With the release of Predator: Badlands (you can read Chris Bumbray’s review HERE), we now have (when you count the crossovers with the Alien franchise) nine Predator feature films to kick back and watch – and with that many movies to choose from, we figured this was the perfect time to put together a list of the Predator Movies Ranked! Here they are, all nine of them, listed from Worst to Best:

ALIENS VS. PREDATOR: REQUIEM (2007)

Back in the day, we thought humans never crossed paths with xenomorphs until the events of Alien and that if the creatures ever reached Earth, it would be a doomsday scenario. Then AVP: Alien vs. Predator brought the titular conflict to Earth in the year 2004, and even though the story said humans had been interacting with xenomorphs for thousands of years, at least the modern day action took place in a remote location. Scripted by Shane Salerno and directed by visual effects artists the Brothers Strause, the sequel Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem set out to really rock our world by dropping the xenomorphs into middle America. The small town of Gunnison, Colorado, to be exact. Picking up where AVP left off, with the birth of a xenomorph/Predator hybrid called the Predalien and the space ship crash that followed, AVPR has xenomorphs running loose in the countryside, tormenting regular Americans. Including the most unexpected character to ever appear in one of these movies: a bullied pizza boy. The Predators in the first AVP were inexperienced, but the one in this movie (played by AVP’s Ian Whyte) is a hardened warrior who’s coming in to kick some ass, save the day, and clean up the problem. It’s one of the only great things about this film, and some moments with this Predator feel a lot like moments with the ones from the first two movies. Everything around it ranges from bland to awful, from the imagery that’s often too dark to see and uninteresting characters to an atrocious sequence involving the Predalien pumping “bellybursters” into pregnant women in a maternity ward. The movie is an appalling mess.

THE PREDATOR (2018)

Bringing Predator cast member (and Lethal Weapon screenwriter) Shane Black back to write and direct a new sequel sounded like the best idea ever, and then Black sweetened the deal by having his The Monster Squad collaborator Fred Dekker write the script with him. Unfortunately, the wild ideas and goofball tone Black and Dekker brought to their film just didn’t work for the franchise. There’s a Predator on the run (Brian A. Prince) that crash-lands on Earth, where it’s captured by the government and its gear ends up in the hands of U.S. Army Ranger sniper Quinn McKenna (Boyd Holbrook), who inadvertently passes it over to his autistic son Rory (Jacob Tremblay). There’s also an Upgrade Predator (Kyle Strauts doing mo-cap for a CGI monstrosity) that has been juicing with DNA harvested from its prey and enhancing itself with tech implants, and it wants cargo the other Predator had on its ship. It also takes an interest in Rory because it sees his autism as an advancement in human evolution. Aided by an evolutionary biologist (Olivia Munn) and a group of soldiers dealing with PTSD (Trevante Rhodes, Keegan-Michael Key, Thomas Jane, Alfie Allen, August Aguilera), McKenna fights to keep his kid safe from Predators and government agents (headed by Sterling K. Brown). The cast is solid, the characters are fun and likeable, and there’s some cool action. But The Predator is an odd, silly movie, and it’s packed with questionable decisions. Some were there from the start, as Black and Dekker didn’t seem to understand the Predators, and some were the result of reshoots that changed the third act.

AVP: ALIEN VS. PREDATOR (2004)

