PREDATOR: KILLER OF KILLERS First Social Media Reactions Land - Here's What Critics Are Saying

PREDATOR: KILLER OF KILLERS First Social Media Reactions Land - Here's What Critics Are Saying

The social media embargo for Predator: Killer of Killers just lifted, but what are critics saying about filmmaker Dan Trachtenberg's follow-up to 2022's Prey? Well, it sounds like a bloody delight...

By JoshWilding - Jun 01, 2025 07:06 AM EST
Filed Under: Predator
Source: SFFGazette.com

As we first reported on SFFGazette.com earlier today, the embargo for Predator: Killer of Killers' social media reactions has lifted. So far, it sounds like Prey director Dan Trachtenberg has done it again with his upcoming animated anthology.

Released in 2022, Prey was considered a return to form for the struggling Predator franchise. After it proved a massive critical and viewership success for Hulu, the filmmaker's next movie, Predator: Badlands, is getting a theatrical release, and an Alien crossover looks to be somewhere on the horizon.

Killer of Killers, meanwhile, will once again debut on streaming, but if these social media verdicts are anything to go by, the movie is another win for Trachtenberg's take on the Yautja. Praised as a badass, bloody delight, it seems the movie's stunning animation has allowed the director to unleash the Predator in a way rarely seen on screen before.

Crucially for fans, all signs point to there being plenty of Easter Eggs and world-building; however, those of you who just want to see what happens when the Yautja fights a Samurai, for example, will clearly walk away happy with the violence that ensues.

Does it address Prey's cliffhanger or set the stage for Predator: Badlands? We can't say for now, but make sure you check back here later this week for our full spoiler breakdowns. 

The anthology story follows three of the fiercest warriors in human history: a Viking raider guiding her young son on a bloody quest for revenge, a ninja in feudal Japan who turns against his Samurai brother in a brutal battle for succession, and a WWII pilot who takes to the sky to investigate an otherworldly threat to the Allied cause.

However, while all these warriors are killers in their own right, they are merely prey for their new opponent: the ultimate killer of killers.

Predator: Killer of Killers is helmed by Prey and Predator: Badlands director Dan Trachtenberg, with Josh Wassung, from animation company The Third Floor, serving as co-director. The film was written by Micho Robert Rutare with a story by Trachtenberg and Rutare, based on characters created by Jim Thomas & John Thomas.

The producers are John Davis, Dan Trachtenberg, p.g.a., Marc Toberoff, Ben Rosenblatt, p.g.a., with Lawrence Gordon, James E. Thomas, John C. Thomas, and Stefan Grube as executive producers.

Predator: Killer of Killers premieres exclusively on Hulu on June 6. You can see some of the first X reactions below.

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HashTagSwagg
HashTagSwagg - 6/1/2025, 7:21 AM
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WhatIfRickJames
WhatIfRickJames - 6/1/2025, 8:19 AM
@HashTagSwagg - lololol
MakeAmericaGrea
MakeAmericaGrea - 6/1/2025, 10:27 AM
@HashTagSwagg -

Let's be civil.

@JoshWilding -

How are you doing, Josh?

What is the money from our work going towards? 🙂
DocSpock
DocSpock - 6/1/2025, 7:23 AM

I was all excited, then I saw the word animated.

Bleah.

BreakTheCode
BreakTheCode - 6/1/2025, 7:40 AM
Makes an article about critic reactions. Posts his tweet first in the article. LOL
WhatIfRickJames
WhatIfRickJames - 6/1/2025, 8:20 AM
@BreakTheCode - got to get those six figures some how
SonOfAGif
SonOfAGif - 6/1/2025, 3:23 PM
@BreakTheCode - He's a Narcissist
WhatIfRickJames
WhatIfRickJames - 6/1/2025, 8:23 AM
Predator 1, 2, Predators and Prey are my favorites. Everything else meh. Glad to see that this is also gonna be good.
JoJo1982
JoJo1982 - 6/1/2025, 8:46 AM
@WhatIfRickJames - so basically all are your favorites except for 2018 predator movie.

I feel the same
FinnishDude
FinnishDude - 6/1/2025, 8:49 AM
@JoJo1982 - He also left out the AvP movies.
Deklipz
Deklipz - 6/1/2025, 10:12 AM
@FinnishDude - There aren’t any AvP movies. There were two piles of shit that looked like shitty homemade YouTube movies that unfortunately people had to see, but they don’t count for either series.
MakeAmericaGrea
MakeAmericaGrea - 6/1/2025, 10:30 AM
@JoJo1982 -

You left out the Aliev vs. Predator duology.

I like and occasionally rewatch those.

Prey is nonsensical woke trash.
WhatIfRickJames
WhatIfRickJames - 6/1/2025, 12:53 PM
@MakeAmericaGrea -

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MakeAmericaGrea
MakeAmericaGrea - 6/1/2025, 11:45 PM
@WhatIfRickJames -

If a woman of that culture acted like her the men would have been less kind and forgiving.

Prey is lib girlboss history revisionism.
WhatIfRickJames
WhatIfRickJames - 6/2/2025, 5:32 AM
@MakeAmericaGrea - User Comment Image
WEAPONXOXOXO
WEAPONXOXOXO - 6/1/2025, 8:26 AM
You see. It doesn't take a special OPS team with enough ammunition to take down a small country to beat a PREDATOR.

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Just one dude with a sword.
MakeAmericaGrea
MakeAmericaGrea - 6/1/2025, 10:31 AM
@WEAPONXOXOXO -

Maybe.

Time will tell if one man with a sword wins against a yautja.
dragon316
dragon316 - 6/1/2025, 8:59 AM
I can understand animated this version be pretty costly if it was live action animated cgii kinda cheapens it I’ll check it out when it comes to predator prefer live action
asherman93
asherman93 - 6/1/2025, 9:06 AM
If this leads to more big budget, R-rated, dramatic animated features from Hollywood, that will be the biggest win of all.
Typhoon20
Typhoon20 - 6/1/2025, 9:40 AM
Even though most of these are youtubers/bloggers that have mid taste when it comes to film/tv there were at least 2 REAL CRITICS in here whose words got me pretty hyped. I loved Prey. Can't wait for this show.
TheVisionary25
TheVisionary25 - 6/1/2025, 9:42 AM
Sweet , glad to see the positive reactions so far!!.

While I have liked what I’ve seen , I have also been a bit dissapointed that the time periods used in this were being done in an anthology structure for this film since you could easily do 3 seperate stories with them but oh well..

It seems like the format still works as do the characters , action & such so can’t wait to see it!!.
MakeAmericaGrea
MakeAmericaGrea - 6/1/2025, 10:33 AM
I haven't started paying for Pooloo or Disney- yet, and I won't start now.

I wonder how many of the woke things the filmmakers discussed cramming into this at meetings. 🤔

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JoshWilding
JoshWilding - 6/1/2025, 10:55 AM
@MakeAmericaGrea - To answer your question (I can’t respond to that thread for some reason), you’re paying my mortgage off at a speed of knots and my wife and I just booked holidays to Orlando and Canada next year. Got a Switch 2 arriving on Thursday too, and just bought a couple of autographs for Charlie Cox’s Con appearance here next month. 👌🏻
Pathogen
Pathogen - 6/1/2025, 1:23 PM
@JoshWilding - As much as a good amount of the articles here are waste of time, or poorly written...good on you for being an entrepreneur.
McMurdo
McMurdo - 6/1/2025, 2:00 PM
@JoshWilding - Lollllllll

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