Predator: 15 Most WTF Franchise Moments (So Far)
15. The Skinned Corpses (Predator)
The original movie makes a ferocious statement of intent from very early on, when poor Billy (Sonny Landham) stumbles across three skinned corpses hung up in the trees, which turn out to be a trio of Green Berets known to Dutch (Arnold Schwarzenegger).
The gore effects are, of course, sublimely grotesque, but more than that, this immediately has the audience wondering quite what the hell did this to a team of hardened soldiers.
And the fact we're left to imagine them being disembowelled and relieved of their skin, rather than it being explicitly shown, makes it all the more horrifying. Plus, it gives Arnie the floor to drop the epic one-liner, "He didn't disappear, he was skinned alive!"
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