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* The Predator's actual speaking voice is pretty unsettling. After getting beaten by Dutch, it answers his "what the hell are you" question not with its usual mimicry, but with its own ''completely inhuman'' voice. It takes GutturalGrowler up to eleven, as its voice sounds like a mix of growls, grunts, and clicks unnaturally contorted into English.

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* The Predator's actual speaking voice is pretty unsettling. After getting beaten by Dutch, it answers his "what the hell are you" question not with its usual mimicry, but with its own ''completely inhuman'' voice. It takes GutturalGrowler raspiness up to eleven, as its voice sounds like a mix of growls, grunts, and clicks unnaturally contorted into English.
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-->'''Anna:''' When I was little, we found a man. He looked like... like, butchered. The old woman in the village crossed themselves... and whispered crazy things -- strange things. ''“El Diablo cazador de hombres.”'' [[EternalRecurrence Only in the hottest years this happens -- and this year, it grows hot.]] We begin finding our men. We found them sometimes without their skins... [[AFateWorseThanDeath and sometimes much, much worse]]. ...''“El que hace trofeos de los hombres”'' means ''“the demon who makes trophies of men”''.

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-->'''Anna:''' When I was little, we found a man. He looked like... like, butchered. The old woman in the village crossed themselves... and whispered crazy things -- strange things. ''“El ''"El Diablo cazador de hombres.”'' "'' [[EternalRecurrence Only in the hottest years this happens -- and this year, it grows hot.]] We begin finding our men. We found them sometimes without their skins... [[AFateWorseThanDeath and sometimes much, much worse]]. ...''“El ''"El que hace trofeos de los hombres”'' hombres"'' means ''“the ''"the demon who makes trophies of men”''.men"''.
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Like its Franchise/{{Alien}} counterpart, Franchise/{{Predator}} has had its fair share of nightmarish moments, mostly revolving around the titular antagonist.

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Like its Franchise/{{Alien}} ''Franchise/{{Alien}}'' counterpart, Franchise/{{Predator}} ''Franchise/{{Predator}}'' has had its fair share of nightmarish moments, mostly revolving around the titular antagonist.
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-->'''Anna:''' When I was little, we found a man. He looked like... like, butchered. The old woman in the village crossed themselves... and whispered crazy things -- strange things. ''“El Diablo cazador de hombres.”'' [[EternalRecurrence Only in the hottest years this happens -- and this year, it grows hot.]] We begin finding our men. We found them sometimes without their skins... [[AFateWorseThanDeath and sometimes much, much worse]]. ...''“El caza trofeos de los hombres”'' means ''“the demon who makes trophies of men”''.

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-->'''Anna:''' When I was little, we found a man. He looked like... like, butchered. The old woman in the village crossed themselves... and whispered crazy things -- strange things. ''“El Diablo cazador de hombres.”'' [[EternalRecurrence Only in the hottest years this happens -- and this year, it grows hot.]] We begin finding our men. We found them sometimes without their skins... [[AFateWorseThanDeath and sometimes much, much worse]]. ...''“El caza que hace trofeos de los hombres”'' means ''“the demon who makes trophies of men”''.
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* When Hawkins is killed by the Predator. It moves in swiftly and kills him, spilling blood all over the female refugee. All that his crew members can locate of Hawkins is through a blood trail. The audience doesn't see much, thankfully, but BodyHorror and {{Squick}} don't even begin to describe it.

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* When Hawkins is killed by the Predator. It moves in swiftly and kills him, spilling blood all over the female refugee. All that his crew members can locate of Hawkins is through a blood trail. The audience doesn't see much, thankfully, but BodyHorror and {{Squick}} don't even begin to describe it. It doubles because the group has already been established as hardened badasses, and Poncho is ''deeply unsettled'' by what he's just seen.

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* When [[spoiler: Hawkins]] is killed by the Predator. It moves in swiftly and kills him, spilling blood all over the female refugee. All that his crew members can locate of [[spoiler: Hawkins]] is through a blood trail. The audience doesn't see much, thankfully, but BodyHorror and {{Squick}} don't even begin to describe it.

