{"id":26973,"date":"2026-08-06T18:02:35","date_gmt":"2026-08-06T22:02:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/?p=26973"},"modified":"2026-08-06T18:02:35","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T22:02:35","slug":"prey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2026\/08\/prey\/","title":{"rendered":"Prey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{5\/5} &#8220;You&#8217;re ready to hunt something that&#8217;s hunting you.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Prey<\/strong>, released in 2022<\/p>\n<p>In 1719 Naru is a Comanche girl who knows about herbs for healing but she also wants to hunt. She&#8217;s very skilled with axe throwing, and has a faithful dog, Sarii. She even invents a new technique, tying a rope to an axe so she can get it back quicker. They almost catch a deer in the forest but get distracted. A predator has arrived, one unlike any she has imagined.<\/p>\n<p>I wasn&#8217;t expecting to watch any <strong>Predator<\/strong> movies after the first one, and was startled to find how amazing this one is many years later.<\/p>\n<p>It was beautifully filmed, both day and night scenes.<\/p>\n<p>There are some intense parts.<\/p>\n<p>The solution is clever, and makes sense based on what we know.<\/p>\n<p>I liked how the indigenous people were portrayed &#8212; they&#8217;re just normal people doing their normal things.<\/p>\n<p>It was filmed in Alberta.<\/p>\n<p>Stars Amber Midthunder, Dakota Beavers, and Dane DiLiegro. Directed by Dan Trachtenberg (<strong>10 Cloverfield Lane<\/strong>). The music is by <span class=\"duration-200\" lang=\"en-US\">Sarah Schachner.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{5\/5} &#8220;You&#8217;re ready to hunt something that&#8217;s hunting you.&#8221; Prey, released in 2022 In 1719 Naru is a Comanche girl who knows about herbs for healing but she also wants to hunt. She&#8217;s very skilled with axe throwing, and has a faithful dog, Sarii. She even invents a new technique, tying a rope to an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[6,5,8],"class_list":["post-26973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies","tag-movie","tag-review","tag-science-fiction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26973","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26973"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26973\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26977,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26973\/revisions\/26977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}