How tall was the first predator

Frantically chasing after a group of teenagers, he picked them off one by one with a chainsaw, resulting in some of the most brutal killings ever seen on screen. Standing at 6'4", Gunnar Hansen utilized his height well to intimidate the frightened teenagers , and also moved at a faster pace than expected for someone of his stature.

One of the first modern horror films to feature a large, looming antagonist, similar to Michael Myers or Jason Voorhees a few years later. When two of the most terrifying horror movie villains of all time clashed against one another , Jason Voorhees needed to be truly monstrous when compared to the supernaturally powerful Freddy Krueger who, when played by Robert Englund, stood 5'9".

Jason was played by Ken Kirzinger in Freddy vs. Jason , and at 6'5" became the tallest actor to ever embody the silent killing machine. Of the nine actors to don the hockey mask, Kirzinger remains the tallest, and, having worked as a stunt coordinator on Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan, knew his way around the stuntwork needed to make Jason threatening.

Eagle-eyed viewers can see what Kirzinger looks like without the mask in the aforementioned film when he plays a cook who is thrown aside by Jason Kane Hodder pursuing his enemies. With his smooth velvet voice and hypnotic presence, the Candyman was a horror villain that wasn't altogether unpleasant; that is until he skewered his victim with his hand hook.

Tony Todd brought the urban legend to life, his height making him an instant horror icon. At 6'5", Candyman was an imposing menace, especially since he caught many of his victims in narrow spaces such as bathrooms and corridors.

His height made it easy to believe he could overpower anyone he encountered, and also that he might be difficult to kill if his victims couldn't compete with his brawn. Just how tall is Michael Myers, one of the grandfathers of slasher cinema? Embodied by Tony Moran in the classic Halloween , the original Michael Myers' height was 6'0", and he became an iconic horror movie villain thanks to a combination of Moran's body language and his imposing physical presence. When Rob Zombie set out to remake Halloween, he chose not only to change Michael's origins but cast an even more gigantic actor to portray the serial killer; Tyler Mane.

Standing at 6'9", Mane became nearly the tallest horror menace ever seen on screen and imbued Myers with all the indomitable athleticism of his early wrestling career.

As the Marine, you weren't really looking up at any of the Aliens, nor at the Preds. They looked similar in height to you, nowhere near towering or something. Plus, the Aliens looked really thin compared to the movies. I can't remember really well, but for some reason, I think that as the other races, you were actually noticeably larger than the humans in your POV, looking down at them.

But I can't remember really well. Xenos are taller, and Preds are heavier. I guess. Aliens are taller. Weight - don't know. Predators look heavier but that doesn't mean much. Possibly heavier, too, owing to having both an exoskeleton and an endoskeleton although nowhere near the 1 ton mark someone tried to pass off recently. In a jungle. It was these not-ideal conditions which, according to Van Damme, ultimately led to his dismissal. Crack [ makes snapping motion ]. And then they stopped the film, and they did a new, more safe, outfit.

And Stan decided that the way to do the suit is to start with the tallest, biggest guy he could find, not someone who was the agile mover that Van Damme was. He also offered up a fourth, mutually exclusive, eyewitness account of the firing itself, because at this point why not?

He started off as nice as anybody could possibly start off, and then he just ended where he told Claude that he wanted to take his fucking head, go out there, put it on the concrete and have one of those big fucking trucks run over his head fucking-thousand times. It was released in February , eight months after Predator , and his aborted role as an extraterrestrial ant ninja became a footnote.

He thought I was the type of alien with a human face and body, where people would be able to recognize me. See the section of the oral history concerning Van Damme below, or read the whole thing here. But when it comes to why, exactly, he got fired, nearly everyone THR spoke with had a different explanation — including three separate first-person accounts of the actual moment he was fired.

Burch: Jean-Claude Van Damme was someone who used to constantly come into my office, jumping up in the air, showing me his moves, begging me for work. He was nobody. He even stored his furniture in my garage! Why Predator? But his instincts also told him that Predator was going to be great, which shows his good judgment of material.

The arcade game Alien vs. Predator features a character named Dutch Schaefer as an homage to the character in the film. Additionally, Dutch Schafer in the game has a mechanical arm and is said to be a cyborg, likely a reference to Schwarzenegger's starring role in the Terminator series, particularly the second film which features a famous scene where Schwarzenegger strips the skin from his left arm, revealing the robotic structure beneath.

In the scene where Mac crushes the dead scorpion under his boot, when the Predator picks up the scorpion in his palm. His bio-mask thermals makes the scorpion look similar to a xenomorph facehugger. The film's iconic score was used in numerous movie trailers including Ghost in the Machine and Blind Vision Carl Weathers came onboard because John McTiernan wanted an actual actor to work against Schwarzenegger.

The director had to fight to get a quality actor in the role. The first week of shooting was a nightmare at times due mostly to the crowded jungle conditions caused by the presence of Mexican crewmen with little to nothing to do.

