8 Movie Deaths So Gruesome They Had To Happen Off-Screen

7. Death By Predator €“ Predator

The team of soldiers in Predator are so solid they're probably impervious to bullets. Indeed, their entire reason for being in the jungle other than looking awesome in green is that they came to locate a Central American rebel hideout, and then subsequently kill everything in it. Needless to say, they succeed. It's a scary thought, then, that something exists that's hard enough to kill these guys. One by one, we witness the Predator - that's a creature inspired by the picture of a Rastafarian warrior hanging in producer Joel Silver's office - offing Dutch's (Arnold Schwarzenegger) elite unit in various gory ways. With an exploding head here and a newly-caved chest cavity there, Arnie's boys get a rough ride from the crab-faced mercenary. But one Pred-i-kill we don't see is of Native American tracker Billy. As he just seconds before manages to slice into his own chest with a machete without making a sound, the off-screen screams of the taciturn grunt as the extra-terrestrial beast ends him suggests it's a truly terrible way to go.