Movie Substrate · Film
Predators (2010)
★ 6.3 · 4,594 ratings on TMDB
They are the most dangerous killers on the planet. But this is not our planet.
A group of cold-blooded killers find themselves trapped on an alien planet to be hunted by extraterrestrial Predators.
DirectorNimród Antal
The emergence reading
In Predators, consciousness is carried by aliens — a plane of “alien hunting preserve”. The story fights on E8 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing survival, predation, hunt.
↷ aliensUSsurvivalpredationhunt
Same rung, same subject
Films fighting at the same level of reality, about the same things.
Same subject, different rung
The same preoccupations examined at another scale — one mind versus a nation.
Also hides consciousness here
Other films that move a human interior onto the same kind of thing.
Predator (1987)consciousness in aliens · jungle hunt
Predator 2 (1990)consciousness in aliens · urban hunting ground
AVP: Alien vs. Predator (2004)consciousness in aliens · alien hunting arena
Critters 2 (1988)consciousness in aliens · alien invasion horror
Species (1995)consciousness in aliens · alien hybrid chase
War of the Worlds (2005)consciousness in aliens · alien invasionSame subject, different mask
The same preoccupations carried by a different kind of thing — grief told through the dead, an animal, a machine.
30 Days of Night (2007)consciousness in monsters · predation, survival
Deep Blue Sea (1999)consciousness in animals · predation, survival
Near Dark (1987)consciousness in monsters · predation, survival
Bambi: A Tale of Life in the Woods (2024)consciousness in animals · predation, survival
Burnt Offerings (1976)consciousness carried elsewhere · predation, survival
Terminator Genisys (2015)consciousness in machines · survival
