The Predator tackles Santa and his reindeer in Holiday Special short

By Kevin Fraser

Posted 7 years ago

If you take your holidays with a sprinkling of blood and guts, well, THE PREDATOR's stop-motion animated Holiday Special might just be your cup of cocoa. To celebrate the recent home-media release of the Shane Black film, 20th Century Fox have released a fun short animated by the folks at Stoopid Buddy Stoodios (the folks behind Robot Chicken) which finds the Predator tangling with his most formidable foe yet – Santa and his reindeer.

THE PREDATOR short takes plenty of inspiration from the classic Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer Christmas special, and executive producer Matt Senreich told Entertainment Weekly that a lot of their animators cite that project as what inspired them to get into stop-motion. "We grew up with a lot of this stuff that we have a nostalgia for a lot of these properties. As far as the animation style, a lot of our animators go back to Rudolph as what inspired them to get into the business," said Senreich. "And as far as taking a property like Predator and just turning it 90 degrees on its side is what we really like to do, it’s our sense of storytelling."

About the Author

Kevin Fraser

News Editor

11,688 Articles Published

Favorite Movies: Alien, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, read more Braveheart, The Bridge on the River Kwai, City of God, Cloud Atlas, Creature from the Black Lagoon, The Edge, The Fifth Element, Galaxy Quest, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, The Godfather Parts I & II, Goodfellas, The Good the Bad and the Ugly, Gladiator, Lawrence of Arabia, The Lord of the Rings Trilogy, The Magnificent Seven, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Perfume: The Story of a Murderer, The Prestige, Prisoners, Psycho, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Rear Window, The Shining, Sorcerer, The Talented Mr. Ripley, There Will be Blood, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, Zodiac

Likes: Drawing, cooking, watching movies, trying and failing to come up with read more more items for my likes list.

The comment section exists to allow readers to discuss the article constructively and respectfully, focused on the topic at hand.

What’s Not Allowed

Abusive language, insults, or harassment toward other users or staff.
Hate speech of any kind is strictly prohibited.
Bickering, bullying, personal attacks, or baiting others to argue
Extended off-topic debates, especially those centered on politics or religion rather than the article topic
No AI content or SPAM