They sometimes wear it like irl hunters do with fur and the like. As was the case with Big Momma who wore a freshly skinned womans hide complete with hair and all which was pretty gruesome.
Other than that? I dont recall off the top of my head what they do with the skin itself. I assume they either discard it or save it to make decorations with it when they get the chance.
Skinning a victim alive was usually done so to humiliate the victim. To showcase that they were an easy kill not worth taking a trophy from them be it in the form of taking their weapons or a bone of some kind (namely the skull). So I would assume they just got rid of it more times than not.
Different moment. There are some instances that happen where the main character has hallucinations on what is going on. But the moment Im referencing with the skin is when Big Momma kidnaps who she thinks is "Ash" and takes her out to hunt. That was real.
They put it on and tuck dance while listening to Crazy Horses by Q Lazarus. They will also apply lipstick any say “Would you hunt me? I’d hunt me. I’d hunt me so hard”
they of course get rid of them because is not useful and not their goal as trophie objective. they skin bodies of unworthy preys and in a way to mark hunting territory , as intimidation tactics to put fear in the remaining prey wandering around , and to show others suppose predators that a hunting game is already occuring in that area
I'm torn. I haven't seen KoK, because it's animated, and quite frankly I'm not interested in watching it for a number of reasons, that being one of them.
So that's why I specifically said "live action films".
Having said that, it is a film, and Predator is a film based franchise.
I personally loved it. I would argue, there are 4 reasons to watch.
#1 It's the 8th Predator film.
#2 It's an animated film.
#3 It's an anthology film.
#4 Hulu original films are pretty good.
First and foremost, it had a couple of politically explicit messages that it slapped you in the face with: Feminist girl power, and the Rousseauian claptrap about the "noble savage".
Second one first: The French trappers/explorers were the "bad guys" here with zero redeeming qualities whatsoever, but that is ahistorical: The French had pretty good relations with the Native Americans at the time.
In fact, there is an entire community of people called the Metis who are the result of those good relations. Was it perfect? No. But by the same token, no where near like portrayed in the film. And certainly better than how the British treated the Native Americans.
They didn't wipe out the bison like that. Mass slaughter of the bison by European Americans didn't happen until the railroads made it economically possible, about 150 years after the events in the film.
The film makers said they went to extreme efforts to get things right, but the Comanche in 1719 weren't up in the northern Rockies, they'd migrated down to the Oklahoma panhandle, northern New Mexico, and northern Texas by then. They did originate up where the film is set, but had already moved away.
For the first point, Naru is a whiny brat. She thinks the World owes her something.
Except she's a failure when she does try. The only thing she manages to kill besides Feral at the end is a rabbit. She fails against deer. She fails against the mountain lion. She fails against the grizzly bear. And the last two both almost kill her.
She reminds me of the one kid I had on the little league team I helped coach. Always wanted to be the pitcher, but whenever we had him pitch, he couldn't throw strikes. Naru is like that: She wanted to hunt but always failed (again, except for the rabbit).
There is a scene where it's entirely plausible that she kills Feral. That's the one where she uses Adolini's miquelet pistol to head shot Feral. That was a brain shot. Feral should have either died immediately, or been mortally wounded and incapacitated by that shot, because it's a roughly .60 caliber dead soft lead ball that probably expanded to at least 3/4ths of an inch in diameter, and exited the front of Feral's head with enough force to knock his facemask off.
No way anything is living through that, at least not for long.
And Feral just shrugs it off. Dude got John Wilkes Booth'd and just walks the fuck away. Movie should have ended then and there: It's a fatal shot.
Moving on, I kind of wanted to see something like this:
"Cannot swords be turned to plowshares? Can we and all nations not live in peace? In our obsession with antagonisms of the moment, we often forget how much unites all the members of humanity. Perhaps we need some outside, universal threat to make us recognize this common bond.I occasionally think how quickly our differences worldwide would vanish if we were facing an alien threat from outside this world." -Ronald Reagan at the United Nations, 9/28/1987.
I was expecting the Comanche and the French to set aside their differences to fight against the alien. We see that in the original film where Anna helps the team once it becomes obvious what's going on.
We get hints of it in Predator 2 when Lt. Harrigan talks to King Willie.
It's there in spades in Predators, where you have humans from different backgrounds and countries working together as a team.
But nope. We have to make humans (specifically white male humans) the bad guys, even worse than the sport hunting alien who comes to Earth to kill people so he can put our skulls up on his wall.