The local union had overstocked the production with unnecessary workers, so John McTiernan eventually sent half of them packing with pay. Some sources give Dillon's first name as George. While his first name is never mentioned in the film, the novel states that his first name is Al. The song that Blain plays on the stereo is "Long Tall Sally" by Little Richard and runs almost a minute longer than the long edit from This is going to kill us!

During a confrontation scene with Dillon, Dutch mentioned that his crew were "not expendables". As of , none of the actors who played Dutch's crew appeared in any of the three Expendables film unlike Arnold Schwarzenegger who appeared in all of them. In the movie, Dutch and his team's full names are never said in the movie.

Dutch's real name is Alan Schaefer. Dillon's first name is Al. Poncho's real name is Jorge Ramirez. Mac's surname is Eliot. Billy's surname is Sole. Blain's surname is Cooper and Hawkin's first name is Rick.

Initially, the mask design was a mechanical interpretation of the creature's face. To avoid giving away the look of the creature too early in the film, Stan Winston Studio changed the mask design to a simpler, more 'tribal' look. The mask on the left was later used in Predator 2 "The concepts were identical," Winston said, "and yet, Rick was nominated in makeup and I was nominated in visual effects. What that points out, I think, is that there is really no way to categorize what we do.

No one form of technology defines the characters that we've developed over the years. What is it? Is it makeup? Is it special effects? Is it visual effects? Sometimes it is all of the above. Whatever best serves that character, that's what we use. Our starting point has always been to ask ourselves, 'Who is this character?

The attack on the compound was shot by a 2nd unit director, but John McTiernan wasn't fond of its "stuntman" style consisting of "static shot after static shot" punctuated by explosions. They had to slow the barrel down for the film because in reality it spins so fast that it doesn't photograph well. A person could really only manage to carry roughly six seconds worth of ammo.

It's nonsense, but, it's a movie, so who knows. There's also a lb battery behind the person firing it. The shot of Dutch Schwarzenegger and his team crawling with the binoculars was accomplished with a crane and a remote control camera, and it pissed off the studio because it took "three hours to get the damn shot. They initially attempted to use real heat vision cameras to capture the Predator's vision, but not only was it a large piece of equipment with an umbilical that would only stretch four feet from the van, but there was also an even bigger problem.

Consequently, people were the same temperature as the background, and they were perfectly camouflaged. John McTiernan had to go behind the studio's and producers' backs to try some tests at a video production house.

They created the effects digitally and were accepted once he proved their value. The big tree used in the end confrontation is made out of concrete.

The only scene where anyone was actually hurt on the film is the bit where Dutch slides down the hillside and falls into the river. The stuntman apparently threw his knee out while falling. Well, there was a second injury. I fell out of a tree. I was too embarrassed to admit I was hurt. In an effort not to get sick while filming in Mexico John McTiernan instead went without much eating. What did you see? At , Dutch Arnold Schwarzenegger reveals that he knows they are being hunted by saying, "Don't!

Leave it He didn't kill you because you weren't armed No sport. Arnold Schwarzenegger's cigar wouldn't light for the credits sequence, so they used optical effects to make it appear lit. The 20th Century Fox logo is stretched because they wouldn't let him use anamorphic widescreen due to the film's opticals. The original creature design was by all accounts terrible, but when they brought on Stan Winston the effects wizard went away for a week and returned with the design seen in the final film.

When it came time to shoot Winston also brought a team of young guys operating individual controls to make the creature's face move. John McTiernan feels there's a fascination among audiences about seeing guns being fired, so he added the scene of the remaining team members firing blindly into the jungle for a couple minutes.

All of this is sort of a moral separate peace here, and in order to do it I set up the circumstance where there were no human beings in front of the guns. In fact the point of all the firing was, as the man says as soon as they stop shooting, 'We hit nothing. Which was the exact opposite of what believe I was being hired to sell.

The wild boar that Mac killed was fake. John McTiernan doesn't read subtitles when watching foreign films. I don't pay attention to what they say. I pay attention to what they look like when they say it and how it sounds. The production company had to take out an insurance policy on Sonny Landham Billy due to his behavior! The other people on the set were afraid of him. This is the second movie in 10 years in which Carl Weathers plays a soldier, after Close Encounters of the Third Kind which was also about extraterrestrials.

The opening credits sequence was filmed in Puerta Vallarta, Mexico. John McTiernan and cinematographer Donald McAlpine had to plead the studio to let them film somewhere with actual jungle foliage, and they were granted permission. Regarding Jesse Ventura, John McTiernan was surprised to discover he was "a lot brighter than he pretended to be" and "truly astonished" when he heard Ventura was elected governor of Minnesota years later. It was announced in April that the original Predator writers were suing Disney's 20th Century Studios.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, Jim and John Thomas, who wrote 's Predator, have filed a lawsuit against 20th Century Studios over the copyrights to the sci-fi action classic. The Thomas brothers allegedly filed the suit to exploit a copyright termination provision in order to recover the copyright to their literary material. Disney's 20th Century Studios filed a countersuit against them to keep the franchise under its ever-expanding film roster.

