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[Image] When Watching ‘The Predator’ on Blu-ray, Keep Your Eyes Peeled for One of This Year’s Best Easter Eggs
Shane Black’s The Predator is now available on DVD, Blu-ray and 4K Ultra HD today, and now that you can watch it at home, we want to make sure you don’t miss a fun little Easter egg that Black put into the film as an homage to, well, the *original* Predator suit.
One of the biggest “what ifs” in cinema history is that Jean-Claude Van Damme *almost* played the titular monster in 1987’s Predator, which originally looked WAY different. “It looked like a guy in a lizard suit with the head of a duck,” Arnold Schwarzenegger once described the original version of the Predator, which had a dog-like head and backward-bent, reptilian legs.
The costume, which was briefly worn by Van Damme on set, was a total disaster, and production had to be halted while the creature was completely redesigned by Stan Winston.
At the 44 minute, 55 second mark in The Predator (screen-grabbed below), a trick-or-treating kid is wearing that infamous original suit, bright red and looking goofy as can be!
Check out the Easter egg and an original Predator ’87 set photo below, for comparison!
Are you ready to go back?
After a record-breaking box office run and an extended cut re-release, A24 and director Kane Parsons’ Backrooms is heading home to Digital.
Backrooms will be available to rent or buy this Tuesday, July 14.
In the film, Chiwetel Ejiofor stars in Backrooms as the owner of Cap’n Clark’s Ottoman Empire, who discovers a strange doorway in the basement of the furniture showroom. He sets out to explore the mysterious, liminal space, walking headfirst into a creepypasta nightmare.
Renate Reinsve (A Different Man) also stars in Backrooms.
Will Soodik wrote the screenplay.
I wrote in my review, “Backrooms is at once complex and sparse, but never repetitive. It might be set in 1990, but it effectively captures modern anxieties and isolation in a way that frequently makes your skin crawl. While the journey ultimately loses steam by its cryptic end, Parsons’ visual representation of the human psyche disturbs like no other.”
YouTube prodigy Kane Parsons makes his feature directorial debut based on his creepypasta-inspired video series, which debuted in 2022 and has amassed over 190 million views to date.
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