Crawl (2019)
A young woman trapped in a flooding house during a Category 5 Florida hurricane must battle against alligators in this horror from Alexandre Aja (Piranha 3D, Horns).
- Director:
- Alexandre Aja ('Piranha 3D', 'The Hills Have Eyes (2006)', 'Horns')
- Writer:
- Alexandre AjaMichael RasmussenShawn Rasmussen
- Cast:
- Kaya ScodelarioBarry PepperRoss AndersonGeorge SomnerAnson BoonAmi MetcalfJose PalmaMorfydd Clark
Reviews & comments
Flicks, Aaron Yap
flicksWith each passing year, Jaume Collett-Sera’s dexterous, exquisitely kinetic shark thriller The Shallows looks more and more like a benchmark for how good a modern-day Jaws-styled creature feature can be. Alexandre Aja’s Crawl fundamentally operates in the same zone: a modestly budgeted studio counter-programmer, supplying a much-needed gasp of air from the oppressive maw of tentpole franchises.
Gatorade for the masses
SPOILER ALERT! The Geets (Greats): The main protagonist gives a surprisingly good performance as Haley, who is struggling to cope with competitive Swimming. This is tested in a more primitive situation of 'kill-or-be-killed' where the film does a great job at blurring the lines in defining the 'apex predator'. It brings into context the 'fight or flight'...
Crawl (Official Review)
Crawl is a very thrill packed movie like A Quiet Place and more especially It (2017). I still really liked it but it didn’t really live up to my expectations because most of the movie was pretty boring just the two main characters in the crawl space under the house for like an hour, which was not really needed. I also thought there would be much more action...
Meet the Gaitors....
I haven’t been to a ‘horror’ movie in years so decided it was high time to be scared witless again. Hence I went to see Crawl. It was a bit edge of the seat, but only in the sense you knew what was going to happen…and it wasn’t pretty. I never realised that a person could survive quite a long time after being ripped apart by an alligator, after losing all...
Non-stop action (almost)
Believe the hype, this movie is just what it claims to be. A chilly thriller that happens mostly in a flooded basement, it's very location-based, more Deep Blue Sea than Jaws - like Jurassic Park if they were a park full of crocodiles instead of dinosaurs. Efficiently acted by Kaya Scodelario with support from Barry Pepper.
'Gators in the Crawlspace
You've probably seen your share of predatory-critter horrors that crank the silliness up to 11 and slide down to forgettably naff. Maybe you've seen some that take themselves too seriously and somehow come out more ridiculous. In Crawl, director Alexandre Aja flexes his ability to balance these genre poles: the laughs you're looking for come at the same...
Chomp-tastic
Imagine JAWS with a Florida swamp full of sharks. Now imagine those Sharks are Alligators with an amazing knack for perfect horror / comedic timing. CRAWL is like an old school horror with modern day special effects and production values. A world with occupants that are fully aware they live in a place knee deep in gators, but for plot points and monster...
Gator Aid Required
So snakes on a plane you say, so Sharks in a Tornado you say, hmmm alligators in your house per se....well let's just say I had smugly cast my aspersions as to what type of movie this might be before well before arriving, especially as I had not seen or heard anything about the movie like you normally do before release date. Enter tickets in hand two...
Great jump scare
Loved how there was soo much action and the storyline got straight to the point! It was an awesome twist on a disaster movie. Was not predictable or too cliché, and the father daughter storyline was unique also. Loved how dramatic the attacking scenes were! Surprised how they didn't lose any limbs completely, just a few nibbles here and there. Absolutely...
Gator Goes Chomp
Straightforward thriller CRAWL blew way past my expectations by delivering tight, tense scenes of attempting to escape nature's worst. Not a dull moment in the film. The alligators are extremely well rendered and the gore is not over the top, but believable. The crawlspace beneath the house is exactly right! I have seen a few of Aja's films, and CRAWL was...
Variety
press"Crawl" has no pretense and not very much range; it's "Jaws" set in an old dark house.
Stuff
pressGuilty of revealing its reptile a little too early, Crawl finds itself struggling to stifle audience titters as it attempts to keep lifting the thrills to new heights.
Los Angeles Times
pressWhen it's really working - which is only about half the time - "Crawl" is an efficient and clever environmental adventure picture, set in a nice old house where suddenly nothing is safe.
