Predator: Killer of Killers is a short and sweet joyride through the franchise’s secret past

With Prey, director Dan Trachtenberg revitalized the Predator franchise and showed us all how wildly thrilling its central conceit could still be with just a little bit of reworking. Prey took the classic Predator story and made it feel new by focusing on the past and framing its alien characters' excursions to Earth as part of a much older deadly tradition. Expanding the Predator series with even more Prey-like narratives seemed like a no-brainer for 20th Century Studios.

Though it's a leaner, meaner feature, Hulu's Predator: Killer of Killers takes everything that worked about Prey and condenses it into short and sweet exploration of other chapters from the franchise's past. The animated anthology's Arcane-inspired visuals are gorgeously gory, and its action set pieces are incredibly sharp. Killer of Killers isn't exactly trying to reinvent the wheel, and if you've seen a Predator movie before, little of it will take you by surprise. But as a bloody amuse-bouche meant to whet our appetites before Predator: Badlands hits theaters later this year, Killer of Killers absolutely gets the job done.

Set at three different points in human history, Killer of Killers tells the familiar …

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