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* When [[spoiler: Hawkins]] Hawkins is killed by the Predator. It moves in swiftly and kills him, spilling blood all over the female refugee. All that his crew members can locate of [[spoiler: Hawkins]] Hawkins is through a blood trail. The audience doesn't see much, thankfully, but BodyHorror and {{Squick}} don't even begin to describe it.



'''Dutch:''' Did you find [[spoiler: Hawkins]]?\\

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'''Dutch:''' Did you find [[spoiler: Hawkins]]?\\Hawkins?\\



* A sort of reveal after Mac dies: the laser beam's convergence at the Predator's shoulder mount gives viewers the impression it shot Mac from quite a distance... then it ''moves'', and we see that it was literally standing [[ParanoiaFuel right on top of him]].
** Mac must have [[OhCrap realized that]] right before he died.
*** Mac's SanitySlippage is actually quite disturbing to watch, between his wide-eyed ThousandYardStare and his voice cracking while uttering the MadnessMantra.
* The Predator's laugh [[spoiler:when it activates the self-destruction mechanism to kill itself.]] It starts out deep and slow, then suddenly bursts into a high, loud, very human-like maniacal cackle which mimics Billy's laugh.
* While waiting for the Predator to fall into their trap, Anna starts talking about something that happened in her childhood:

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* A sort of reveal after Mac dies: the laser beam's convergence at the Predator's shoulder mount gives viewers the impression it shot Mac from quite a distance... then it ''moves'', and we see that it was literally standing [[ParanoiaFuel right on top of him]].
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him]]. Mac must have [[OhCrap realized that]] right before he died.
*** * Mac's SanitySlippage is actually quite disturbing to watch, between his wide-eyed ThousandYardStare and his voice cracking while uttering the MadnessMantra.
* The Predator's laugh [[spoiler:when when it activates the self-destruction mechanism to kill itself.]] itself. It starts out deep and slow, then suddenly bursts into a high, loud, very human-like maniacal cackle which mimics Billy's laugh.
* While waiting for the Predator to fall into their trap, Anna starts talking about something that happened in her childhood:childhood. The camera focuses on Dutch, who looks at her with curiosity and confusion.



** The camera focuses on Dutch, who looks at her with curiosity and confusion.




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* During operations in Iraq, a unit of U.S. Marines used the Predator's laugh as a psyops tool while clearing a section of Fallujah by blasting it across the city over loudspeakers. This backfired, because the Marines actually going door-to-door in the city got so weirded out that they radioed back to request that the recording be turned off.
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* The scene where Dutch careens off a waterfall and falls into a pool of water below to escape the Predator, and the Predator follows him. Dutch emerges above water, and is able to catch his breath in a few moments of silence...[[JumpScare and then the Predator falls into the pool a few yards behind him]], complete with a ScareChord. And since the Predator is still using its invisibility camouflage at this point, we still don't see the Predator proper when it hits the water -- [[NothingIsScarier just the resulting splash]], which makes the water look like ''[[UncannyValley it rose upwards by itself]]''. It's no surprise that Dutch, upon hearing the splash, ''immediately'' starts swimming towards land with an absolutely terrified expression.

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* The scene where Dutch careens off a waterfall and falls into a pool of water below to escape the Predator, and the Predator follows him. Dutch emerges above water, and is able to catch his breath in a few moments of silence...[[JumpScare and then the Predator falls into the pool a few yards behind him]], complete with a ScareChord. And since the Predator is still using its invisibility camouflage at this point, we still don't see the Predator proper when it hits the water -- [[NothingIsScarier just the resulting splash]], which makes the water look like ''[[UncannyValley it ''it rose upwards by itself]]''.itself''. It's no surprise that Dutch, upon hearing the splash, ''immediately'' starts swimming towards land with an absolutely terrified expression.
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* The Predator in general. Besides its [[BlatantLies delightful]] [[NightmareFace face,]] it can camouflage itself, making it near invisible (unless water comes into play), mimic human voices to lure victims and collects human skulls and spines as trophies. Not to mention, it has quite the array of [[HellIsThatNoise frightening roars, screams and clicking noises]].


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* The Predator in general. Besides its [[BlatantLies delightful]] [[NightmareFace face,]] it can camouflage itself, making it near invisible (unless water comes into play), mimic human voices to lure victims victims, and collects human skulls and spines as trophies. Not to mention, mention it has quite the array of [[HellIsThatNoise frightening roars, screams and clicking noises]].




