ALIEN INVASION SONGS MOVIE

GREIVING: Schachner specializes in finding ancient, unusual instruments and weaving them into a modern action tapestry. SARAH SCHACHNER: He had been playing Assassin's Creed Valhalla while they were in production on the film, and he really liked what he heard. (SOUNDBITE OF SARAH SCHACHNER'S 'THE FATE OF EAST MERCIA') And for the film's score, he sought out a non-Native video game composer he admired, Sarah Schachner.

GREIVING: 'Prey's' director Dan Trachtenberg and producer Jhane Myers, a Comanche herself, filled the cast with Native actors and even recorded a Comanche-language dub. (SOUNDBITE OF SARAH SCHACHNER'S 'NARU'S WAY')

ALIEN INVASION SONGS MOVIE

GREIVING: The new movie 'Prey' goes back in time for an origin story, plopping the predator into the bucolic world of the Comanche people before the real-life invasion of alien colonists from Europe. TIM GREIVING, BYLINE: The original predator was a vicious game hunter from outer space equipped with thermal vision, a cloaking device and big, nasty mandibles. The score comes with its own backstory, as Tim Greiving reports. It's about a high-tech alien warrior landing on the Comanche plains 300 years ago. And finally today, the movie 'Prey' is a prequel to 'Predator,' a blockbuster Arnold Schwarzenegger hit from the 1980s.

Alien invasion songs