

“It’s like the franchise didn’t learn from The X-Files that we like the monster of the week,” he says.

Horror author Stephen Graham Jones says that most viewers don’t necessarily care about the backstory. Prey also largely ignores an expanded Predator universe that has grown increasingly convoluted over 35 years of movies, comics, and video games. quality of these movies,” he says, “but it seems to me that it’s got to be a pretty strong inverse correlation there.” “It would be interesting to graph what the relationship is between the number of characters who have speaking lines vs. Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy host David Barr Kirtley says that many recent Predator films have been overstuffed with one-dimensional characters. Prey has been a hit with audiences and critics alike, a much-needed boost for the franchise after flops like The Predator and Alien vs.
