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Predator

Midnight Screenings 2018 / Predator / USA 1987

“I ain’t got time to bleed.” A military commando team, hastily called up on a rescue mission to the Val Verde jungle, is made up of the toughest guys on the planet. Too bad, though, because their adversary is not of this world, and the cosmic carnivore has chosen Earth as its hunting ground.…

Predator

Synopsis

An impenetrable jungle, a cosmic hunter, and the most manly handshake in film history. Few motion pictures provide as many iconic moments as this one. Yet this perfect mix of action, suspense, and humor is no ordinary B-movie but a polished genre masterpiece unsurpassed in the decades since its release. On top of that, the story of absolutely the toughest of American units, whose members are picked off one by one by an invisible stalker, features the best thing to come out of the 1980s: Arnie Schwarzenegger. His powerful muscles and even more powerful Austrian accent are the sole salvation from a seemingly invincible cosmic foe. But remember, whatever can bleed can die.

Nikola Paggio

About the film

107 min / Color, DCP

Director John McTiernan / Screenplay Jim Thomas, John Thomas, Shane Black / Dir. of Photography Donald McAlpine / Music Alan Silvestri / Editor Mark Helfrich, John F. Link / Art Director Frank Richwood, Jorge Sainz / Producer Lawrence Gordon, Joel Silver, John Davis / Production Lawrence Gordon Productions, Silver Pictures, Davis Entertainment / Cast Arnold Schwarzenegger, Carl Weathers, Elpidia Carrillo, Bill Duke, Richard Chaves / Sales Park Circus Group

About the director

John McTiernan

John McTiernan (b. 1951, Albany, New York, USA). Selected filmography: Predator (1987), Die Hard (1988), The Hunt for Red October (1990), Medicine Man (1992), Last Action Hero (1993), The 13th Warrior (1999), The Thomas Crown Affair (1999), Basic (2003)

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