Prey goofs

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This article covers all the known goofs in the 2022 film Prey.

Continuity[]

When the Feral Predator is observing the wolf hunting, he is watching from the rigth side of the wolf. When he kicks it away from the hare, he is from the left side of the canid.

When Naru is using one of the fur traders as bait, the Predator's weapon had previously cut his right leg off above the knee. From the Predator's heat vision point of view, he is on stomach, and his right leg and foot are there but his left leg isn't.

In one scene Big Beard appears without his right leg. Later that leg appears on the screen and seen from the opposite side, it is a left leg.

Taabe is sliced from upper left arm to lower right arm by his captors. When he fights the Feral Predator he has no open wound.

When Taabe is stabbed by the Predator in front of Naru there is blood splatter across the right side of her face. In the next few shots there is no additional blood splatter. A few shots later, she once again has the blood splatter all across the right side of her face.

In one scene the unstrung bow at Naru's right shoulder disappears when she's seen from behind.

The name plate on the 1715 Raphael Adolini gun has a different shape than the one in Predator 2.

Naru is seen armed with a bow and tomahawk by the Feral Predator, who clearly sees her carrying weapons, using them to hunt a mountain lion and a bear, and even holding her tomahawk in a threatening manner at him after it kills several of her tribe. Yet it doesn't consider her a threat, even though it's been established that the Yautja will engage with whoever is holding weapons or anything resembling a weapon. The excuse that this was the first time a Predator had came to Earth and didn't consider women like Naru to be a threat like men doesn't hold since again, if it sees anything doing something resembling threatening behavior the various predatory animals that he kills througt the film, a Predator considers them worthy sport.

In real history, in 1719, the Comanche Nation primarily lived in modern day Texas, at that time encroached on by Spain, not the Northern Great Plains (they could be found also in eastern New Mexico and southern Kansas). Also the Comanche only transitioned to a nomadic horse culture after moving north into Colorado in the 1830s.

The movie was shot mainly in the wet Boreal forests of Western Alberta near Calgary, on the outskirts of the Rocky Mountains. This is about 1000 miles north of where the Comanche Nation lives and doesn't resemble the dry Great Plains. Grasslands are only shown around the Comanche camp, while almost all panorama shots show forested hills and the majority of the film takes place in the forests.

In the real 1719 French voyageurs would not have gotten as far west as the Great Plains. The first reported contact was 1739 about two French brothers. They also would have been fur traders, not trappers.

The film shows large scale bison slaughter by the fur traders, which makes that scene approximately 150 years too early. It wasn't until the mid-19th century, in the 1870s, that large scale bison eradications occurred by settlers and the military.

The film also depicts a conflict between a French expedition and the Comanche when, at the time, their only real conflict would be against the Spanish trying to expand into their territory and later on with the United States during their own expansion. The French in general didn't have a lot of direct interaction with the Comanche, with most of their influence being felt through French-aligned tribes like the Osage and the Pawnee, either through trade or conflict.

In the film the mountain lion is heard roaring. In reality mountain lions produces screams-like grolws, more resembling cats' sounds.

Despite the presence of countless skinned buffalos, there are no scavenger animals feasting on their corpses.

One of the white men hobbles back to camp with his lower leg completely severed. He would had bled out and died long before making it there. Even if the Predator's weapon stopped the bleeding while embedded in the wound, once Naru removed it there would be nothing stopping the bleeding and he would have died then.

Raphael Adolini plays dead and the Predator cannot see him because Naru gave him the flower that lowers his body temperature. If she is giving him hypothermia, that would sets his body's temperature drops below 95° F (35° C). The body temperature would need to be well below that in order to make him invisible to the Predator. Naru later takes the medicine herself to battle the Predator without it being able to see her. Again, if she is having the same symptoms of hypothermia (which include shivering, slurred speech, shallow breathing, weak pulse, lack of coordination, drowsiness, confusion, and loss of consciousness) she would not be able to engage in combat.

Naru rams a knife through the chin of a trapper and pokes it out the top of their head, pushing the blade through bone and muscle without any effort whatsoever.

During Taabe's war chief ceremony, one of the Tribesmen standing by the fire, to the left, briefly looks directly into the camera.

Shortly after Wasape ties Naru's wrists together, the group encounters the Predator for the first time. During the fight, Naru scrambles to Wasape's body to recover her tomahawk and to cut herself loose. When Naru picks up the tomahawk, she has her wrists together, but they are no longer tied. Naru then motions as if to slice through the rope, despite there is no rope in place.

When Naru floats down the river immediately after the bear attack, there is clearly a metal triangle mile marker post on the river bank in the distance on right.