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Welcome to the kill count where we tally up the victims in all our favorite horror movies. I'm James A. Janisse
And today we're looking at predator 2 the city-based sequel the predator that came out in
1990 predator 2 has a few things in common with the original for instance
It was written by the same pair of brothers Jim and John Thomas
The music is by Alan Silvestri again, and although this film city hunter predator is a new individual
It's once again played by Kevin Peter Hall
But the differences from the original are much more
noticeable namely Arnold Schwarzenegger has been replaced with Danny Glover and the lush foliage of the jungle with the ugly streets of Los Angeles in
fact a lot of this movie is ugly from the clothes that everyone's wearing to its portrayal of
Civilization since everyone's packing heat and ready to get into a shootout at the drop of a hat
Predator 2 is often mocked as an awful movie and you know what?
That's fine. It is but it's also batshit crazy enough to be a fun kind of awful
I mean hell, it's got a voodoo gangster drug lord Gary freakin Busey and ridiculous lines like this one
Which means you're cutting off my dick is shoving it up my ass
What more evidence do you need the cool thing about predator 2 is that we get to see a lot more of the predator
Who's a total badass all of the time. Again, Thanks. Stan Winston with a city full of people the murder
I'll bet the body count is high. Let's find out how high get to the kills
The movie begins in the jungle only we ain't talked in Central America
Maybe we talk in the concrete jungle of Los Angeles in a fictional dystopian
1997 has evidenced by these first Predator POV shots
The dreadlocked hunter has already found a home in the city that currently looks like a frickin warzone
See and to be fair. This was made during the Powder Keg period of LA that led to the Rodney King riots
So not too far off
honestly the first cop we see lying in the street isn't dead just injured during the shootout between the
LAPD and this Colombian gang named Scorpios led by this long-haired fellow L Scorpio
we do get four kills to kick off the count with all cops who get shot by the gang members and fall down dead or
Are wheeled away dead on a stretcher this time
I'm not gonna count these stunt actor flip boys because they're in body armor
And I think they'd be okay a sleazy reporter played by the sleazy Morton Downey jr
Says the situation is not going well for the LAPD a gun drop man out man
They're even outnumbered and out plan. Good thing here comes the Harrigan LAPD lieutenant Mike Harrigan. That is played by Danny Glover
He enters the fray and runs up to join his partners detectives Danny Archuleta and Leona Cantrell
They've been trying to protect the injured motorcycle cops lying in the road
Harrigan is happy to break through the Scorpios defense line by hanging out of a police car as he drives it up to the gang
Members it's ridiculous
but I'm happy that Glover gets to be more rigs than Murtaugh for once the Scorpios are scared off by arrogance crazy antics and as
They retreat back inside to their hideout. One of them is shot and killed by Leona with that open shirt and gold chain
I'll just call him. Mr
GTA cuz that's what he looks like as the surviving Scorpios gear up with guns and powder their noses
Another cop is added to the list when a bunch of gang members shoot him off of his rooftop
position Harrigan gets revenge for the nameless officer when he routes the gang members dug in like a bunch of
California tix and opens fire on them killing all four that were standing there
Don't get on me about how you see five bodies on the ground when he's done that fifth one belongs to mr
GTA from earlier arrogance told by Danny that they have orders to stand by and wait for a special unit to arrive
But Harrigan is a cop in a 90's action movies
So you know
We ain't about to be following orders when they get inside al Scorpio backs out of a room firing his guns at something and ends
up turning his Uzis onto a random cop in the hallway who is shot killed and added to the list o Scorpio flees to the
Rooftop where he's being watched by the predator and aimed at by Harrigan after he follows him up there
But when a spook tau L Scorpio sees the cloaked predator and goes to fire at him Harrigan opens fire on O
Scorpio and shoots him straight off the roof. I don't know for sure
But I'm assuming the stunt was actually done by all Scorpios actor Henry Kingi a veteran stunt performer
his body winds up down below on the sets crafting table back inside the detectives find the rest of el Scorpios gang dead in their
Hideout alongside a massive stockpile of weapons as they check out the crime scene and wonder what the hell did this they see four bodies?
And reasonable positions and one hanging upside down from the ceiling. Oh and is he naked too?
That sounds like the calling card of a predator waiting for Harrigan outside his deputy chief of police
Hyneman an old friend of his who's gone brass
He yells at Harrigan for disobeying orders to stay outside
Since the situation was supposed to be handled by these feds who all bought the same generic federal agent costume from Halloween USA
They're led by this Buddy. Holly looking dude named Keyes played by Gary Busey
Of course who meets Harrigan back at the police station he explains
Why is there who were attempting to prevent King Willie's voodoo gangs from taking over and controlling the entire West Coast?
