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A cultural sensation in the early 2000s, NBC’s candid-camera investigative series To Catch a Predator ensnared child predators and lured them to a film set, where they would be interviewed and arrested while cameras rolled.
The show was a hit and transformed its host, Chris Hansen, into a moral crusader and TV star, while spawning a worldwide industry of imitators and vigilantes. But why did the public watch so voraciously — and continue to devour its clickbait, web-based spinoffs?
Looking back on the show and the countless franchises it spawned, filmmaker David Osit turns his camera on journalists, actors, law enforcers, academics, and ultimately himself, to understand the obsession with watching people at their lowest.
Predators is an unsettling, edge-of-your-seat film that delves into the murk of human nature to observe hunter, predator and spectator alike, in a place where the lines between justice and entertainment collapse entirely.