Kevin Peter Hall (The Predator) 'Predator (1987)' Behind The Scenes 

very true i dont know why, is it nostalgia?

So true

Very true, just like the first Alien from ‘79

Absolutely.

@Tariq Waseem and the hunted being the best elite military personnels you can find on Earth. Dutch being the sole survivor of his unit at the end showed how difficult to bring the Predator down.

And Peter Cullen made the predator sound otherworldly and terrifying

Agreed 100 percent

Yes Definitely, his Movement was PHENOMENAL. True Class, He MADE That Part Work.

Also, he was originally considered for a part of Super Shredder in _TMNT II: The Secret of the Ooze._ Only recently _Kevin Nash_ said that the costume was meant for KPH himself.

This movie is pure and nostalgic. I wish I could get my money; well I wish my parents could get their money back; when we all went to see the last one a few years ago.

What's the matter? The CIA got you pushing too many pencils

@@BlueWhaleBoy I wish I could go back in time and (re) see it the first time!

The music was also terrific

@@gricius Alan Silvestri composed it, as well as the Back to the Future movies!

There’s other Predator movies?

@@kweller3117 Yes..where you been at? lol. You got Predator 2 that came out in 1990, you got Alien vs predator that came out in 2004, than you have Alien vs Predator Requiem that came out in 07, than you had Predators that came out in 2010 and than you had the last one (The Predator) that came out in 2018. Its a shame they couldnt get Alien vs predator right since that was a big promotion in Dark Horse comics for years. The only one I like out of the rest besides the original is Predators. Now Shane Black, who starred in the 1st Predator, he directed "The Predator" that came out in 2018. Now if im not mistaken..his idea for what he wanted to do with that movie as far as the script is not what was produced. And he was ticked off by that. He wanted the movie to be an "event" and bring it back to that suspense/horror/sci-fi that made the original great. So basically..we didnt get the predator movie that he wanted to make

I love all the predator movies. Hope they don’t stop making them

Shawn Williams -- I think he was joking

I don't know why Alien Vs Predator is so unpopular. It's all monster fighting and you get to see Predator display human intelligence when he helps the heroine.

I knew he died but not what of. That's a tragedy of epic proportions. Imagine going in for routine surgery and coming out with a death sentence.

@@muskokamike127 Man I know. It's unthinkable.

@@Programm4r There were many when people up here in Canada started catching HIV from blood transfusions.

There's nothing routine about surgery performed to save car accident victims, least of all in '85 when Harry & the Hendersons was being filmed. Contracting HIV from blood transfusion was relatively common in the 80s and early 90s, because we didn't have a good way to detect HIV in donor blood. He managed to live 6 years after contracting HIV which for the time was quite a long time. Thankfully today HIV isn't a death sentence.

Man that's sad 🥺

How did he die?

@@simoiltaylor7351 AIDS-related pneumonia

Wow

​@@simoiltaylor7351It Was Pneumonia

A legend? He’s been in two films and didn’t show his face. Nobody knew him. He was a nobody

That does make sense. I always thought the later movies made the predators move more stereotypically brutish. Hall's predator seems more agile and moves with finesse.

He did a phenomenal job in predator 2 too. He really made predator 1 & 2 a force to be reckoned with.

@Ricky Prickles I'm not sure that "nobody has ever been able to replicate" K.P.H.'s "elegant way of moving".... i mean.., Andy Serkis. ....?

@@cammo777 He's referring to portayals of predator characters in subsequent films.

I never connected Ballet with the Predator "stance" ( Ballet is art and fluffy Predator is the scariest "monster" I seen on screen) but wow Kevin Peter Hall bridged 2 complete opposites and made movie history. even in the set parking lot when he is moving about as the Predator in costume I would have ran the other way KNOWING it is just a movie, That guy crushed it on every level.

Ikr

And the only Harry The Sasquatch😍😍😍💪💪💪💪

Yup.

