If they ever do a sequel to this they should call it walk, cause you gotta crawl before you can walk.
Crawl follows a young girl named Haley as she braves a Florida Hurricane to check on her father only to find themselves trapped in their basement with a lot of hungry gators.
Right off the bat i'll say this seems to understand it's creature feature-ness better than The Meg did last year.
That was supposed to be a hard R, Statham even said it was going to be one of the wildest gore fests ever, until some Warner Bros executive must have said "make it PG-13".
But the gore here works, especially in the last half hour with the hurricane bearing down and the action moved to the upper floors of the house.
The movie kinda does for Florida what Psycho did for Showers. Then again, Florida kinda does for Florida what Psycho did for showers.
The movie was directed by Alexandre Aja who made both the Hills Have Eyes and Piranha remakes- amazingly this is his most original movie- but he's very good at creating a foreboding atmosphere in the opening moments.
It's all concept- I doubt there was much of a script here- and the kills that come in the opening hour are all fairly predictable.
The gator looks as fake as the shark did but it jives with how stupid the rest of this is.
For example Haley's dad is actually a crazy sports parent, so much so he gives her crap for a swim meet while she's trying to concentrate on not getting eaten.
Their relationship is swimming metaphors and parental divorce soap opera, nothing terribly interesting.
But we get some quality blood and gore and the movie works in B-grade fashion.
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Crawl follows a young girl named Haley as she braves a Florida Hurricane to check on her father only to find themselves trapped in their basement with a lot of hungry gators.
Right off the bat i'll say this seems to understand it's creature feature-ness better than The Meg did last year.
That was supposed to be a hard R, Statham even said it was going to be one of the wildest gore fests ever, until some Warner Bros executive must have said "make it PG-13".
But the gore here works, especially in the last half hour with the hurricane bearing down and the action moved to the upper floors of the house.
The movie kinda does for Florida what Psycho did for Showers. Then again, Florida kinda does for Florida what Psycho did for showers.
The movie was directed by Alexandre Aja who made both the Hills Have Eyes and Piranha remakes- amazingly this is his most original movie- but he's very good at creating a foreboding atmosphere in the opening moments.
It's all concept- I doubt there was much of a script here- and the kills that come in the opening hour are all fairly predictable.
The gator looks as fake as the shark did but it jives with how stupid the rest of this is.
For example Haley's dad is actually a crazy sports parent, so much so he gives her crap for a swim meet while she's trying to concentrate on not getting eaten.
Their relationship is swimming metaphors and parental divorce soap opera, nothing terribly interesting.
But we get some quality blood and gore and the movie works in B-grade fashion.
If you liked this, check out Craig James Review on Youtube for more