The Predator franchise has found exciting new life in the last few years, largely thanks to Dan Trachtenberg. The filmmaker’s 2022 foray into the world of the galactic hunter, Prey, sparked fresh excitement for a series that hadn’t seen critical success in ages. Flash-forward to 2025, and we had not one but two new Predator movies: Predator: Killer of Killers and Predator: Badlands. Both have been well-received, with Badlands seeing the largest opening weekend at the box office for any film in the series. Beloved as the franchise is, it may surprise you that Predator was not the first alien hunter horror film. That honor belongs to Without Warning.

Though quite different from what John McTiernan would unleash in 1987 with Predator, Greydon Clark’s Without Warning laid...