Oh, okay to stop a voodoo gang from taking over an entire coast of the u.s. Got it in Harrigan's office
Danny points out the newly transferred officer in their unit detective Jerry Lambert played by killcount veteran Bill Paxton
Doing his whole Bill Paxton
Shtick dialed up to 11 his goofball and gets him a nut grabbed by Leona after he doesn't leave her alone
Harrigan is skeptical of Jerry's talents too. Suspecting him of just being a showboat
But I guess the unit's a unit welcome to the war and cut to the LA
skyline and a couple of push ins on a graphic sex scene through the window
It gets interrupted by some Jamaican gang members who storm in and start the scene with three kills after they assassinate the security guards
Who are outside of his bedroom the Jamaicans are led by this dude gold-toothed and are here for Colombian gang member ramon. Vega
Who they hang upside down from the ceiling?
Naked while they hold his lover hostage also naked after prepping this dead meat with some barbecue sauce
saying a line that the predator must have overheard she
Slow dude stabs right into Vegas chess. Apparently he also rips out his heart
Although we don't really see that done to explicitly that's because into the scene steps
Predator who opens fire on the Jamaican gang and kills the whole lot of them using a variety of predator tricks after the initial shoulder
Cannon blast he uses a new neck gun to pin a dude against a wall and that guy ends up getting shot by his own
buddies
he sends a spear head for jet tile straight through the Hat and head of another dude and uses his blade gauntlet to stab a
fourth guy with a reverse facing Dillon maneuver
the last Lackey is killed by another one of predators new weapons this
Telescoping spear after all this henchmen are dead gold tooth steps out to face the now visible predator on his own only to get killed
In a zoomed-in POV shot that actually has a nice little joke in it
When you notice that predators thermal vision doesn't quite register gold
Tooths go to nice Harrigan gets to the crime scene
Only to be told yet again that their orders are to stay out of it yet again
Harrigan's a rogue cop who doesn't play by the rules and they go up to the penthouse where they enter to find the bodies hung
up and skinned in classic predator style
They even replicate that close-up jump scare from the corpse of Jim hopper in the original
They also find Vegas paramour who the predator left alive since this chick wasn't even armed with any clothes
Harrigan surmises that a new 3rd gang is responsible for both this scene and the Scorpio massacre down town
But as they're looking at clues in the form of the spear tip weapon lodged in a vent way up high the feds walk in
With a whole bunch of bright lights and take over the scene Keyes tells Harrigan that if he gets in his way again
He'll make him disappear which you don't want to hear coming from a federal agent later that night
Danny returns to the crime scene on his own to check out that spear tip
They saw I'm still not sure how that got up there
We saw the deaths take place and the one with the spear tip was not traveling in an upward trajectory
But who am I to question this space alien hunter movie in any case after he retrieves it who would show up but mister apex?
himself, imitating Harrigan's voice he heard earlier
The predator catches Danny as he falls and then pulls him up out of the ceiling and the movie itself by killing him off screen
Danny's a
Friendship bracelet or whatever falls to the ground and gets blood drizzled on it from a ketchup bottle by the looks of it upset over
Danny's death Harrigan assaults Keyes for information but is told that this whole thing is way above his pay grade the constant
What you did with his way over your head next he seeks out this lady. Dr
Richards for help identifying the weapon that Danny was trying to retrieve but when she examines it using the mother superior of all computer
Technology, she discovers something shocking. This material doesn't correspond to anything on the periodic table
That's uh, I mean that's pretty unlikely if you know like science, but whatever man it's science fiction
I'm down to roll with it kind of like how Harrigan is down to roll with these Jamaican gang members who pull up in a
Zebra top caddy with a frickin smoke machine inside. You want some gun. Come on
Yo, if you ain't gonna hit it Mike
I bet predator would take a tow and he's already high as hell the Caddy takes Harrigan to an alley where he meets with the
Leader of the Jamaican gang King Willie to find out some information on who killed all the gang members and his Danny Boy
King Willie's a voodoo man and tells Harrigan that whatever's afflicting them is from Tuoba side, and I'd take his word for a Mike
He's got a Jaffar staff
that's really all the info Harrigan gets before Willie tells him to go on and get and after he leaves Willie gets a visit from
The predator who jumps down and stops through an alley puddle in a pretty cool shot
Which is followed by another cool shot that shows predator in the reflection doing jazz hands
After one cloaked warrior pose and some chants from King Willie. We cut to the gang leaders
decapitated head wearing a visit of terror
The king is dead long live King
Predator predator takes that skull and cleans it off real nice then adds it to some sort of decorative stand
Whoo, Harrigan goes to a cemetery and visits
Tandy's gravestone to grieve while the kid runs around playing a classic game of Skorpios and Jamaicans
He runs into predator who analyzes his face and then his weapon and determines him to not be a threat
So the kid tries to make friends with him, but some candy. Oh, god, please. Don't tell me predators about to learn that phrase
Come on, don't you think that's a little creepy put some candy. Never mind. It's very creepy
Maybe don't make your character named predator run around asking people if they want. Candy Harrigan calls up his team to talk copshop
And dr. Richards tells him that Danny's body had traces of a slaughterhouse on it
So Harrigan tells Leona and Gerry to take a subway to meet him in order to avoid being traced by Keyes
You don't want gary busey following you, you know on the subway Gerry and Leona see a bunch of Nair
Do whales harassing some women and trying to mug a guy who's just sitting there?
