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"Help me."

  • When Cuchillo goes missing, they find him down on his knees, his back to the group, in a clearing. Royce quickly deduces and proves that Cuchillo is surrounded by traps, and he's presumably wounded, as they can hear him saying "Help me." After a quick debate, Isabelle shoots Cuchillo to put him out of his misery... And seconds later, the corpse says "Help me" in a terrifyingly distorted voice. Then the camera switches angles, and you see that Cuchillo was dead for the entire scene, with the skin on one half of his face completely cleaved off.
    • The reason that Mombasa twigs what's going on with Cuchillo? Because he's done it before.
  • The Berserker Predator's face when it unmasks itself during its fight with the Classic Predator.
    • Its battle against the Classic Predator is also distressingly one-sided.
  • The exact implications of the Predator conflict. The Classic Predators aren't exactly saints themselves, and the Super Predators quite clearly are considered morally reprehensible by their standards. What other kinds of criminal Predators are out there?
  • No two ways about it: Noland is nuttier than squirrel shit. He's also a trained soldier who's managed to kill Predators, Predators as in plural, and reverse-engineer their technology.
  • A deleted scene reveals why Stans was on death row; he killed 38 people all by himself and did it purely because he felt like it. The Predators may hunt people for sport, but even they're not that crazy.
  • While the group is speculating about where they are, Stans brings up rumors he's heard in prison about the government performing "social experiments" where they take a bunch of prisoners, dope them up with drugs, drop them in the wild, and just watch what happens - a premise horrifying enough that it'd probably make for a crazy horror movie itself. Likewise, Cuchillo suggests they might be getting held for ransom and brings up a tactic he saw used by cartels in which people taken hostage would be put into drums of oil and if the ransom wasn't paid, the barrel would be lit on fire.
  • The Reveal that meek, unassuming Edwin is actually a Serial Killer. For most of the movie, he had come off as the only normal person around, than in an instant it's flipped and he's the craziest motherfucker in a film full of nutjobs. Topher Grace does a scarily good job changing tack from "doofy Non-Action Guy" to "bloodthirsty lunatic".
    "I like it here... I wanna stay."

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