![]() This costs the film some of the original’s creeping dread, but the Predator’s full, uncloaked reveal (doused in ursine blood) shocks with a startling, sinister new look: this is one even uglier motherfucker. There is a scene where a man says he's going to rape a woman and then it cuts away as he climbs on top of her (both of them still fully clothed) and later she says that he raped her. ![]() So Prey plays to the gallery, never coy about what’s waiting in the trees. A man and woman are kissing and he starts to take off her shirt but then they are interrupted - no nudity involved. Trachtenberg, though, is all too aware that the bulk of his audience has been here before. A group of sadistic mercenaries kidnap people off the streets and set them loose on the grounds of their secret camp, so the students at the camp can learn. McTiernan’s original was a showpiece for slow-burn tension, tapping into the claustrophobic terror of an enemy unseen. The gender commentary may not be subtle, but it is stark and to the point. Consistently underestimated, she’s even marginalised by the Predator, who refuses to acknowledge the hunting party’s lone female, at one point literally unable to see her as it casts about for worthy prey. Naru may lack the no-neck brawn of Dutch’s crew, but she’s wiry and ferret-quick, efficiently dispatching quarry both four-legged and two with bow, blade and tomahawk-on-a-rope (genius) in a symphony of choreographed mayhem that wouldn’t look out of place in John Wick: Chapter 4. A ferocious heroine, authentic period setting, and a bloody string of inventive action beats.Įlectrifying every scene, Midthunder is a ball of elemental fury, imbuing Naru with shatterproof resolve and ruthless pragmatism - a meeting between barbed saw-blade and French colonialist’s leg is chillingly matter-of-fact - yet Patrick Aison’s economical script never robs her of empathy, nor suggests a need to adopt masculine traits in order to outwit and out-fight any man who gets in her way. Deadly Prey Gallery (deadlypreygallery) Instagram photos and videos deadlypreygallery 2,904 posts 71.7k followers 1,165 following Deadly Prey Gallery Hand-painted Ghanaian movie posters We work w/10 artists in Ghana DM for Commission info Prints & Book for sale, all profits to the artists linktr.
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