Probably trying to do some crosswords dude pulls a gun out on them
Then one of the gang members pulls a gun and then like everyone on the sub
pulls a gun the cops joined in - and now
Everybody's a prime target for the predator who attacks the train from above busting through into the car and knocking out all the lights
This was another particularly annoying scene to kill count
but my
painstaking efforts resulted in a count of nine
first is this gang member who slashed by 'pretty boy and thrown into Leona next is the gang member with a real Cuban flair to
His attire who also gets slashed by predator
Another gang member is grabbed by the throat lifted up and presumably choked to death a fourth is thrown through the subway window as it
Zooms along the tunnel and the last is shown with the bloody throat for civilians joined the count as well
Including the guy who was gonna get mugged after he unwisely walks through no man's land and three of those armed folks who are killed
during predator vision by him just
grabbing them
I guess as Leona leads all the other
civilians to save her carts on the subway Jerry tries to take the predator on by himself using all his ammo on him and eventually
Grabbing a corpses knife. He's rewarded with the creepiest last words. You could ever hear
With that Jerry is killed since we hear a scream echo through the tunnel and Leona confirms the kill after the train stops
And she sees his body hanging upside down from the ceiling of the subway car predator that appears in front of her and grabs her
By the throat but when its thermal vision detects a little bun in the oven
She's apparently spared since Harrigan finds her being rescued when he arrives
Maybe everyone who attacks predator should pregame by strapping a bunch of babies to themselves
Harrigan heads down to the subway tunnel where he sees from a distance the predator ripping out Jerry's skull and spine and
Tossing his body aside
He follows him back up to the surface then pursues the predator in his car and he even gets a good look at the alien
Climbing up the side of a building before his pursuit is cut off with a truck smash
It's the feds and after they abduct him out of his car and take away his gun
They march him into the back of a trailer that has a hi-tech Death Star door too bad
You got picked up before you saw the best shot in the movie
Harrigan the predator standing on top of a building with this spear and skull
Decoration getting freaking zapped by lightning and just taking it like a total G god damn predator. You're so fucking cool, dude
Geez walks up to Harrigan wearing a Devo costume and for whatever
Reason just starts blabbing all about the predator to him even mentioning the events of the first movie
Oh and look
There's a cameo from Anna on one of those monitors do when Harrigan doesn't seem to understand. He spells it out for a fucking
Even though Harrigan is not reacting appropriately
to that reality
altering news
Keys
continues and tells them they've set up a trap in a slaughterhouse that the predator keeps coming back to for food their plan is to
Capture the alien and learn from it cheese heads inside the slaughterhouse with a bunch of other dudes who are also wearing Jiffy Pop foil
That should make them invisible the Predators infrared vision
Harrigan stays back to watch them on monitors inside the trailer and I'm sure he'll follow orders this time and just stay out of it
Predator comes inside the warehouse and isn't fooled for a second by the shady shake he senses
He quickly realizes that he can't see anyone else inside. So he switches his vision to a mode that lets him
See the flashlight beams that keys in his men are using Harrigan realizes that things are going tits up
So, of course he defies his orders and with one knee to a crotch and a gun to a head
He heads out to go help the dudes inside, but you know, they dead dear viewers
So let's get him on the kill cow predator drops from the ceiling and kills three of Keyes's dudes
Immediately with his spear impaling them and tossing them off the walkway
Ha predator now you're gonna have to go get those when it's trophy time for the last guy
He takes out his bomb ass shoulder cannon and lines up the shot with his laser pointer
Then kills the dude with a single blast to the chest whose house Fred's house
Now the only one left his keys but his predator lines up a shot on him a big explosion
Happens behind him because Harrigan has entered the arena
He's actually still gets a face full of
Plasma or so it seems cuz this doesn't kill him as we'll see in a second
And now we begin the Harrigan predator cat-and-mouse fight that will literally take up the last 30 minutes of this move first
They shoot at each other between a bunch of me and then run through the hanging carcasses like they're an obstacle
@dz discoveries out here again
eventually shoots predator a bunch of times in the fishnets and gets him down on the ground and he takes that opportunity to
Damascus folks really not sure you want to do that dude. This thing is gross
It's like a deep-sea fish guy hit with an ugly rudder together. The two of them recite Arnie's famous line from the first movie
The reawakened predator tosses Harrigan aside and is all ready to kill him when out jumps keys guess who's back
He's blast predator with his frost gun thing
but predator gets out of range and takes out another cool new weapon the smart disc this thing may not have a
Facebook app on it
