Predators

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Predators

2025

1h 36m

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To Catch a Predator was a popular television show designed to hunt down child predators and lure them to a film set, where they would be interviewed and eventually arrested. PREDATORS is a chilling, thought-provoking exploration of the scintillating rise and staggering fall of the show, and the world it helped create.

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A searing and intellectually rigorous documentary, Predators examines the motives behind public justice to reveal the disturbing ethical consequences of turning real life trauma into spectacle.

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Christy Lemire

FilmWeek (LAist)

Dec 31

This is so eye-opening and caused me to really think differently about this show.

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Sophie Gilbert

The Atlantic

Dec 29

For how it illuminates a truly strange and callous moment in culture, it’s one of the best documentaries of the year.

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Megan Nolan

New Statesman

Nov 18

A revelatory and brilliant film.

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Jared Mobarak

Hey, Have You Seen ...?

Mar 12

7/10

It pulls the curtain on the artifice and shows the unforgivable cost to what Hansen did and how [he was] allowed to do it. This subject is much bigger than [that], though, so the film plays like more of a table-turned "gotcha" moment of its own.

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Joe Lipsett

Murder Made Fiction Podcast - Bloody Disgusting

Feb 23

4/5

A fine tuned, extremely relevant dissection of the purported good that shows such as To Catch A Predator claim to offer. The doc is extremely self-reflexive about its own goals, which is a welcome change from other true crime texts

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Ian Bunting

Daily Record (UK)

Jan 17

Predators is as gripping as its subject matter - with no easy answers or ideologies thrust upon you - and whether you watched To Catch A Predator or not, it will grab your attention throughout.

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Erik

Oct 22

Good but a little self-important at the end and never really covered the deterrence angle

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Ed

Sep 29

It fills one in on what happened to the show To Catch a Predator. A few moments drag a bit too long but overall an opportunity to understand the dynamics of show.

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Andreas G

@Tomatonatorthethird 4d

I feel like if edp445 and Dr disrespect ever watched this, their eyes would open in amazement

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Maria K

@RT87028900 6d

If anything is eye opening to you in this documentary, you need to do a lot of personal growth. The most disturbing and disgusting "predator" is mr. Omit himself in his desire to protect molesters.

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Honour H

@RT76281691 Aug 13

Self-important mess. An attempt to add nuance to a situation without any. The main angle of this documentary is to basically suggest that it was wrong for the predators involved in TCAP to have had a true account of the thing that they said themselves online to a child, itself be published online. They believe it to be in appropriate for the truth to be available publicly on a censorship free internet. Very odd take for a documentary of this length to explore, whilst never exploring any countering opinions. The ending shows that the documentary maker clearly thought they had some kind of groundbreaking take as they attempted a chilling outro scene that reflected the same camera setup as TCAP used back in the day.. but seeing this at the end of one and a half hours of people standing up for the privacy of people who showed up to ruin a child’s life in the first place honestly just made me sigh. I regret wasting my time on this.

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Yash B

@yashbansal Aug 10

"Predators" is an undeniably interesting documentary. I do feel it raises more questions than answers, but it is a fascinating watch about one of the strangest pop culture moments of all time. The movie is split into three parts, and I think the middle portion was the least interesting, but I still think it is a well-rounded documentary. Overall, this is a very solid documentary that I watched due to my excitement for the upcoming A24 film with Robert Pattinson, and now I am really curious how they approach it.

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Synopsis

To Catch a Predator was a popular television show designed to hunt down child predators and lure them to a film set, where they would be interviewed and eventually arrested. PREDATORS is a chilling, thought-provoking exploration of the scintillating rise and staggering fall of the show, and the world it helped create.

Director: David Osit
Producer: Jamie Gonçalves, Kellen Quinn, David Osit
Distributor: MTV Documentary Films
Production Co: Sweet Relief Productions
Genre: Documentary
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Sep 19, 2025, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Dec 8, 2025
Runtime: 1h 36m

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