After a hiatus of seven years – and two films that were shown live – predator The franchise returns to theaters this week with Predator: Badlands. Directed by Dan Trachtenberg and starring Elle Fanning, the film follows the unlikely partnership between an alien hunter (played by Demetrius Schuster-Kolamatangi) and a robot (Fanning).
If you saw the film in theaters this weekend and want to keep the horror and sci-fi vibe going at home — or can’t get to the theater yet and want to scratch the same itch from the comfort of your couch — here are five options for more home viewing that are all available to stream now.
Total recall (1990)
the predator The franchise began as a rough and tumble vehicle for Arnold Schwarzenegger with a deadly creature design by Stan Winston. When the film became a hit, producers began working on a sequel, which in the initial stages would follow Dutch Schwarzenegger as another Predator-killing cop on the streets of Los Angeles. But Schwarzenegger was never satisfied with the script Predator 2 (Or the money he was offered to do so [or both])So Predator 2 Go without it – and instead go ahead and make a better sci-fi classic.
in Total recallSchwarzenegger plays a man named Douglas Quaid, a humble construction worker in a dystopian future. Or is he really a man named Hauser who was brainwashed and tricked into believing he was Quaid so he couldn’t interfere in the affairs of the powerful superintendent of the Mars colony? Paul Veroheven’s twisty thriller combines truly powerful action, clever humor, and thought-provoking themes about identity and self. It is currently streaming on Paramount+.
Midnight run (1988)
Yes, Predator: Badlands It has a lot of sci-fi and horror elements. But it’s also about two unlikely partners in an adventure — a predator named Dek and a robot named Thia — which also makes it a mismatched buddy movie. And if you like mismatched buddy movies, you better watch the best mismatched buddy movie ever: Midnight run.
It stars these two great icons of action cinema: Robert De Niro and Charles Grodin. Okay, so maybe these aren’t the names one thinks of when they imagine a classic action picture from the ’80s, but in some ways, that’s part of the fun. These are unlikely themes for an all-out comedy chase movie. De Niro plays a bounty hunter hired to find and bring back a mob accountant (Grudin) who jumped bail. The two men couldn’t be more different, which only accentuates the comedy as their cross-country journey goes off the rails. As of this writing, Midnight run It is currently streaming on Netflix.
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Forgetting (2013)
One of the pleasures predator The films, especially since they were taken over by director Dan Trachtenberg, are the endless array of weapons and gadgets used by the Predators. And if you’re looking for this kind of fun and practical sci-fi production design, it’s worth tracking down Forgettingone of the most beautifully designed science fiction films of the century.
Tom Cruise stars as the Last Man on Earth, a ranger tasked with holding down the proverbial fortress on Earth left behind by humanity after an alien attack. But Cruise’s character can’t remember his past, and there’s something fishy about his sad, lonely job. Gradually he discovers the sinister truth about the post-apocalyptic reality, and begins to set things right.
It’s not the most original sci-fi story in the world, but every last bit of technology, from the weapons to the pilots of the bubble ship Cruise around the planet, feels very tangible and real. ForgettingWhich was also the beginning of the partnership between Cruise and Top Gun: Maverick Director Joseph Kosinski is currently on Netflix.
Mickey 17 (2025)
It’s been a really good year for sci-fi movies, and one of the best is already streaming on HBO Max. Bong Joon-ho’s long-awaited follow-up parasite Follows a man in a dystopian future – There are a lot of dystopian futures in cinema lately, and I wonder why?!? Everything seems to be going well!! – who agrees to become an “expendable”, tackling the deadly tasks necessary for the future of space colonization.
Every time Mickey performs one of these tasks and dies while performing the task, he is reprinted into a new body. (Hence the “consumed” part.) He has reached the 17th iteration when there is an error – resulting in Mickey running the 18th at the same time. Mickey 17 It might be a little more uneven than Bong’s Oscar win parasitebut perhaps this is the next form of the function. A film with 18 almost identical leads with some subtle personality differences will likely have some fluctuations in mood and tone of its own as well. Mickey 17 Now on HBO Max.
Predator: Killer of assassins
Predator: Badlands It is actually the second of two predator Films released this year by director Dan Trachtenberg. The first, an animated anthology film called Kill the killerswent straight to Hulu over the summer. If you avoided it because you thought a predator The animation can’t live up to the action in a live action movie, think again. It may actually be the bloodiest and most violent predator movie ever.
The film tells several short stories, each involving warriors from different time periods: a Viking, a samurai, and a World War II fighter pilot, all of whom meet and fight the Predator. The stories then intersect in a conclusion that feels very natural, and even hints at an elaborate, bizarre mythology that could come to fruition in future installments. because Kill the killers It’s an anthology, the individual stories are relatively short and the characters aren’t fleshed out as much as they could be – but that also means that the film never really drags on, and it’s not long before the next wild animated action sequence begins. Kill the killers It’s still available on Hulu (or on Disney+, if you subscribe to both services.)
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