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PREY TBC

DIRECTOR Dan Trachtenberg STARRING Amber Midthunder, Dakota Beavers, Stormee Kipp, Dane DiLiegro SCREENPLAY Patrick Aison DISTRIBUTORDisney/20th Century Studios RUNNING TIME 99 mins

★★★★☆ OUT NOW STAR ON DISNEY+

If director Dan Trachtenberg offered a canny twist on what follow-ups can be with 2016’s , he does-series entry. Rejecting any temptation to go bigger and brawnier, or to simply indulge nostalgia, is a more lateral beast than most IP variants; a (green) blood relative, not an expansion pack. Relocating the saga, it strips the core concept down and rebuilds it in fierce, full-bodied survivalist shapes. And then – crucially – has shit-tons of fun finding ways to notch up a skull count.

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