A team of elite commandos on a secret mission in a Central American jungle come to find themselves hunted by an extraterrestrial warrior.
Practical Effects
Stan Winston's creature design still unmatched forty years later.
Acting
Arnold's 'Get to the choppa!' — cinema's greatest delivery.
Score
Silvestri's tribal drums pulse like the Predator's heartbeat.
Director
John McTiernan
Arnold Schwarzenegger
Major Alan "Dutch" Schaefer
Carl Weathers
Al Dillon
Kevin Peter Hall
The Predator / Helicopter Pilot
Elpidia Carrillo
Anna Gonsalves
Bill Duke
Mac Eliot
Jesse Ventura
Blain Cooper
Sonny Landham
Billy Sole
Richard Chaves
Jorge "Poncho" Ramirez
R.G. Armstrong
Major General Homer Phillips
Shane Black
Rick Hawkins
Peter Cullen
Predator (voice) (uncredited)
Steve Boyum
Hostage Executed by the Russian (uncredited)
Henry Kingi
Guerilla Soldier Blown Up in Van (uncredited)
Sven-Ole Thorsen
Russian Officer (uncredited)
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Jean-Claude Van Damme originally played the Predator but quit after two days, finding the suit 'ridiculous' and the role 'stupid.'
The thermal vision effect was achieved by filming the jungle with infrared cameras, then reversing the negative — accidentally inventing a franchise's entire visual language.
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