HORROR TEN SPOT: Top 10 Predator Kills

May 21st 2010, 8:09pm

Last Updated on August 3, 2021

Nimrod Antal and Robert Rodriguez are going to try and pump some life back into the flagging Predator franchise this summer with PREDATORS, so it seems like a decent time to look back at some of the best kills the series has to offer. After all, whether it’s in the jungle, the city, ancient buried pyramids or the suburbs, watching a Predator kill some sumbitches is something the series usually gets right.

If we’re lucky than the awesome looks we’ve gotten from the new entry so far will play out as good across the entire new movie and we’ll have a true return to form for this once amazing idea. And if not, well you’ll have this list of greatest hits to carry you through until somebody tries again.

Oh, and you may notice that nothing from AvP: Requiem is mentioned. That’s because I actually re-watched that motherfucker for the list and the only kill I could pull would be the stupid deputy running away like a little girl and getting stabbed in the back. Weak.

So spit those bullets about your favorite Predator moments, memories, and hopes or fears about the new flick.

1. Dillon’s death, PREDATOR

Let’s be honest, nobody much wants to like Carl Weathers at this juncture. The dude lied to a friend and put an entire team of highly trained soldiers in serious jeopardy. But you can’t argue with the dude’s grit. His gun toting arm gets blown off by the Predator, so what’s he do. He goes for another weapon with the arm that’s still attached. Sure he’s skewered by the time he gets it firing, but man if ya gotta go out, that’s not a bad way to handle yourself.

2. Jamaican massacre, P2

I could watch these dreadlocked gangsta’s get their asses handed to them Predator style all night long. The scene starts off as an execution of a rival drug dealer, full of chicken blood, soul stealing, and voodoo. All well and good, but then it gets even better as the executioners find themselves on the wrong end of a life expectancy chart, and the Predator does the L.A. area a valuable public service.

3. Mac’s death, PREDATOR

As previously mentioned, poor Mac just lost it when his buddy Blain got taken out. So he’s playing pretty loose when he finds himself stuck under a bunch of roots with a three-dot target lighting up his forearm. He moves to get a better look, and there those three dots are on his head. And then no more head. No more Mac. A total “did you just see that” moment.

4. Ice Station massacre – AvP

Predators sure know how to kill a lot of people fast. In this case you’ve got three of them against an elite team of warriors and the whole thing takes about 45 seconds. Visually the invisible spear unveiling as it holds a twitching man to the wall is the top moment here, but all of the rapid destruction of life and limb is a welcome break from the slow build up in the movie to that point.

5. Billy takes one for the team, PREDATOR

Sonny Landham made a career out of playing badass Native Americans, but was any of them ever as badass as Billy? And it’s for that very reason that it’s so damn creepy when he says frankly, “We’re all gonna die.” It’s too bad that we don’t get to see him actually fight the Predator, but his chest cutting preparation for battle followed by his horrific off-screen scream are classic.

6. King Willie beheaded, P2

I’m not sure I’ve been more relieved at the passing of any other character in the franchise. King Willie may seriously be the worst acting in the entire series. If we actually got to see him die this might be higher on the list, but as it is the transition from him alive and preparing to fight, to the Predator walking away carrying the man’s head is pretty damn satisfying.

7. Peter Keyes’ death, P2

You know what I love about Gary Busey? Everything. And in this flick the man is at his over emoting best. So when he jumps out of nowhere to save ole Danny Glover it almost makes you root for a character who’s been nothing but a complete dick all the way along. Of course it’s still fun to watch the Predator cut him in half with a disc blade, along with about five hanging racks of meat. Really a win from all angles on this one.

8. Weyland bites it, AvP

Weyland getting stabbed by a Predator isn’t the coolest death ever, but it sure beats dying of that cancer that was gonna take him down anyway. Plus he got to rock a home made flame thrower before going to his final reward. The man behind it all goes down for the count, but we know his legacy will live on.

9. Blain’s death, PREDATOR

Jesse “I ain’t got time to bleed” Ventura was his consummate badass self here, but then he got laid out like nobody’s business. A quick shot to the chest and he no longer had a middle. Not only did it show the awesome power of the Predator, but it also sent Mac’s sanity spiraling. But we’ll get to that later.

10. Fed massacre, P2

There’s little that’s more fun than watching authoritative a$$holes get their due. And man o man does this crew of incompetent Special Ops tards get busted up good. How you can be in charge of chasing an enemy alien intelligence and be this bad at tactics is beyond me. So while we want Danny Glover to take down the Predator eventually, seeing him drop in the middle of this band of idiots and tear them up WWE style is a helluva lot of fun.