* The skinned bloodied corpses of Jim Hopper and his men. Accompanied by a ScareChord and a JumpScare.

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* The skinned bloodied corpses of Jim Hopper and his men. Accompanied men, accompanied by a ScareChord and a JumpScare.



* When [[spoiler: Hawkins]] is killed by The Predator. It moves in swiftly and kills him, spilling blood all over the female refugee. All that his crew members could locate of [[spoiler: Hawkins]] through a blood trail. The Audience don't see much thankfully but BodyHorror and {{Squick}} can't even begin to describe it.

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* When [[spoiler: Hawkins]] is killed by The the Predator. It moves in swiftly and kills him, spilling blood all over the female refugee. All that his crew members could can locate of [[spoiler: Hawkins]] is through a blood trail. The Audience don't audience doesn't see much thankfully much, thankfully, but BodyHorror and {{Squick}} can't don't even begin to describe it.



'''Dutch:''' ''(eyes widen)''
* The part where the Predator steals Blaine's body and a boar it scared jumps on Mac in a panic.
** Also, the FridgeHorror that comes into play after the team discovers Blaine's body is missing - if that boar hadn't been there and been freaked out, they never would have known the Predator was there.
** Could even be that the Predator deliberately flushed the boar towards the team as a distraction, which gives a creepy indicator of how cunning the Predator really is.
* Dillion searches for Mac, only to find him dead. Suddenly he hears Mac behind him ("anytime"), causing him to quickly turn around. Dillion looks around up on the trees (we see from his point of view), with Predator's cackles echoing. As he's looking, you can just make out [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9xofywOoNak&t=0m57s the Predator's invisible silhouette standing on the branch]] which [[DoubleTake Dillion looked past before looking at it again]]. This time the silhouette is more obvious, with glowing eyes, which Dillion sees [[OhCrap with widen eyes]].
* The scene where Dutch ends up careening off a waterfall and falls into the pool of water below to escape the Predator, and the Predator follows him. Dutch emerges above water, and is able to catch his breath in a few moments of silence...[[JumpScare and then the Predator falls into the pool a few yards behind him]], complete with a ScareChord. And since the Predator is still using its invisibility camouflage at this point, we still don't see the Predator proper when it hits the water--[[NothingIsScarier just the resulting splash]], which makes the water look like ''[[UncannyValley it rose upwards by itself]]''. It's no surprise that Dutch upon hearing the splash ''immediately'' starts swimming towards land, with an absolutely terrified expression.

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'''Dutch:''' ''(eyes widen)''
''[eyes widen]''
* The part where the Predator steals Blaine's Blain's body and a boar it scared jumps on Mac in a panic.
** Also, the FridgeHorror that comes into play after the team discovers Blaine's body is missing - -- if that boar hadn't been there and been freaked out, they never would have known the Predator was there.
** Could It could even be that the Predator deliberately flushed the boar towards the team as a distraction, which gives a creepy indicator of how cunning the Predator really is.
* Dillion Dillon searches for Mac, only to find him dead. Suddenly he hears Mac behind him ("anytime"), ("any time"), causing him to quickly turn around. Dillion Dillon looks around up on into the trees (we see from his point of view), with Predator's cackles echoing. As he's looking, you can just make out [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9xofywOoNak&t=0m57s the Predator's invisible silhouette standing on the branch]] branch]], which [[DoubleTake Dillion looked Dillon looks past before looking at it again]]. This time the silhouette is more obvious, with glowing eyes, which Dillion Dillon sees [[OhCrap with widen eyes]].
* The scene where Dutch ends up careening careens off a waterfall and falls into the a pool of water below to escape the Predator, and the Predator follows him. Dutch emerges above water, and is able to catch his breath in a few moments of silence...[[JumpScare and then the Predator falls into the pool a few yards behind him]], complete with a ScareChord. And since the Predator is still using its invisibility camouflage at this point, we still don't see the Predator proper when it hits the water--[[NothingIsScarier water -- [[NothingIsScarier just the resulting splash]], which makes the water look like ''[[UncannyValley it rose upwards by itself]]''. It's no surprise that Dutch Dutch, upon hearing the splash splash, ''immediately'' starts swimming towards land, land with an absolutely terrified expression.