IGN
pressAlexandre Aja's Crawl is a fun monster movie that relentlessly preys on humans' most primal fears.
Hollywood Reporter
pressAccepting the film's own standard of plausibility, thrillseekers should appreciate the brisk pace with which scares, setbacks and possible escapes are delivered.
Flicks, Aaron Yap
flicksWith each passing year, Jaume Collett-Sera’s dexterous, exquisitely kinetic shark thriller The Shallows looks more and more like a benchmark for how good a modern-day Jaws-styled creature feature can be. Alexandre Aja’s Crawl fundamentally operates in the same zone: a modestly budgeted studio counter-programmer, supplying a much-needed gasp of air from the oppressive maw of tentpole franchises.
Variety
press"Crawl" has no pretense and not very much range; it's "Jaws" set in an old dark house.
Stuff
pressGuilty of revealing its reptile a little too early, Crawl finds itself struggling to stifle audience titters as it attempts to keep lifting the thrills to new heights.
Los Angeles Times
pressWhen it's really working - which is only about half the time - "Crawl" is an efficient and clever environmental adventure picture, set in a nice old house where suddenly nothing is safe.
IGN
pressAlexandre Aja's Crawl is a fun monster movie that relentlessly preys on humans' most primal fears.
Hollywood Reporter
pressAccepting the film's own standard of plausibility, thrillseekers should appreciate the brisk pace with which scares, setbacks and possible escapes are delivered.
Gatorade for the masses
SPOILER ALERT! The Geets (Greats): The main protagonist gives a surprisingly good performance as Haley, who is struggling to cope with competitive Swimming. This is tested in a more primitive situation of 'kill-or-be-killed' where the film does a great job at blurring the lines in defining the 'apex predator'. It brings into context the 'fight or...
Crawl (Official Review)
Crawl is a very thrill packed movie like A Quiet Place and more especially It (2017). I still really liked it but it didn’t really live up to my expectations because most of the movie was pretty boring just the two main characters in the crawl space under the house for like an hour, which was not really needed. I also thought there would be much more...
Meet the Gaitors....
I haven’t been to a ‘horror’ movie in years so decided it was high time to be scared witless again. Hence I went to see Crawl. It was a bit edge of the seat, but only in the sense you knew what was going to happen…and it wasn’t pretty. I never realised that a person could survive quite a long time after being ripped apart by an alligator, after losing all...
Non-stop action (almost)
Believe the hype, this movie is just what it claims to be. A chilly thriller that happens mostly in a flooded basement, it's very location-based, more Deep Blue Sea than Jaws - like Jurassic Park if they were a park full of crocodiles instead of dinosaurs. Efficiently acted by Kaya Scodelario with support from Barry Pepper.
'Gators in the Crawlspace
You've probably seen your share of predatory-critter horrors that crank the silliness up to 11 and slide down to forgettably naff. Maybe you've seen some that take themselves too seriously and somehow come out more ridiculous. In Crawl, director Alexandre Aja flexes his ability to balance these genre poles: the laughs you're looking for come at the same...
Chomp-tastic
Imagine JAWS with a Florida swamp full of sharks. Now imagine those Sharks are Alligators with an amazing knack for perfect horror / comedic timing. CRAWL is like an old school horror with modern day special effects and production values. A world with occupants that are fully aware they live in a place knee deep in gators, but for plot points and monster...
Gator Aid Required
So snakes on a plane you say, so Sharks in a Tornado you say, hmmm alligators in your house per se....well let's just say I had smugly cast my aspersions as to what type of movie this might be before well before arriving, especially as I had not seen or heard anything about the movie like you normally do before release date. Enter tickets in hand two...
Great jump scare
Loved how there was soo much action and the storyline got straight to the point! It was an awesome twist on a disaster movie. Was not predictable or too cliché, and the father daughter storyline was unique also. Loved how dramatic the attacking scenes were! Surprised how they didn't lose any limbs completely, just a few nibbles here and there....
Gator Goes Chomp
Straightforward thriller CRAWL blew way past my expectations by delivering tight, tense scenes of attempting to escape nature's worst. Not a dull moment in the film. The alligators are extremely well rendered and the gore is not over the top, but believable. The crawlspace beneath the house is exactly right! I have seen a few of Aja's films, and CRAWL was...
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