Crawl - BLU-RAY

Back in the fifties we loved creature features. Giant Spiders! Giant Bees! Giant piles of goo! They were awesome. We never gave up our love of those creature features, but technology really helped catch up to make us even more scared (although...to be honest...that giant tarantula in the 1950s Tarantula movie was plenty scary without CGI...lol..). Movies are so many things to so many people, and often the same person can want different things from movies on different days. That's ok, after all diversifying one's portfolio leads to greater riches and - metaphorically - changing up movie genres as a viewer just helps us discover the magic of the movies all that much more. So...creature features. Kinda trashy, disposable entertainment and - like its cousin the Disaster flick - we go into it looking for the creatures to eat (or at least chew and spit out) as many humans as possible. If they do that, and they scare us a bit along the way, than mission accomplished! Crawl does that. It's a short flick that doesn't waste time getting to the point that it knows its viewers want to see. Mean, giant alligators chomping on humans left, right and center. Take that humans! You're gator chow! It remembers its roots as a horror film and is a bit more intense and scary than some of your other creature features over the years (Anaconda...I'm looking at you...still love ya though). Crawl is for alligators kinda like Jaws was for sharks - it is a legitimate threat. After Jaws we got such awesome shark flicks as...sharknado, 47 meters down, the Meg, etc. Of course Jaws pretty much started the bad shark movie trend with Jaws 3-D and the roaring shark masterpiece that is Jaws the Revenge. Alligators got such fine works of cinematic art like...Lake Placid. This movie is NOT Lake Placid and it is NOT Jaws. But it's closer to the latter (good thing) than the former. It isn't a masterpiece of pacing and character building like Jaws, but it is a great creature feature with some decent, legit scares (even at home) and not appropriate for younger kids (yah kids, shoo...go watch Dora the Explorer by Michael Bay...heh heh heh). If you like mean creatures chomping deserving humans...highly recommended. If you don't...well...still highly recommended! LOL

Having said that, it is a very claustrophobic movie. Alot takes place in a cellar that seems to go on forever. Once again we have our heroine Kaya going out of her way to get herself into trouble. As most do in these movies she heads into the hurricane. Dad is missing. Anyway, this is more of a 2 person and 1 dog movie. I am not counting the gators. Aside from that it is an okay movie and has some predictable moments. Barry Pepper and Maya do a fine job. This is an okay to watch movie so just enjoy.

I have to agree with Quentin Tarantino, this movie was my #1 creature-feature of the year. I love monster movies (Tremors, Lake Placid, Predator, The Thing, etc.), but recent ones have really dumb characters who can't think on their feet or have pretty terrible lines. The characters in this film were made to be pretty smart in terms of decisions made and dialogue, and the situations they were put in left me on the edge of my seat all the way till the end. Definitely do not regret this purchase.

Like Australia, Florida is a place full of creatures that want to eat or kill you. Crawl definitely demonstrated that alligators are not fun to be around, especially in a hurricane. Why any one would live in a house next to a lake full of alligators is beyond me. There's isn't much plot to the story. Gators plus hurricane plus two people trapped under an old house--which is (not so) slowly filling up with water. Yikes! There are gator-rific jump scares aplenty.

starts off a bit slow and makes its way down your skin at how creepy it turns to be. Its about a storm that strikes florida hard and well water rising means the alligators are roaming about. A girl and her father are trying to get out alive from this mess. It does have some exaggerated moments and well they don't take from the movie and make it unwatchable. very very good in my opinion, the movie is gory as well so this is a no for the kiddos.