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Predator: Badlands is almost here, and the studio\u2019s pulling out all the stops to hype up the release, and their latest promotional idea is pure gold. The studio is dressing up as Predators, Yautja warriors, and giving fans a good scare as they walk into theaters.<\/p>\n
The clip has blown up online, racking up hundreds of thousands of likes and comments in no time. <\/strong>It shows a Predator standing perfectly still, pretending to be a statue. However, the second people walk past, it jumps to life and scares the hell out of them.<\/p>\n The reactions are priceless. Dozens of moviegoers got spooked, turning the whole thing into a hilarious viral moment. Fans flooded the comments, with one writing, \u201cThat towering Predator lurking by the ferns must have given those moviegoers quite the jump!\u201d Another joking, \u201cLmao this shit is scary!\u201d<\/p>\n One fan joked, \u201cThat was one of my childhood traumas, I was terrified of it!\u201d while another gave props to the marketing team, saying, \u201cThat\u2019s how you do advertising!\u201d<\/p>\n But not everyone was on board. Some fans called the stunt a bit much, with one commenting<\/a>, \u201cPublic scares like this might seem fun, but surprise fear inside a theater can easily cross boundaries. People go to enjoy a movie, not experience real panic or confusion in the dark.\u0964 Safety and consent matter, even in horror-themed promotions. Entertainment shouldn\u2019t depend on making people feel genuinely unsafe.\u201d<\/p>\n Fans online quickly clapped back at him, accusing him of not even writing his own take. One user said, \u201cDo you have any thoughts of your own or do you ask AI to generate all of your bait-y talking points?\u201d<\/p>\n Predator: Badlands releases in theaters worldwide on November 7, 2025. The movie is set on a remote planet in the future and follows Dek, a young Yautja warrior portrayed by Dimitrius Schuster-Koloamatangi, who has been expelled from his clan.<\/p>\n Originally reported by Rishabh Shandilya on <\/em>Mandatory.com<\/em><\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n The post This Predator: Badlands prank on moviegoers is hilarious<\/a> appeared first on Mandatory<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Predator: Badlands is almost here, and the studio\u2019s pulling out all the stops to hype up the release, and their latest promotional idea is pure gold. The studio is dressing up as Predators, Yautja warriors, and giving fans a good scare as they walk into theaters. This Predator: Badlands prank on moviegoers is hilarious The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2133976,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25172],"tags":[346422,406213],"class_list":["post-2133975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-badlands","tag-moviegoers"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Badlands-prank-on-moviegoers-is-hilarious.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2133975","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2133975"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2133975\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2133977,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2133975\/revisions\/2133977"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2133976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2133975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2133975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2133975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}