Crawl Movie Review

Crawl is a 2019 horror movie directed by Alexandre Aja and starring Kaya Scodelario and Barry Pepper.

The movie begins with the news that there is a hurricane in Florida. Haley(Scodelario) gets a call from her sister, Beth. She is worried about their dad. Haley calls him, but there is no answer. She goes out to his house to find him. She finds his phone. She decides to look in the cellar and she hears music playing. She sees a bit of blood and becomes worried. She finds her dad, Dave(Pepper). He has been injured. She tries to drag him out of the cellar but it is flooding and an alligator is trying to come in. It tries to get her. She hides from it. Her dad is groggy and he tells her that she should go before she gets hurt. She won't leave him. She wants to get to her phone but the alligator drags her off. She stabs it with something and realises that there are two!

She has been hurt so she hides. The basement is filling up with water. She can see a woman outside who is stealing from a shop. She has a boat. Haley shines a light, hoping that they can see her. One of them does, but he gets munched by more alligators. She and her dad spot the police, but they can't get their attention. They eventually get spotted but the alligators get the cops too. Haley and her father find a safe space but they are going to drown if they don't move soon. Her dad tells her that he will distract them while she makes a run for it. He manages to kill one of them. Haley finds to her dismay that the way out is blocked by the alligators nest. She has to try and crawl out through a pipe. This pipe is also the same way that the alligators got in. Hayley manages to secure a gun from the dead cop and she shoots an alligator. She manages to get into the house.

She goes through the floorboards and pulls the dad out. He is barely alive. They look outside. They are marooned. They need to find a boat. They go outside and they try to get to a boat. They get swept away in a big surge. They have to hang on. Her dad gets attacked by an alligator. It rips his arm off. Hayley gets stuck in the shower. The alligator is outside. She manages to lure it in and she gets out and traps it. Her and her dad go up to the attic and they use a flare to kill the alligator. They get to the roof and they sit up there. A helicopter comes and Haley uses another flare to flag it down.

This film was good. I liked the story a lot. The alligators were scary and it was very tense throughout. There was a lot happening in it and there were no dull moments. I didn't hear much about this film which is a surprise because it is a good creature feature and it deserves more attention. I will give it a  6/10.