But it can cut through meat carcasses and Gary Busey like nothing as it shows when Kees gets cut in half behind some meat
I'm not sure what happened to his upper body
I feel like it should have fallen to the floor
but these movies don't have the best track record when it comes to consistent death effects Harrigan takes the fight to the roof where predator
takes a huff from his mask and eventually gets tackled off the edge by Harrigan who somehow
Manages to cling to the side of the building predator says one of his new favorite phrases - herring and shirt
Then shows how his entire fucking species consists of poor losers since he beat boots on his wrist pad and activates a
self-destruct sequence
just like the one in the original day before it can go off though Harrigan grabs the nearby smart disc and severs predators arm with
It sending the alien down the side of the wall in a really great stunt where performer Dave Smith actually fell down a 13 story
building for it Oh also apparently that's not the
self-destructing predator grabs a pipe that comes undone and sends him across the alley into a random apartment bathroom using a mixture of
Drywall and I don't know blue juice. He cooks up a self that looks like a Heisenberg special and uses it to heal himself
meanwhile
Harrigan gives chase by climbing down the building wall and across the alleyway on those pipes the predator busts out of the bathroom and runs
Out the front door of the apartment. He was in and the woman who lives there acts way too glib about the alien
She just saw when Harrigan shows up and pursue. I don't think
Harrigan follows the predator to the elevator shaft where he grabs a cable and begins to climb down
but when the elevator cart starts up Harrigan winds up falling down the shaft and through a hole into darkness where he eventually
Lands on a motherfuckin alien spaceship dawg! wait a minute
This thing was parked under an apartment building and accessible by elevator shaft
This movie's fucking bonkers y'all Harrigan carries the smart disk into a big chamber where he finds the Predators trophy case
Which is full of all sorts of skulls including King Willie's and hoe my god. It's a xenomorph skull fuck
Yeah, dude, and also one that kind of looks like a dinosaur Harrigan ends up getting netted out of nowhere
But luckily the smart disk can cut through it
then the big showdown
Finally takes place for real and even though predator manages to land a swipe on Harrigan the last laugh goes to danny glover
After he stabs the alien with the smart disk right in the belly, then repeats his own favor taunt back to him
With that he rips it out of the predator who gives a blood-curdling scream
That echoes around the spaceship halls and it's sub elevator parking before the predator. Finally falls to the ground dead
You may think Harrigan is done
But as he goes to leave a whole lot more predators show up and surround him and we're talking about some different predators here all
with their own unique masks designs
The lead Preds got great dreads and is known as grey bag, and he's also played by Kevin Peter Hall
Also totally random but in my research
I found a video of all these predators dancing on set click in the corner to check that shit out because it is just delightful
The other Preds grab the city hunters body and cloak themselves as they walk away
But before he leaves gray back shows that game recognize game and tosses a pistol to Harrigan
a pistol
1715 that is one dope-ass parting gift and a cool
Indication of just how long predators have been predator the ship starts shaking
so Harrigan gets out of there just in time to avoid the big fire blasts behind him that sends them flying through the air the
movie ends with a bunch of cop cars pulling up to the ash-covered
Harrigan who has surely got to be feeling too old for this shit right about now did this film city hunter nab more kills than
His jungle bound brethren from the original let's find out and get to the numbers
Predators so cool, man
*DIES*
There were 45 deaths in predator 2 so no not even close to the original in terms of numbers the victims
consisted of 43 human males one human female civilian on the subway
And of course the City Hunter predator he has son get that try pie
With a runtime of 108 minutes we wound up with a kill on average every 2.4 minutes
I'll give the golden chainsaw 4 coolest kill to King Willie
It's not entirely on screen, but they do a nice edit with a scream for it
Plus his skull winds up on a shrine alongside of Xenomorphs
That's more than any of us could ask for and after all machete for lame his kill will go to Danny
Pulled up onto the roof and killed off-screen
I think the ketchup bottle drizzle of fake blood at the end here looks really really bad and that's it
Predator 2 is an absolutely insane movie and although it did okay at the box office
It would be 24 years before we got the third civil installment of the series
I'm talking about 2010's predators, which I'll cover next week. But until then I'm James A. Janisse This has been the killcam
Thanks a lot for watching. This week's kill count today
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So why don't you leave a comment telling me what your favorite predator weapon is
He's got a lot of them which one's your favorite which ones cool
I'll go with the simple on the fucking shoulder cannon dude with the laser eyes set. Like that's fucking cool
It's that thing right there. He's got LED lights
Alright be good people