@@roberte.miranda6122 u mean Harry & the Henderson's?

@@armcollector6660 obviously that's what they frickin meant. ..DUHHHH! !! Sheesh don't be such a twat.

@@cammo777 I'm being a twat for asking a question well isn't that something either way I got my answer but thank u for your reply & being the ass that ur!!

I think one aspect that we are more attached to movies like this is because there is an actual physical being in there which you can somewhat relate to compare to let's say a million dollar special effects it's amazing to the eye but you know it's just computer generated. It's in our conscience to analyze thing.

Damn straight

Absolutely

predator 2 was pretty good too

No shit, Sherlock !

He was also Harry from Harry and the Hendersons.

i notice a lot of people who get into these full body suits back then things didnt end well.

Agreed

Jean Claude couldn't handle it, and he was a pretty decent athlete. Huge props to Kevin Peter Hall.

@sam onella .... tell your teacher they're a moron. The original person who had the part was a "caucasian". Kevin Peter Hall ended up playing the part because he was better. He was also a very fine human being. Perhaps your teacher has an unconscious bias to racism for thinking it's racist to begin with.

@@merisonola and he succeed to launch his career with the lie that he actually worked with Arnold.

@David T It's in my top 5 coolest loudest movies ever especially if you got to see it in a theater back then.

hmm you see not much action , on other movies how on predator 2 you see more predator and on avp you see more gimmicks items and co

@David T The sound design was awesome.

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The second movie with Danny Glover was pretty good too. The rest of the franchise is just “grind ‘em out” hack.

true, something is missing with newest sequel of predators. the gesture of the hunter that describe that they are hunter are kind a missing. the body langguage of Kevin did brought the hunter come to life, giving it a character than just a monster~

A friend of mine, an artistic genius worked for Winston on this film in our senior year of high school, but our high school would not let him take the weeks off school to go on location. He also worked on Beetlejuice in our senior year (both were 'after-school jobs' lol). Through him, I got to meet several of the FX artists who worked on this film, as well as several more who he worked with on later films. Unfortunately, I had/have the artistic ability of a garden gnome, so I could only live vicariously through him, and not work with him, but I am happy for my friend's success in the industry, and a few of the people he worked for and with, a few who went on to win Oscars in effects.

Ever see Harbinger Down? Good practical effects from Alec Gillis.

Well put Paul

Thank you, Paul. Wish everyone could realize that color (ethnicity) and character are 2 different things. Maybe hateful people could stop stereotyping.

@@sylvialawrence261 I didnt even thunk about that until you made the point. Great people don't need a label. Oh I support Trump also. If people stopped bringing up race, we can get past it.

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I saw this movie in Hawaii in 1987 when it was released. I was stationed in Kaneohe Bay. This movie was not available locally, I had to drive basically to the other side of Oahu to the North Shore to see Predator, and I was glad I did, what a movie👍👍

Was he in his Predator costume at the time? I'd love to see Arnold's face as he got into the helicopter. LOL

That's kinda poetic

@@bluemarbel1242 no he was not in a costume

@@bluemarbel1242 hahaha

Oh really ? Hahaha 😅

The movements were brilliant which made Predator iconic. One of my favorite movie of all times and Blade.

On par* with Peter Weller in Robocop. 👍

I agree 100% and Kevin was an athlete,too-so he knew how to use his size and how to be fast for his size.

@@BlueAlien1313 I see you have good taste in movies blade was the best marvel movie hands down i also liked hellboy 2 the golden army very good movie aswell.

@@brandonrice1124 that is a good one. I own it!

agreed, thats why some jason's and some myer's are better than others

💯 agree, Kane Hodder is Jason voorhees!!! 👍

Agreed for sure

Did he die at 36? Not very old..

@@octavius8562 WTF are you talking about dickhead? Get off the drugs!!

@@octavius8562 It isn't old at all. He died young.

