The latest Predator movie – the series’ first foray into animation – is much more than a quick retread of old ideas in three distant settings.

The Predator franchise is continuing in a big way this year with the arrival of two different new films in the series from director Dan Trachtenberg. After revitalizing Predator with 2022’s Prey, Trachtenberg not only has this fall’s Predator: Badlands hitting theaters, but the animated film Predator: Killer of Killers, which is currently on Hulu.

At worst, it might have given fans and wider audiences alike reason to pause. Instead, the future of "Predator" has never felt brighter in the wake of "Killer of Killers." Unlike the Yautja's active camouflage,