I join CP24 to talk about the big movies hitting theatres this week including the bullet ballet of “Ballerina,” fishy thriller “Dangerous Animals,” the horror comedy “I Don’t Understand You,” the animated “Predator: Killer of Killers” and the exorcism flick “The Ritual.”
Watch the whole thing HERE!
I sit in on the CFRA Ottawa morning show with host Bill Carroll to talk about the new movies coming to theatres including the bullet ballet of “Ballerina,” fishy thriller “Dangerous Animals,” the horror comedy “I Don’t Understand You,” the animated “Predator: Killer of Killers” and the exorcism flick “The Ritual.”
Listen to the whole thing HERE!
SYNOPSIS: In “Predator: Killer of Killers,” a new animated-science-fiction-action-horror-anthology film for adults, now streaming on Disney+, pits the relentless alien killing machine against three fierce human warriors—a Viking our for revenge, a ninja from feudal Japan and a WWII pilot. “There’s only one way to kill it. We must fight together.”
CAST: Lindsay LaVanchy, Louis Ozawa Changchien, Rick Gonzalez, Michael Biehn. Directed by Dan Trachtenberg.
REVIEW: If the animated “Predator: Killer of Killers” is any indication, fans are in for a bloody good time this November when “Predator: Badlands” hits theatres. Think of this animated anthology film is an amuse bouche, dipped in gore, to whet your appetite for the main event.
The premise is simple, like a riff on the schoolyard game of Who Would Win? Remember that? Who would win in a fight, Dracula or Frankenstein? Yeti or Bigfoot?
In this case “Predator: Killer of Killers” jumps through history to coral a trio of warriors willing to do battle with the ultimate killing machine.
The first third sees a Viking raider guiding her young son on a bloody quest for revenge against the alien. Part two is set against the backdrop of feudal Japan and a battle for succession, while part three sees a WWII pilot attempt to save the Allied cause from the existential, extraterrestrial threat.
Individually, they are no match for the otherworldly menace, but together they might have a chance. Perhaps this should have been called “Predator: There Is No ‘I’ in Team.”
It should be noted that just because something is on Disney+, that doesn’t mean it’s for the whole family. This is a grisly, high-octane movie that doesn’t spare the plasma; one that combines 2D and 3D animation techniques filtered through a “Mortal Combat” lens. The result is a thing of terrible beauty that blends realism with cartoon animation to brutal effect.
Directed by Dan Trachtenberg, whose “Prey” revitalized the franchise, and whose upcoming “Predator: Badlands” is hotly anticipated, “Predator: Killer of Killers” isn’t a sequel or a prequel, at least not in any way I could decipher, it’s simply a fearsome adventure set within the Predator Universe.
