Predator 6: Badlands (2025) takes the legendary alien franchise into a savage new frontier—an unforgiving post-apocalyptic wasteland where the rules of civilization are long forgotten, and survival belongs to the fittest killer. Directed by Dan Trachtenberg (Prey), this next evolution of the Predator saga blends gritty survivalism, sci-fi horror, and Western brutality.

Set decades after Earth’s ecological collapse, Badlands follows a group of hardened survivors, warlords, and ex-soldiers eking out life in the desert ruins of former cities. But their blood-soaked world is about to change when a Yautja hunting party descends from orbit—not to study, but to cleanse. Among the prey is Kael (Boyd Holbrook), a disillusioned tracker with a violent past, and Rae (Kaitlyn Dever), a young scavenger who knows the terrain better than anyone alive.

With brutal practical effects, heat-vision hunts, and one-on-one battles against cloaked monstrosities, Badlands revives the franchise’s primal fear and adds a new layer of desperation—where even the monsters underestimate what humans will do to survive.