@@NathanChisholm041 He got HIV from a tainted blood bag and in the late 80s and early 90s that was a death sentence (he died in 91).

@@nerofl89 wow. 🌹 A lot of good people were taken too soon by that virus. The modern pandemic that a lot of people still ignore.

It's not just action...it's also a mix of sci-fi, horror. I also like the bautiful landscape (jungle, forest). The cast is badass. This movie is special (at least for me).

me and my best friend growing up woul do a weird ass joke of marking every charater in the movie as someone we know in like predator for our dumb asses was not free from that to make good laughs with eachother and inside jokes

They broke out the minigun while hoofing it through the jungle... Definitely a true action film lmao.

That is the scale we balance. Good looking dude too.

It seems like good guys play the best bad guys.

@@BlueAlien1313 gay

He's not alien. He's predator.

@@celospiky329 but predator is alien.

Still scary as, decades later great great film making.

They do make films this good now...oh wait

What a great experience it must have been to be The ONE Predator - The ORIGINAL.

When I was a kid in the 80's I was so excited when I watched Predator for the first time. I was so WOW, especially in the ending when the Predator revealed itself...total badassery. Forever a classic.

@@MLCrow I watch it with my sons now:)

He was also Harry in Harry and the Hendersons

I remember watching the credits to find out how the predator was.

And we all had nightmares. :-)

What a great guy, one of if not my favourite movies of all time. Handsome articulate great actor this guy had it all RIP KEVIN taken way too soon ❤

I agree ///I went to see predator when it released in 1987 in theatres////the good ole days of going to a cinema

Imagine if you didn’t know the movie and saw it out in the forest!

@@goobytron2888 NOPE

@Karl with a K When? 1987?

@Karl with a K 😆

Big dude.

@@erwino8618 he had a sister too not sure what height.

He wasn't 7'2. Not with an amazing personality like that. More like 12 feet tall😏

Wow! A family full of giants. A whole basketball team.

Gentle giant.

He played on 227 a few times too

He also portrayed the alien in the super scary movie, Without Warning.

I don't know. Fried green tomatoes was pretty crazy.

common do it

chuck norris films are better

@@Brian-tx1pq LMFAO!

T2 spits out drink “Am I a joke to you?”

Well said. Then you get the actor who played the predator in the turkey 🦃 Prey. And basically he moves like ……… a human. Shocking. I only seen clips of Prey and they are enough to put me off watching the entire film.

@@kevinheath6812 great movie Bruh, check it out.

I agreed, the gesture is missing. the body langguage that describe the Predator aren't just a monster, they are hunter. but new generation of Predator didn't show this much body langguage. now they often move like an arrogant human being or simply monster than hunter.

@@coolhand1966 maybe a good movie but terrible Predator movie. I didn't watch the film, but seen enough to stay far away from it.

@@hadesdescent6664 "I didn't watch the film" - but you know it's terrible from the trailers - nuff said.

💪😎

Gone too soon. He is and always will be The Predator. I also think he did a marvelous as Harry in Harry and the Hendersons (1987), Prophecy (1979) as the mutant bear monster, and of course the Monster in Monster in the closet ( circa 1986-1989).

@maxx schooler yep

I still can’t believe the same guy played Harry and Predator. He had a phenomenal gift for breathing a totally believable alien life into life forms that don’t exist.

So nice, that somebody thinks off that! :-)

1. They used CGI in the original Predator 2. CGI is not bad. Bad CGI is bad.

Ain't got time to bleed

Imagine the smell inside that thing. Hope they had different ones during the duration of filming 😂😂😂

RIP? - Блять. ;(

@@Burglarnet Kevin Peter Hall died from aids from a blood transfusion in 1991.

@@Bnat36 Only 4 years later. Wow.

That just sums up and agrees with my philosophy..... live life like you’ll die tomorrow but plan you finances like you’ll live forever 😬😬😬

@@duderoony but he died of AIDS, i believe he has living like there was no tomorrow......... : S , he said he got it from a syringe, ( i dont know under what circumstances )

yea

Nahh subjective

Brite lights lol

A kid? I had a hell of a time as an adult!