-->'''Anna:''' "When I was little, we found a man. He looked like... like, butchered. The old woman in the village crossed themselves... and whispered crazy things - strange things. ''“El Diablo cazador de hombres.”'' [[EternalRecurrence Only in the hottest years this happens - and this year, it grows hot.]] We begin finding our men. We found them sometimes without their skins... [[AFateWorseThanDeath and sometimes much, much worse]]. ...''“El caza trofeos de los hombres”'' means ''“the demon who makes trophies of men”''."

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-->'''Anna:''' "When When I was little, we found a man. He looked like... like, butchered. The old woman in the village crossed themselves... and whispered crazy things - -- strange things. ''“El Diablo cazador de hombres.”'' [[EternalRecurrence Only in the hottest years this happens - -- and this year, it grows hot.]] We begin finding our men. We found them sometimes without their skins... [[AFateWorseThanDeath and sometimes much, much worse]]. ...''“El caza trofeos de los hombres”'' means ''“the demon who makes trophies of men”''."



* The Predator's actual speaking voice is pretty unsettling. After getting beaten by Dutch, it answers his "what the hell are you" question not with its usual mimicry, but with its own ''completely inhuman'' voice. It takes GutturalGrowler up to eleven, as its voice sounds like a mix of growls, grunts and clicks unnaturally contorted into English.
* Not long after this, Dutch emerges from the team's hiding place, ostensibly to bait the Predator into their trap. He carefully navigates the network of snares and tripwires, even getting momentarily stuck on one, as he moves from cover into the open. He stands there a moment, staring into the jungle, and sees no sign of the creature. Just as he starts to turn around, a snare is triggered and with an awful roar the Predator flies into the air, hoisted by the net.
** The JumpScare alone is bad enough, but FridgeHorror comes into play once you consider that in order to have triggered that trap the Predator must have been ''standing right behind Dutch, totally invisible, about to stab him in the back.''

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* The Predator's actual speaking voice is pretty unsettling. After getting beaten by Dutch, it answers his "what the hell are you" question not with its usual mimicry, but with its own ''completely inhuman'' voice. It takes GutturalGrowler up to eleven, as its voice sounds like a mix of growls, grunts grunts, and clicks unnaturally contorted into English.
* Not long after this, Dutch emerges from the team's hiding place, ostensibly to bait the Predator into their trap. He carefully navigates the network of snares and tripwires, even getting momentarily stuck on one, as he moves from cover into the open. He stands there a moment, staring into the jungle, and sees no sign of the creature. Just as he starts to turn around, a snare is triggered triggered, and with an awful roar the Predator flies into the air, hoisted by the net.
** The JumpScare alone is bad enough, but FridgeHorror comes into play once you consider that in order to have triggered that trap trap, the Predator must have been ''standing right behind Dutch, totally invisible, about to stab him in the back.''



* During operations in Iraq, a unit of U.S. Marines used the Predator's laugh as a psyops tool while clearing a section of Fallujah, by blasting it across the city over loudspeakers. This backfired, because the Marines actually going door-to-door in the city got so weirded out that they radioed back to request that the recording be turned off.

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* During operations in Iraq, a unit of U.S. Marines used the Predator's laugh as a psyops tool while clearing a section of Fallujah, Fallujah by blasting it across the city over loudspeakers. This backfired, because the Marines actually going door-to-door in the city got so weirded out that they radioed back to request that the recording be turned off.
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* The Predator's actual speaking voice is pretty unsettling. After getting beaten by Dutch, it answers his "what the hell are you" question not with its usual mimicry, but with its own ''completely inhuman'' voice. It takes GutturalGrowler UpToEleven, as its voice sounds like a mix of growls, grunts and clicks unnaturally contorted into English.

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* The Predator's actual speaking voice is pretty unsettling. After getting beaten by Dutch, it answers his "what the hell are you" question not with its usual mimicry, but with its own ''completely inhuman'' voice. It takes GutturalGrowler UpToEleven, up to eleven, as its voice sounds like a mix of growls, grunts and clicks unnaturally contorted into English.

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