Predator is cult classic and a great movie to draw from when it comes to fun Halloween costumes. The original Predator movie spawned a few sequels starring the Predator, a lizard like alien life form. The Predator is a great Halloween costume that will help put anyone into the Halloween mood. The original movie starred future politicians Arnold Schwarzenegger who went on to be the governor of California in addition to an action movie legend and pro-wrestler Jesse Ventura who ended up serving as the governor of Minnesota. The movie came out in 1987 and was panned by critics for its lack of a storyline and the absurd premise. The bad reviews didn’t stop fans from seeing it, and they loved the special effects and the grisly fighting scenes and Predator become a horror and action film cult classic.
In the beginning of the film viewers see a spaceship approaching the Earth, and then there is an abrupt cut to the Guatemala coast. Viewers then meet Major Alan “Dutch” Schaefer who is the head of a military task force group that has been sent into Guatemala to rescue a member of the presidential cabinet who has been kidnapped and is being held in the rainforest of Guatemala by guerilla fighters opposed to the sitting government. Traveling with Dutch to help him are some of his oldest military friends like George Dillon, a CIA agent and Blain Cooper.
When the team is dropped by helicopter into the rainforest they find the remains of a crashed military helicopter and the skinned bodies of several Special Forces soldiers. The task force finds that strange but continues on with their mission. The team quickly overcomes the guerilla force, killing them all, and takes prisoner a woman who had been held by the guerillas, Anna. With Anna and the cabinet minister in tow they start out to get to the rendezvous point where they will be picked up by the military. At that point the viewers see the group being scanned by a thermal imager, which is the Predator. The Predator begins to hunt them, skinning anyone it kills and taking trophies. At that point the bodies that were found when the team first dropped into the area make sense and they realize that the creature has been hunting them and others in the area all along.
One by one the members of the task force drop, until only Dutch Shaefer and Anna are left. Realizing that the creature won’t attack someone that isn’t armed Dutch sends Anna to the rendezvous point to get help. In one of the most famous fight scenes of the movie Dutch and the creature face off and Dutch, badly hurt, accidentally falls in deep mud. When the creature can’t seem to find him he realizes that the creature is following his body’s heat signature and with that signature dampened by the cold mud the creature can’t find him. Dutch uses that to his advantage to fight back. The creature challenges Dutch to a hand to hand combat fight to the death, which Dutch accepts. After a violent battle Dutch manages to kill the Predator and is rescued by Anna and the rendezvous team.