@@user-tj3wr6dj4d - " BIG CITY ?" LOL

And it wasn’t mind controlling like it is now with the smart phones............I truly believe that a lot of younger people are developing artificial forms of autism and ADD from these devices.........anyway PREDATOR was an masterpiece!

I've lived through 60 years and today world is in the toilet.. 50s,60s,70s,80s, even early 90s very good, after 2000 forget it..!!!

I saw it when I was 8 (1988) it was pretty scary at that age. Woodpeckers put the fear of the Pred in me back then for a while.

"We're all gonna die.."

Billy was the second scariest character after the Predator 😁

"If it bleeds, we can kill it!

Agree!

From Harry and the Hendersons

wait predator is a bad guy????

@@learningtolivewithhumans1859 only on earth. on his planet he is a legend hunt warrior!

@@KevinC2916 haha i know iv have built many of them 🤭 i was being funny and iv never looked at him like a bad guy! He just fights and kills bad guys, pluss bad guys dont leave women and children and unarmed men alone 🙊 you say bad guy i say he is my hero,

@@learningtolivewithhumans1859 😁. of course . I just tried to enhance the joke.

Never see it again, big men like Kevin Peter Hall are overlooked for shitty graphics. G'Day from shithole w.a. australia

Predator came out in 1987 you fuckin doorknob.

all the fake u used to see wasnt fake, today all u see is an illusion

@@licensedtoill9278 i suggest to watch "superior firepower" the behind the scenes of aliens movie, there u can also see how marvellous was the job done to create that movie, u can find it for free on utube

Agreed, they should have used suits for the new TMNT movies as well.

Exactly, now tell NASA that.

@Mox Fulder Yeah but movies dont have the GEM/ SPARK like they used to. Movies today are boring af and unorginal I personally prefer movies recorded in actual locations. Just looks better man.

@Mox Fulder Yeah but it's crap

CGI is not the problem.Bad CGI and CGI in movies with bad scripts and bad acting is the problem.

@@JR-ju3kj you just described 97% of all CGI scenes

I did not know that till now

Learn something new everyday 👍

Great movie haha

Loved that movie!!!!

He played the midget Nick Nack in Bond also.

Im gutted didnt know he had died.

@@harrykeane1380 29 years ago

Exactly

Reminds me more of the Engineers in Prometheus.

@@WALDENSOFTWARE oh yeah, that giant creepy dude. Saw that movie once about 9 years ago. As I recall they wake him up and he seems cool, untill he starts killing the crew members lol

@@HA-cm3kg I just saw the trailer, lol.

@@WALDENSOFTWARE whoops, spoiler alert 😏😂

Aurora?

True

Terminator 2 is classic status too

Predator 2 rocked?....no?

@philz2002 i'd go 4/5 but yes i agree

@philz2002 Thats definitely a good score system there....lets see if you agree with this one....First Blood 6/5?

@philz2002 Jesus Man!!! its my absolute favourite....so close between choosing this and Predator....you gotta watch it tonight sir...honestly

@Mirsad Redzovic He was involved in a car accident and received a blood that was contaminated with HIV. He died of pneumonia.

Yeah really messed up what happened. Almost seemed like a set up

@Mirsad Redzovic It happened back then. The legendary Sci-Fi author Isaac Asimov died in a similar fashion. Blood transfusions tainted with HIV while undergoing surgery.

Arthur Ashe became the first (and remains the only) African American male tennis player to win the U.S. Open and Wimbledon singles titles. He was also the first African American man to earn the No. 1 ranking in the world and the first to earn induction into the Tennis Hall of Fame. Always an activist, when Ashe learned that he had contracted AIDS via a blood transfusion, he turned his efforts to raising awareness about the disease, before finally succumbing to it on February 6, 1993.