.radiotimes.com/movies/predator-prequel-prey-real-history-exclusive/ insisted upon their inclusion, saying that "You can't have Comanche without horses!"]]

** Further more there were absolutely no reported conflicts between a French expedition and the Comanche. In fact their only real conflict during this time period would be against the Spanish and New Mexico trying to expend into their territory and later on with the United States during their expansion. The French in general didn't have a lot of direct interaction with the Comanche, with most of their influence being felt through French-aligned tribes like the Osage and the Pawnee, either through trade or conflict.

** A character uses an herb that causes their body temperature to drop so that they can't be seen with thermographic vision. There is no medication, herbal or otherwise, that would cause a person's body temperature to rapidly drop to match the ambient temperature, and if someone's body temperature did somehow drop that low without causing death, the person would be incapacitated and unable to fight alien hunters.

** A character hides from the alien's thermographic vision by taking an herb that causes their body temperature to drop to the ambient temperature. Ignoring the biological lack of realism of people being able to easily survive their body cooling that much, it takes hours for a human body to reach ambient temperature, even if it's dead, and this is shown as working in a few minutes.

* UncertainDoom: Hell, [[spoiler:Naru, Sarii, Aruka, and the ''entire Comanche village'']] can be considered this given [[spoiler:TheStinger where three Predator ships decloak and descend from the clouds with intentions unknown. Given the fact the flintlock pistol Naru obtained [[Film/Predator2 ends up in the hands of the Elder Greyback]], things don't look well]].

The film was released on Creator/{{Hulu}} in the United States and on Creator/DisneyPlus internationally on the 5th of August. Trachtenberg has also [[https://www.timeout.com/news/prey-everything-you-need-to-know-about-the-new-predator-movie-062822 implied]] that ideas are being discussed for a possible expansion of the franchise. In 2024, it was [[https://deadline.com/2024/02/dan-trachtenberg-predator-movie-badlands-1235820417/ announced]] that Trachtenberg would direct another standalone picture in the franchise, titled ''Badlands''.

The film was released on Creator/{{Hulu}} in the United States and on Creator/DisneyPlus internationally on the 5th of August. Trachtenberg has also [[https://www.timeout.com/news/prey-everything-you-need-to-know-about-the-new-predator-movie-062822 implied]] that ideas are being discussed for a possible expansion of the franchise.

* RealityHasNoSubtitles: The French trappers' dialogue isn't subtitled, leaving most of what they say a mystery to those who don't understand French. Some unsubtitled Comanche is also spoken (in the English dub, that is).

* AssholeVictim:
** One of the [[spoiler:Comanche hunters that is tasked with finding Naru, Wasape,]] is nothing but an asshole to her, so naturally, you won't shed a tear seeing him getting massacred by the Predator. Unlike the other hunters, he doesn't even go down fighting.
** The [[spoiler:French trackers' leader]] is a massive sack of shit who [[spoiler:leads a party to massacre the bison only for their pelts, cages both Naru and Taabe, tortures the latter, and later abandons his men]]. After [[spoiler:Naru captures him and cuts off his leg and then uses him as bait, as his men had previously cut Taabe and tied him and Naru to a stake as Predator bait,]] it's damn satisfying to see him get cut down by the Predator.

* TranslationConvention: Any and all English spoken in the movie -- [[GratuitousEnglish barring a brief moment of the French trappers talking to each other and swearing in English for some reason]] -- is actually Comanche, as demonstrated by Raphael stating that he speaks multiple languages and recognizing that Naru is of Comanche descent. That being said, a substantial amount of untranslated Comanche still features in the film. Almost fully averted by the Comanche dub of the film, barring the few English lines used by the trappers.

* BelatedInjuryRealization: Crossed with MortalWoundReveal. A wolf charges at the Predator, which slashes at it. The wolf turns around and prepares to charge again... before its head tumbles off.

** The Predator's cloaking system does not short out in water, as it did in the previous films. The film is set some 300 years earlier, but if Predator technology changed over that relatively short span of time (for a space-faring species), it should improve, not decline.

* BattleTrophy: [[spoiler:The Predator makes trophies out of the rattlesnake's skin, the coyote's skull, and the bear's blood. Naru brings back its head and Raphael's flintlock as trophies of her own at the end of the movie]].

** Further more there were absolutely no reported conflicts between a French expedition and the Comanche. In fact their only real conflict during this time period would be against the Spanish and New Mexico trying to expend into their territory and later on with the United States during their expansion.

* TapOnTheHead: Naru falls from a tree during the encounter with the mountain lion, and [[spoiler:is knocked out when her head lands on a rock, something far more dangerous than the film portrays. She also gets knocked senseless by a musket butt before waking up with only a mild headache.]]

* TisOnlyABulletInTheBrain: [[spoiler:Naru shoots the Predator in the back of the head with her pistol at point blank range, which knocks its mask off as the bullet emerges out the other side of its skull, yet it’s more angry than anything else despite sustaining such an injury. Getting it to shoot itself with its own weapon does the trick though.

* BladeOnAStick: Many throughout the film, wielded by both the Comanche warriors and the Predator.

* HopeSpot: For a moment, it looks like [[spoiler:Raphael might actually survive his encounter with the Predator by playing dead, thanks to Naru's medicine, despite his blood still leading the creature to him. Then the Predator ends up stepping on Raphael's seemingly-dead body as he tries to move away, causing him to howl in pain and ensuring a painful death]].

* TisOnlyABulletToTheBrain: [[spoiler:Naru shoots the Predator in the back of the head with her pistol at point blank range, which knocks its mask off as the bullet emerges out the other side of its skull, yet it’s more angry than anything else despite sustaining such an injury. Getting it to shoot itself with its own weapon does the trick though.

* StayInTheKitchen: Downplayed. Naru's mother tells her father gave her his weapon so she could cut vegetables and doesn't see why Naru wants so badly to prove herself as a hunter, citing Naru's talents as an herbalist and potential medicine woman. The young Comanche hunters aren't too thrilled with Naru not gathering roots and herbs or preparing meals with the other women in their tribe as she was in the start of the film and regularly insult, demean, and question her worth. They also rough up, sucker punch her in the head from behind, and tie Naru's hands together when she tries to warn them of the monster which killed the bear and is spooking the animals. However, though their actions fit the trope very well otherwise, none of the hunters ever explicitly demean her for her gender, but rather because [[JerkassHasAPoint she]] ''[[JerkassHasAPoint is]]'' [[JerkassHasAPoint an inexperienced hunter]]. It helps Naru's case that [[BigBrotherInstinct Taabe]] is their leader and actively praises her talents in tracking, observation, and healing, which is implied to be whyy they even tolerate her tagging along.

* StayInTheKitchen: Downplayed. Naru's mother tells her father gave her his weapon so she could cut vegetables and doesn't see why Naru wants so badly to prove herself as a hunter, citing Naru's talents as an herbalist and potential medicine woman. The young Comanche hunters aren't too thrilled with Naru not gathering roots and herbs or preparing meals with the other women in their tribe as she was in the start of the film and regularly insult,demean, and question her worth. They also rough up, sucker punch her in the head from behind, and tie Naru's hands together when she tries to warn them of the monster which killed the bear and is spooking the animals. However, though their actions fit the trope very well otherwise, none of the hunters ever explicitly demean her for her gender, but rather because [[JerkassHasAPoint she]] ''[[JerkassHasAPoint is]]'' [[JerkassHasAPoint an inexperienced hunter]]. It helps Naru's case that [[BigBrotherInstinct Taabe]] is their leader and actively praises her talents in tracking, observation, and healing, which is implied to be whyy they even tolerate her tagging along.