Predator - Watch Order: Core 80s
This watch list is the essential double feature that established the Predator legacy and defined the franchise's core concept. The films deliver the iconic 80s action feel with Arnold Schwarzenegger's legendary jungle encounter followed by the urban warfare of Los Angeles, showcasing the original genre-defining confrontations between humans and the invisible alien hunter.
The watch order captures the franchise at its purest - raw survival action with practical effects, memorable one-liners, and the fundamental concept of technologically superior aliens who hunt for honor and trophies. Experience the Predator mythology as it was originally conceived, focusing on small groups of humans using primitive tactics against a nearly unstoppable alien warrior.
Predator
A team of elite commandos on a secret mission in a Central American jungle come to find themselves hunted by an extraterrestrial warrior.
Predator 2
A police chief in the war-torn streets of Los Angeles discovers that an extraterrestrial creature is hunting down residents - and that he is the next target.
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