The same year fans spotted the Easter egg of an alien xenomorph skull on the trophy wall in the hunter’s space ship in Predator 2, Dark Horse Comics published the first Aliens vs. Predator comic book series. Fans wanted to see this idea brought to the screen, but while multiple comic books, video games, and novels explored the crossover concept (it was a 1994 AVP novel by Steve Perry that named the Predator species Yautja), a cinematic take on it was stuck in development hell. And when writer/director Paul W.S. Anderson and co-writer Shane Salerno finally gave us an AVP movie, it was nothing like the one fans had been imagining. Who ever expected the story to take place on modern day Earth, in an underground pyramid on an island off the coast of Antarctica? That’s where Anderson and Salerno set it while revealing that the Predators were Ancient Aliens that helped humanity get rolling – and for thousands of years they’ve been bringing xenomorphs to Earth for a rite of passage ritual that takes place every one hundred years. When the pyramid fires up for the 2004 edition, Weyland Corporation founder Charles Bishop Weyland (Lance Henriksen) assembles a team of scientists and mercenaries (plus Sanaa Lathan as heroine Lex Woods) to check it out; they arrive just in time to get caught up in battle. We thought an AVP movie would be epic but confined settings combined with bland characters make this one a B-level creature feature.

PREDATOR: BADLANDS (2025)

For decades writers of Predator comic books have been building out Yautja lore; however little made it into films until now under director Dan Trachtenberg’s guidance who has incorporated some extended lore into his work. “Yautja” is now film-confirmed canon along with a developed language for this alien species. Trachtenberg’s third addition gives us a unique take on Predator films; here we have an epic sci-fi adventure where a Predator is protagonist Dek (played by Dimitrius Schuster-Koloamatangi), marked for death by his father who hunts on Genna for a creature called Kalisk alongside Thia (Elle Fanning), a damaged but chatty Weyland-Yutani synth who aids him through dangerous territory without any human presence but plenty of action against alien creatures.

PREDATOR: KILLER OF KILLERS (2025)

This animated anthology set in various historical contexts features three different stories written by Micho Robert Rutare showcasing Predators battling Vikings or samurai while also including aerial fights during World War II—each segment introduces lead characters before showing them facing off against Predators without prolonged build-ups or filler material.

PREY (2022)

A lot of viewers enjoyed Predators, but it still took eight years for The Predator. Thankfully director Dan Trachtenberg was already getting Prey moving while The Predator was being produced! This film delivers back-to-basics storytelling set in1719 featuring Naru played by Amber Midthunder—a young Comanche woman trained as a healer who dreams of becoming a great hunter after encountering her first hunt when a Predator drops onto Great Plains.

PREDATORS(2010)

In1996 ,Robert Rodriguez wrotea really badPredators sequel scriptthatbrought backArnoldSchwarzenegger’scharacterfromthefirstfilmbut disregardedcharacter continuity,taking himonafuturistic interplanetary adventureinvolvingmulti-speciesgladiatorial gamesrunbythePredators–andthescriptgotthem allwrongtoo.So thatprojectwaswisely shelvedforoveradecadeuntilthestudiodecidedtocirclebackandhaveRodriguezproduceanewPredatormovie . Thankfully,the scriptwasgivenacompleteoverhaulbyAlexLitvakandMichaelFinch,sothestorydirectedbyNimrodAntalbroughttothescreenwasquitedifferentfromwhatRodriguezoriginally wrote.Andmuchbetter.Thefilmispackedwithnodstothefirstmovieandtellsofa groupofpeoplewhohaveconfirmedkills(they’remercenaries,soldiers ,criminals,etc.)beingabductedanddroppedontoanalienplanetthePredatorsuseasagamingpreserve.AdrienBrody,AliceBraga ,TopherGrace,WaltonGoggins,DannyTrejo,OlegTaktarov,MahershalaAli,LouisOzawaChangchien,andLaurenceFishburnehavetofightfortheirliveswhilebeingtrackedbyatriodo“SuperPredators”playedbytwoactors,BrianSteeleandCareyJonesandtheir“falcon”and“dogs.”A fourthPredator,a“ClassicPredator”playedbyDerekMears,isalsointhemix,andwelearnthattheClassicPredatorshaveabloodfeudwiththeSuperPredators.Not surewhythefilmmakersfeltthatwasnecessary,butokay,we’llgoalongwithit.Predators isafinesequelandwasastrongreturntoformaftertheletdownofthe AVP movies.