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Things You've Noticed After Many Viewings.


After destroying the compound, Billy is walking away still laughing at Hawkin's joke when he suddenly turns around like he sensed something was there. In actuality, he heard the Predator. If you listen closely, you can hear the Predator mimic Billy's laugh. Billy heard it but wasn't sure if it was an echo (which was on his mind thanks to Hawkins) or something else.

The landmine Mac sets up to trap the Predator is the same one he and Blaine disabled at the compound.

The rattle sound that Hawkins hears right before being killed is not the Predator. It was actually a rattle snake. Snakes can see in infrared, and it probably saw the Predator and could sense that it was a threat. We are shown a snake in a tree just prior to Anna running, and while it might not have been the same one, most likely there was another nearby.

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Snakes can see in infrared

Wowz, I was about to call bullshit , but then googled it ......

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Yea but I noticed all those things after my first viewing of this

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Two interesting points.

The ‘rattle snake’ theory is BS though.

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On the other hand, I had not seen it for a long time and was surprised at how graphic the skinned and hanging human bodies scene is. I didn't remember just how gruesome it was, but then again I didn't see it at the cinema or on such a big screen before. I'm sure this scene would have been edited a bit for the UK version (I heard it is missing things like Billy having his skull / spine ripped out).

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Many rewatches of movies for me were on TV, channel surfing. Sometimes watching the full movie unedited, changes some scenes

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Nope, the UK version was always an uncut 18.

It will have been cut on various TV versions but the cinema and video versions were always uncut.

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