AVP Requiem (2007): Cast, Plot, Hybrid Creature and Ending Explained

AVP Requiem opens on a Predator ship carrying the body of a dead hunter and a cargo of captured facehuggers. A hybrid creature, born from a Predator and an Alien and commonly called the Predalien, hatches aboard and kills the crew, and the ship crashes near the small town of Gunnison, Colorado.

The hybrid and the facehuggers slip into the woods and the sewers, and they begin infecting locals, among them a hunter and his son and some homeless people. Far away, a veteran Predator receives the ship's distress signal and travels to Earth to clean up the mess, a little like a plumber turning up on Christmas night to fix a flood he did not cause.

While the creatures spread, the film introduces the humans who will be caught in the middle. Ex-convict Dallas Howard returns home to his brother Ricky, and soldier Kelly O'Brien comes back to her family. If you want the full run of events, the next section covers it with spoilers, and the Predator movies in order page shows where Requiem sits against the rest of the saga.

After the crash, the hybrid and its facehuggers spread through Gunnison and implant embryos in several residents. The veteran Predator arrives, destroys the wreck and removes evidence of the early victims, then tracks the creatures through the sewers and into a power plant. His weapon fire knocks out power for the whole town, and in the dark the Aliens attack a group of teenagers at the school pool. They also kill Kelly's husband Tim, while Kelly escapes with her daughter Molly.

Dallas, Ricky, Kelly and other survivors meet at a sporting goods store and arm themselves. The Predator keeps hunting and uses Dallas as bait at one point, and the National Guard reinforcements are wiped out. The Colonel in charge then announces a helicopter evacuation from the hospital roof, so the survivors head there, only to find the hybrid building a hive inside the building.

A chaotic fight breaks out in which the Predator loses much of his gear and Jesse is killed by accident. Ricky is injured, and Dallas takes the Predator's plasma pistol. Dallas, Ricky, Kelly and Molly flee by helicopter, and below them the Predator and the hybrid fatally wound each other. The military drops a tactical nuclear bomb on the town to destroy the outbreak. The blast brings the helicopter down, but troops find and rescue the survivors.

AVP Requiem opened in US theaters on December 25, 2007, reached Australia on December 26, 2007 and arrived in the UK on January 18, 2008, according to Box Office Mojo and TMDB.

The US certification is R, the UK certification is 15 and the Australian certification is MA 15+. In theaters it took about $41.8 million domestically and $88.5 million internationally, for about $130.3 million worldwide according to Box Office Mojo, on a $40 million budget reported by The Numbers. For the series context, see the Predator box office page.

On where to watch AVP Requiem, availability as of November 3, 2026 (JustWatch via TMDB) is as follows. In the US it streams with a subscription on YouTube TV and FXNow, and it can be rented or bought on Amazon Video, Apple TV Store, Google Play Movies, YouTube and Fandango At Home. In the UK it streams on Disney Plus and can be rented or bought on Apple TV Store, Rakuten TV, Amazon Video, Sky Store and YouTube. In Australia it streams on Disney Plus and can be bought on Apple TV Store, Amazon Video and YouTube. The full table lives on where to watch Predator.

In the AVP Requiem ending, the military nukes Gunnison, which kills both the Predator and the hybrid creature, and the survivors live because troops find them after the helicopter crash. Dallas, Ricky, Kelly and Molly all get out, but the town does not.

The last scene is the one that matters for the larger saga. Colonel Stevens hands the Predator's plasma pistol, the weapon Dallas took during the hospital fight, over to Ms. Yutani, a representative of the Yutani corporation. In my opinion, that handoff is the real final beat of the film, because it says the weapon will be studied rather than buried. A synthetic made by the Weyland-Yutani corporation, Thia, appears in Predator: Badlands (2025), so it could be argued that Requiem planted a thread the series later picked up again.

As for the creature fight, the hybrid and the Predator fatally wound each other below the helicopter, so neither wins. I would call that the film's most honest choice, since the Predalien had already wiped out the crew of the Predator ship in the opening. Perhaps the title is the point: a requiem is a mass for the dead, and by the credits there is a lot of Colorado to mourn.

The nuclear strike also separates Requiem from the other films where a Predator hunts humans. In Predator (1987), Dutch Schaefer's team is whittled down in a jungle, and the cost is a squad. In Predator 2, the Los Angeles heat wave and a federal task force led by Peter Keyes give the military a seat at the table, but the city survives. Requiem pushes the same idea further, with Colonel Stevens ordering the destruction of a whole town to contain the outbreak, so the human cost is a community rather than a unit.

The set pieces show the same escalation. The school pool attack, the blackout caused by the Predator's weapon fire at the power plant and the hive in the hospital all happen in places where ordinary people live, which is a different fear from the Antarctic expedition of the first crossover. The Brothers Strause came from visual effects at Hydraulx, according to Variety, and it is fair to read the finale, with a helicopter dropping out of a mushroom cloud sky, as the work of directors thinking in spectacle first. That being said, the Yutani handoff gives the spectacle a point, and it is the one moment where Requiem looks beyond its own town.

AVP Requiem is set in Gunnison, Colorado, a small town where the crashed Predator ship, the sewers, the power plant, the school pool, the sporting goods store and the hospital roof all play a part. The story closes when a tactical nuclear bomb destroys the town.

The Strause brothers, Colin and Greg, ran the effects house Hydraulx before they directed AVP Requiem, and this was their first feature as directors.

The film was a 20th Century Fox release, presented by John Davis's Brandywine production company in association with Dune Entertainment.

Shane Salerno wrote the screenplay, with story credit to Dan O'Bannon, Ronald Shusett, Jim Thomas and John Thomas for the characters.

Producers David Giler and Walter Hill, who worked on the Alien films, are credited alongside John Davis.

The budget was $40 million, and the worldwide gross came to about $130.3 million, according to Box Office Mojo.

Ian Whyte, credited as Predator here, also plays Scar in the first crossover.

The Yutani corporation named in the final scene shares its name with the Weyland-Yutani corporation that built Thia in Predator: Badlands (2025).