Prey (2022)

Matt Roush says...

Lions, bears and aliens, oh my! The Predator horror franchise takes one of its more unusual and rewarding turns in this suspenseful film set among the Comanche warriors and hunters of the Great Plains in the 1700s. Naru (the compelling Amber Midthunder) is a young tribal woman who yearns to be taken seriously as a hunter, and as genre convention dictates, she gets her chance when she goes up against the mostly invisible and fiendishly fearsome space-alien Predator from another world. The well-armed alien already has its hands full dealing with other predators in the field, most memorably clashing with a big bear. And Naru learns there are other dangerous stalkers out there, when she runs afoul of an ill-fated group of French trappers. The action is sustained, the setting refreshingly different and the scares palpable.

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