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Films like The Predator.

The Predator (2018) reads as Sombre, breathless, extreme sci-fi / action, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, epic, measured. Every film below is ranked by distance across the same twelve hand-scored axes — with what it keeps, and where it walks away. Not a genre dump.

Upgrade (2018) poster
1. Upgrade2018

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the white-knuckle intensity — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Greenland (2020) poster
2. Greenland2020

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the white-knuckle intensity — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Lockout (2012) poster
3. Lockout2012

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the white-knuckle intensity — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Space/Time (2025) poster
4. Space/Time2025

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the white-knuckle intensity — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Outside the Wire (2021) poster
5. Outside the Wire2021

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the white-knuckle intensity — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

I Am Number Four (2011) poster
6. I Am Number Four2011

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the white-knuckle intensity — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Prey (2022) poster
7. Prey2022

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the white-knuckle intensity — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

57 Seconds (2023) poster
8. 57 Seconds2023

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the white-knuckle intensity — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Riddick (2013) poster
9. Riddick2013

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the white-knuckle intensity — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Levels (2024) poster
10. Levels2024

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the white-knuckle intensity — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Terminator: Dark Fate (2019) poster
11. Terminator: Dark Fate2019

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the white-knuckle intensity — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Chappie (2015) poster
12. Chappie2015

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the white-knuckle intensity — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

These are The Predator’s neighbours — where are yours?

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