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PREDATOR (1987)
A spaceship lands in the jungle with a fully equipped alien nimrod on board. Not only the predators inhabiting the jungle, but also the humans become its prey. This is the prologue to the famous film, which is a popular genre combination of American action-commando stories, horror and SF. A squad led by the experienced Major Dutch Schaefer is dropped into enemy territory to rescue several American soldiers from guerrilla captivity in the middle of the jungle. However, after a successful operation, the American soldiers must face a far more mysterious and dangerous enemy. The jungle turns into a trap from which there is no escape, and the American heroes learn for the first time in their lives what fear is. The film, which is now considered a classic of the genre, impresses above all with its tension and thickening atmosphere of fear, as the American supermen are slowly thrown off their routine bravery and balance. Equally successful is the conception of the alien, a blunt, eerily mysterious figure, employing perfect mimicry, whose presence is signalled only by the thermography of his gaze. It is only in the final scene that Stan Winston's perfect mask appears on the scene in all its horror...
PREDATOR 2 (1990)
In this thrilling sequel to the action hit, this time the Predator goes on a rampage in a completely different jungle - the jungle of Los Angeles. Danny Glover shines as a stubborn cop who takes on a brutal alien who has come to Earth from a distant galaxy to hunt humans for fun...
