1987's Predator Has The Franchise's Scariest Moment (& Prey Can Use It)
The original Predator has the scariest moment in the whole franchise, and the upcoming Prey can replicate it. The Prey moviestory is set in 1719, with a young Comanche woman named Naru (Amber Midthunder) rising up to defend her people when they find themselves being hunted by the invisible Predator. Prey’s marketing showcases the movie as a throwback to the spine-tingling, suspenseful tone of the original Predator, which wrapped up on a moment of genuinely chilling terror.
In Predator, after Dutch (Arnold Schwarzenegger) has mortally wounded the Predator under a falling log trap, the alien hunter activates a self-destruct device on its wrist. As Dutch begins to put together the countdown to an explosion that is unfolding, the Predator lets out a maniacal villain laugh. Though Dutch manages to flee to safety before the bomb explodes, the almost supervillain-style laugh of the Predator is the movie’s most thoroughly scary moment.
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Prey, with its apparent blood-curdling tone and return to the fear of the unknown that the Predator embodies, can deliver its own pay-off on this moment. With Prey set hundreds of years before modern technology, Naru and her people will have very little to help put the nature of their Predator enemy into context. Adding a Predator villain laugh to Prey, whether mid-hunt or closer to the film’s end, could really drive up the horror factor of that scenario.
The Predator franchise, as a blend of sci-fi, action, and horror, has delivered great scares throughout its run. 2010’s Predators did the best job of equaling the nail-biting fright of Predator in moving the hunt to another planet used as a game-preserve by the
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