Published Apr 23, 2026, 7:00 PM EDT Taron Egerton hunts Charlize Theron through an Australian forest in a grueling survival thriller that eventually goes full horror-movie Netflix's Apex really is a Predator movie with an all-human cast Photo: Kane Skennar/Netflix Cinema has a long, loving, emotional relationship with Richard Connell’s 1924 short story “The Most Dangerous Game,” about a rich, jaded big-game hunter who lures people to his remote island and hunts them for sport. That premise is endlessly malleable and updatable, for roughly the same reason studios keep making one shark movie after another after another : Humans consider themselves apex predators, but still wonder what it would be like to be hunted. The “man is the ultimate apex predator” idea is one clear source for the title of the latest movie in this very specific subgenre.…