How Many Predator Movies Are There? All 9 Films

There are nine Predator movies as of November 2026, made up of five main films and four spin-offs. Online counts swing between eight and nine, with eight running through Predator: Killer of Killers and nine adding Predator: Badlands, both of which arrived in 2025. We count every feature film built around the Yautja, the hunter species introduced in 1987, whether it opened in theaters or premiered on Hulu. Shorts and TV specials are left out of the count and appear only as context lines in the predator movies in order guide. Every film below links to its own page, and the full set sits on the predator movies hub.

The main saga has five entries, running from 1987 to 2025. Predator 1987 was directed by John McTiernan and stars Arnold Schwarzenegger as Major Alan "Dutch" Schaefer, who leads a mercenary team into a Central American jungle where something is already hunting them. It cost $15 million and took about $98 million worldwide, according to Box Office Mojo. Shane Black, who later directed the fourth film, also appears in it as Rick Hawkins.

Predator 2 (1990), directed by Stephen Hopkins, swaps the jungle for a Los Angeles heat wave in 1997, with Danny Glover as Lieutenant Mike Harrigan and Gary Busey as the federal agent who shuts him out. Predators 2010 was directed by Nimród Antal and drops Adrien Brody's Royce and seven other strangers onto a hunting ground that turns out not to be Earth.

The Predator 2018 was directed by Shane Black and begins when a Predator ship crashes to Earth and army sniper Quinn McKenna sees it happen. Predator Badlands (2025), directed by Dan Trachtenberg, follows Dek, a young Yautja cast out by his father, and Thia, a damaged synthetic played by Elle Fanning, across the deadly planet Genna.

The four spin-offs are Prey, Predator: Killer of Killers and the two Alien vs. Predator crossovers. Prey Predator (2022), directed by Dan Trachtenberg, is set in 1719 on the Great Plains and stars Amber Midthunder as Naru, a young Comanche healer who wants to be taken seriously as a hunter. It premiered on Hulu on August 5, 2022, according to TheWrap, and Box Office Mojo lists no gross for it.

Predator Killer of Killers (2025) is an animated anthology of 85 minutes, also directed by Trachtenberg. It opens in the year 841 with the Viking warrior Ursa, then moves through two more eras, and it reached Hulu on June 6, 2025, according to 20th Century Studios.

The two crossovers bring the Yautja and the xenomorphs together. Alien vs Predator 2004, directed by Paul W. S. Anderson, follows a team gathered by the billionaire Charles Bishop Weyland, including Sanaa Lathan's guide Alexa Woods, to a buried pyramid beneath Bouvet Island, and it took about $177 million worldwide on a $60 million budget, according to Box Office Mojo. AVP Requiem (2007), directed by Colin and Greg Strause, moves the fight to the small town of Gunnison, Colorado, and made about $130 million worldwide.

The count changes because sites disagree on two things: whether a Hulu premiere is a movie, and whether a crossover belongs to the Predator series or the Alien series. In my opinion, the fairest rule is the one used here, which counts any feature film where the Yautja is a main threat, and it could be argued that this is the only rule that does not need an exception. Drop the two Hulu films and the total falls to seven. Drop the crossovers as well and you are back to the five main films.

The production history backs the wider count. Prey cost $65 million and Killer of Killers $50 million, which is far above the $15 million that Predator (1987) cost, and Badlands cost $105 million. Those are studio budgets for features, not side projects. The money also moved in an unexpected direction: Predator 2 spent $35 million and took about $57 million worldwide, while the 1987 original took about $98 million. Badlands, at about $185 million worldwide according to Box Office Mojo, now sits above the $177 million of the 2004 crossover and the $161 million of The Predator.

There is also a thread of people running through the saga. Kevin Peter Hall wore the creature suit in both Predator (1987) and Predator 2, and Elpidia Carrillo played Anna in both. Shane Black went from playing Hawkins in 1987 to directing The Predator in 2018. Louis Ozawa appears as Hanzo in Predators and returns as the voice of Kenji and Kiyoshi in Killer of Killers. Those links are why I treat the spin-offs as part of one saga rather than a separate shelf.

Two films combine both series: AVP: Alien vs. Predator and Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem. Counting the Alien films themselves is a separate job, because that series keeps its own list of titles. The crossover pages sit under alien vs predator, and Predator: Badlands adds a smaller link of its own, since Thia is built by the Weyland-Yutani corporation and Alison Wright is credited as the voice of MU/TH/UR.

The newest Predator movie is Predator: Badlands, released in the US and UK on November 7, 2025 and in Australia on November 6, 2025. It had a $40 million domestic opening, according to Box Office Mojo, and it has taken about $185 million worldwide on a $105 million budget. People often mix it up with Killer of Killers, which came five months earlier in June 2025 and streamed on Hulu rather than playing in theaters. In the US, Badlands is also on Hulu, according to TMDB watch data, and the where to watch Predator page lists each country.

No third Alien vs. Predator film has been announced, and no next Predator film has a title, cast or date. ComicBook.com reported in February 2026 that Prey 2, an Alien crossover and a Killer of Killers follow-up are all unconfirmed. Gizmodo reported in November 2025 that Trachtenberg has "a pretty good idea of where things could go" but has confirmed nothing, and on September 28, 2026 it reported that he is moving to an untitled Disney project inspired by Sleeping Beauty. All of that is unconfirmed talk, and the status of any new film is tracked on the new predator movie page.

If you are about to start the series, the release order and the chronological order differ quite a lot (Killer of Killers sits first by story date, for example), so open predator movies in order before you press play.