Prey (2022 Film) - Wikipedia

In 1719 in the Great Plains, Naru, a young Comanche woman trained as a healer, dreams of becoming a great hunter like her brother, Taabe. While tracking deer, she witnesses strange lights in the sky, which she believes to be a Thunderbird, and a sign that she is ready to become a hunter. However, they are actually from a Predator dropship.

A member of the tribe, named Puhi, is taken by a lion and Naru uses her tracking skills to assist a search party, led by Taabe. The search party finds Puhi alive, but wounded. All members, except for Taabe, Naru, and Paake, leave to take him back to the tribe. The three set a trap for the lion, but it kills Paake. Naru faces off with the lion, but is knocked unconscious after being distracted by strange sounds and lights in the distance.

Naru awakens at home, having been carried back by Taabe. He later returns to the village after killing the lion, earning him the title of War Chief. Convinced that there is a greater threat in the woods, Naru departs with her dog, Sarii. She stumbles into a bog pit and narrowly escapes, before being attacked by a grizzly bear. She is able to escape after it is attacked and killed by the Predator. Shortly after, she runs into a group of Comanche, sent to find her. The Predator, which Naru calls a "Mupitsi"[a] ambushes and kills the men. While running away, she is caught in a foothold trap.

French voyageurs, who had set the trap, find Naru, and cage her and Sarii. Their interpreter, Raphael Adolini, questions Naru about the Predator, whom the Frenchmen have encountered before. When she refuses to talk, the lead voyageur reveals that Taabe is also their captive. The next morning, the Frenchmen use both siblings as bait for the Predator, which they intend to capture. The Predator ignores Taabe and Naru and kills most of the Frenchmen. Freeing themselves during the fight, Taabe and Naru split up to get horses, and Sarii, respectively. Naru rescues Sarii from the French camp and sends him to find Taabe. Raphael, having dragged himself back to the camp, teaches Naru how to use his flintlock pistol[b] in exchange for treatment of his severed leg. As part of the treatment, Naru gives him herbs that have the side effect of reducing his body heat. The Predator arrives and tracks the blood from Raphael's leg, but does not see Raphael, leading Naru to realize that his reduced heat must have made him invisible to the Predator. The Predator then kills Raphael after accidentally stepping on him. Sarii returns with Taabe, who fights the Predator on horseback. During the fight, Naru notices that the Predator's spears are aimed using its mask. Although able to wound it several times, Taabe is killed by the Predator, but not before giving Naru time to escape.

Naru finds the surviving lead voyageur and uses him as bait for the Predator. After consuming the herbs to hide her body heat, she ambushes it, using Raphael's pistol, and removes its mask. Stealing the device, she positions it to face the bog in which she had previously been caught. Naru battles the Predator and lures it into the bog, where it becomes mired. It fires the spear gun at Naru and the mask guides the projectile back into its head, killing it. Naru severs its head and paints her face with its glowing green blood. She returns with its head to her village, where she is declared the new War Chief. Naru informs her tribe that it is time for them to move.

During the credits, the narrative is summarized in a series of ledger art paintings that ends with a depiction of three Predator vessels descending towards the tribe.[c]