The lawsuit put plans for a new fifth Predator solo movie to be directed by Dan Trachtenberg on hold. Schwarzenegger, Ventura and Landham would later become politicians, the first two making successful bids for governor of California and Minnesota while Landham ran for governor of Kentucky. Richard Chaves was bitten by ants.

Arnold Schwarzenegger posed for photos with the snake around his shoulders. Geoff Murphy was first attached to direct. Arnold Schwarzenegger was sick during production after drinking tap water. The film served as an inspiration for the Filipino film Bangis When Dutch says that the Predator is a hunter there is a long pause when he says it as 'Hunter' was the original title of the film.

Animal cruelty is shown of a scorpion being stabbed by a knife. John McTiernan originally wanted the team to arrive on scene via a halo jump and describes the entire sequence as written a C plane, an attacking Mig, and Dutch putting his gun to the pilot's head to force him over the landing zone at which point he would run for the back ramp, grab a parachute off the wall and jump but he sacrificed it in exchange for not including an interior shot in the Predator's spaceship. Schwarzenegger later used it in Eraser The "curtain call" at the end was due to McTiernan's desire to show the team together again after the downer ending.

Dillon tells Anna to "vamos"; it means "move on" in Spanish and Portuguese. The Predator happens to be an extra terrestrial hunter. John McTiernan points out that this was his first studio film, and it's actually only his second feature period after the moody horror thriller, Nomads.

They had to ship three Huey helicopters to Mexico for the shoot. The montage of the choppers flying while the mercenaries chatted within was originally shot with the doors open against a blue screen, but it was far too much of a pain. John McTiernan points out how much Schwarzenegger resembles Sgt. Rock and mentions that the actor was discussing the possibility of making that movie even then. Spoofed in the song "Nathan the Predator" by Bonecage. Some years after the encounter with the alien in Central America, Dutch tells his brother his story about aliens and government cover-ups, then disappears.

Later on, John encounters one such creature that sets him on his own investigation. Is this interesting? The characters of Mac and Blain were originally written to be white supremacists who did not like the idea of Dillon, a black character, joining their team.

This concept was dropped when Bill Duke was cast as Mac, but many of their hazing efforts are kept in the final film, such as Blain spitting tobacco on Dillon's shoes, and Mac threatening Blain in the jungle, though they do not contain the racial angles that the script had.

John McTiernan points out a scene with a degree camera dolly pan in it. Is this true? Would McTiernan lie? John McTiernan wants to be clear that the Predator's dreadlocks are in no way a signifier of racial ethnicity. Spoilers The trivia items below may give away important plot points. The black helicopter pilot seen at the end of the movie is Kevin Peter Hall , the actor who plays the Predator.

John McTiernan gave him the brief on-screen role, because his "work as Predator was so exhausting. Body count: sixty-nine humans most of them at the hands of Dutch Schaefer , one scorpion, one boar, and one Predator. According to the Xenopedia, the Alien vs Predator wiki website: following his last stand against the Predator, Dutch was suffering from radiation sickness due to the Predator setting off his self-destruct device. But Dutch escaped from the hospital and vanished.

Before Blain gets killed by the predator with its plasmacaster, blood appears on his neck and shoulder. It is revealed on the commentary that the Predator initially tried to kill him with its speargun, but only grazing his shoulder, resulting in the Predator using his plasmacaster.

The animal that startles Blain just before he's killed by the Predator is a Mexican tree porcupine. Rumors persist that Billy's death was originally filmed but cut from the movie because it was too violent. This is completely false, as Billy's demise was always intended to occur off-screen, with his scream being the only indication of what happened to him. The sequence is similar to King Willie's death in Predator 2 where viewers see the build-up to the fight and its aftermath, yet the battle itself occurs off-screen.

Fans sometimes refer to the self-destruct device as a "wrist nuke". This nickname probably refers to the size and nature of the explosion itself, since it has never been clarified whether the device is actually nuclear in nature.

However, in the original script for Predator 2 , it is specified that Dutch Arnold Schwarzenegger had to be treated in a hospital for radiation sickness following his final showdown with the creature, and nuclear explosions typically cause toxic amounts of radiation.

Several weapons were proposed for the Predator but cut from the finished film, including a speargun a projectile from which is glimpsed very briefly wounding Blain before he is killed and a spear. These later resurfaced as the speargun and the combistick in Predator 2 Another weapon designed for the creature, but not recycled in the second movie, was a sword. Two swords were built from fiberglass and the weapon was actually incorporated into the first test suit, sheathed inside the Predator's backpack.

However, it was removed when it was found the creature's head caught on the handle when Kevin Peter Hall turned to look around. The facial appearance of the Predator was inspired by the wrinkle-faced bat Centurio Senex. When the film was broadcast on ITV in the UK in , some violent scenes in the film, and bad language, were cut for censorship, and for time: Mac warning Dillon that he'll bleed him, if he gives up his position again.