Several people are shown with gaping exit wounds.

A woman writhes in pain, torso bulging (the camera cuts away just as the Alien emerges). Those critters grow until they eventually burst forth from their living hosts’ abdomens. Newly hatched face-huggers leap onto the faces of their victims and dispatch an Alien embryo into the person’s esophagus. One of the intergalactic hunters slices a “face-hugger” in half, breaks the neck of a newborn Alien, and decapitates and skins a mature one. (We see the man dangling a foot off the ground.) Predators toss men around, hurling one into a deep hole. With deadly aim, a Predator hurls a spear which pins his target to a wall. Just as a Predator slashes at its human prey, the camera cuts away to show blood spatter in the snow. Dead men are hung from the ceiling as trophies. Yet another victim succumbs to razor-sharp netting that bores into his flesh until he is finished off with a spear (blood trickles down the shaft). One man gets stabbed in the stomach by huge, retractable claws which emerge, bloodied, through his back. The Predators’ arsenal includes guns, spears, flying cutlery and more. With a few choice edits and the charity of the ratings board, 20th Century Fox got its violence and its “teen-friendly” label.ĭespite some creative editing that cuts away from gruesome moments in the nick of time, there’s still a lot of brutality to give families pause. The decision to merge these sci-fi/horror properties into a PG-13 film is an obvious attempt to profit from the milder rating. Since 1979, these extremely violent horror franchises have yielded a total of six R-rated hits between them (Alien, Aliens, Alien 3, Alien Resurrection, Predator and Predator 2). Predator isn’t its face-off between slime-dripping, skull-crunching Aliens and steel-taloned, invisibility-cloaked Predators.

Their rite of passage involves battling wall-crawling, acid-spewing, bug-like Aliens spawned for their hunting pleasure by an Alien queen held captive and forced to lay the eggs that, after gestating in human hosts, become their prey. As his team of scientists and archaeologists arrives in Antarctica, so do space ships carrying three Predators-heavily armed, armor-clad creatures who use the constantly transfiguring pyramid as a training facility.

Billionaire industrialist Charles Bishop Weyland funds a polar expedition when satellite photos reveal an enormous pyramid buried 2,000 feet beneath the ice.

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