Dissecting the Predator

Final Trailer Analysis

David Caracciolo
Sep 3, 2018 · 4 min read

“Knock, knock.” Check out the new trailer for The Predator, it’s gorious…

Sure, it’s not the perfect trailer, but it’s a vast improvement from the previous ones. They seem less confused over who they’re marketing to…

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The final trailer has finally got me excited for this movie and it’s only weeks away!!! So “stick around” while I examine “one ugly motherf*cker,” piece by piece…

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We start with the 20th Century Fox logo lit in Predator’s famous thermal vision. In this case, Disney is the Predator…

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A woman answers the door to greet a man holding a badge with two unamused thugs by his side. I’m guessing that she’s the hero’s wife guessing that her husband’s done something crazy again. She’s really pleased about it for some reason…

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Also, judging by the adornment on the door, this movie takes place on Halloween. I dig the choice of setting, not the choice of music. What is that?

We meet our hero, Quinn McKenna, who gets put into a so-called loony bus with the rest of the cast, but don’t get too attached. If this follow-up follows the script of the first Predator, they’ll get chopped up, one by one, by the alien game hunter, before they can “get to da choppa!”

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We see snippets of a previous encounter of the third kind until the big reveal… there’s more than one on the loose! The other one is double the size of your average Predator, The Big Show of alien monsters…

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“From director Shane Black” appears on screen. He actually appeared in the original 1987 film as Hawkins…

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Where he was the first to die… spoiler for a film that’s over 30 years old!!! Black would later go on to write Lethal Weapon, as well as direct Iron Man 3 among other classics. The latter wasn’t my favourite Marvel film, especially because of the way they trolled us with the Mandarin…

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Moving on. We get voiceover of Sterling K. Brown, of Black Panther fame, explaining why the Predators are so dangerous. We then see copious amounts of proof, as well as blood, to ram the message home.

Somehow Brown delivers this line with a straight face…

“Gentleman, they’re large, they’re fast, and fucking you up is their idea of tourism.”

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Oh sweet, the big Predator brought along some alien hunting dogs…

“Who let the dogs out?” (Credit: 20th Century Fox)

Not everyone is digging the inclusion of Predator hounds, but I think they’re barking mad!!!

Looks like Reek is gonna die in this movie. Once you show up on the Predator’s three dot cross hairs, you’re pretty much dead meat. I could be wrong. If not, they just gave it away in the trailer!

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How brutal is this scene of the big Predator stabbing this unfortunate dude?

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McKenna and the Predator give out their best warrior cry before the human gets picked up in a scene reminiscent of the final action scene of the original…

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An uplifting end to the trailer, even though it pretty much gives away the whole plot! Hopefully, we’ll still get some surprises. I think interest in this film was starting to die and they decided to show a lot more to get the crowds in.

It might be too late.

The initial marketing may’ve wounded this picture before landing and “if it bleeds, we can kill it.”


Thanks for reading. Come back… “anytime.”

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Last time I did something like this…

David Caracciolo

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