Finally, we have the issue of Raphael Adolini's miquelet pistol. Naru retains it at the end of the film. So how does Greyback acquire it, so he can give it to Lt. Harrigan in 1997? Stupid callback with no resolution. Guess we'll just have to tune in next week, same bat-time, same bat-channel.
The rest of my criticisms are kind of nitpicky: Stuff I notice because I have knowledge that most Predator fans don't have. Doesn't really affect the story, per se, but they could have gotten it right just as easily:
Naru is "sharpening" a flint knife by rubbing a rock on it. That would dull the blade, not sharpen it (like it would with a metal blade). You sharpen stone knives with a pressure flaker, like an Ishi stick. You do grind the edge to prepare the "platform" prior to pressure flaking, but that's not what was going on there.
Sarii gets her tail caught in a leg hold trap. I trapped for a number of years back when I was younger, using leg hold traps identical to the one shown. I've never seen or heard of an animal getting caught like that.
The economics of the bison hunt for the French are untenable here. In 1719, there were plenty of bison much closer to the cities of Montreal, Quebec, etc. in French held territory from Illinois all the way down to Louisiana. No need to go all the way to the Rockies.
The guns the French were using were British Land Pattern muskets, the famous "Brown Bess" instead of French Charleville muskets, or more likely for coureur de bois, they should be armed with fusil de chasse from the Tulle arsenal.
When the French fire at Feral, the bullets spark on Feral's shield. Lead does not spark. The bullets they'd be using would be dead soft lead balls. No jackets. No steel cores.
Last one isn't really a nitpick, though: It's established canon in the live action films that hunts happen in hot weather. The only two exceptions were *NOT* hunts: Alien v. Predator: Requiem, which is a cleanup operation, and The Predator, the majority of which is not a hunt (it starts as a hunt, in a hot climate).
Before you say anything about Alien vs. Predator happening on a frozen, snowbound island, the action mostly takes place in the heated pyramid.
But here we're in the northern Rockies, and we actually see snowfall at one point, and it's a *HUNT*. Goes against established canon.
Genuinely how much of a loser do you have to be to not watch one of the best predator movies just because it’s animated?
Your opinion on anything means jackshit when you have a mindset like this. Mind you, 90% of all predator lore & world building comes from comics, KoK is the most true film to the franchise’s roots & source material. If anything, none of the live action films should be considered canon.
Do you like every single song released by your favorite musician?
I don't generally care for animated films, with some rare exceptions. Nor do I care for anthologies, again, with a few exceptions.
Put the two together, and really the only animated anthology I can think of that I like is Heavy Metal.
And even then, I have a hard time sitting through the entire thing. I end up watching the segments I like and not watching the others.
Nothing I have heard or seen about Killer of Killers makes me want to watch it. I probably will eventually, just to scratch my completionist itch, but I'm in no rush.
He’s most definitely not a predator fan lmao. Probably has never engaged with the franchise outside of the movies. He’s a larper. Good luck on the report bro.
They don't linger on it but in the first film Mac uses his machete to fish the dog tags out of what looks like a pile of guts and skin. So the short answer is they probably just dump them in a pile and leave them to rot.
The only scene of skin usage I can remember (for now) is Skinner that wore his victims' skin to pull pranks on other victims. But he was basically a "Boba Soyer" psycho freak of his kind so he is not an "culture" example.
In the earlier draft of the original Predator (which was still titled "Hunter") Dutch was meant to come to the Predator's lair. There he would've seen flayed skin hanged. So this official sourse proves that no, Predator doesn't dispose the skin. Why would he keep it?! Well, Predators were hunters, there are many ideas on what a hunter could do with skin of its quarry. Simple as that.
Something to consider: Jungle Hunter is an alien. He has alien motivations. Why would he skin some of his quarry and not others? No way to know, because the thinking process would be alien to us.
All we can know is what we infer from his behavior. But even that might be wrong or be affected by circumstances we don't recognize.
One of my biggest criticisms of Badlands is that we get more of an insight into Predator culture, and it's disappointingly human. I prefer not knowing, instead of knowing Yautja Prime is basically ancient Laconia in space.
They've lost too much of the mystery and, well, "alien-ness" that makes than intriguing antagonists. And they are too alien to be an engaging anti-hero protagonist like Richard B. Riddick.
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u/Keebker 1d ago
Have you ever eaten pork rinds