Predator (1987)

Directed by

John McTiernan

Genre

action film, adventure film, horror film, science fiction film, monster film, thriller film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 47m

Rated

R

Rating

7.6 of 10 from 9,264 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Dutch leads a paramilitary team on a rescue mission in the jungle. They are hunted one by one by a technologically advanced alien that enjoys the challenge of killing.

tensesuspensefuladrenaline-fueledmenacingmachovisceralclaustrophobicrelentless

What happens

Predator is a 1987 American science fiction action horror film directed by John McTiernan and written by brothers Jim and John Thomas. Arnold Schwarzenegger stars as Dutch, the leader of a paramilitary rescue team on a mission to save hostages in a Central American rainforest, who encounters a deadly Predator (Kevin Peter Hall), a skilled and technologically advanced extraterrestrial that stalks and hunts his team down. The film also features Elpidia Carrillo, Carl Weathers, Richard Chaves, Sonny Landham, Bill Duke, Jesse Ventura and Shane Black. Predator was written in 1984 with a working title of Hunter. Filming ran from March to June 1986 with creature effects devised by Stan Winston and a budget of around $15 million. 20th Century Fox released the film on June 12, 1987, in the United States of America, and it grossed $98 million worldwide. Initial reviews were mixed, but the film has since been considered a classic of action and science fiction genres and one of the best films of the 1980s, and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Visual Effects. The success of Predator inspired a media franchise of films, novels, comic books, video games, and toys. It spawned six additional films: Predator 2 (1990), Predators (2010), The Predator (2018), Prey (2022), Predator: Killer of Killers (2025) and Predator: Badlands (2025). Crossover with the Alien franchise produced the Alien vs. Predator film series: Alien vs. Predator (2004) and Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem (2007). Schaefer would return in the video games Alien vs. Predator (1994) and Predator: Hunting Grounds (2020), with Schwarzenegger reprising his role in the latter. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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