Well, I'm a sucker for movies featuring various types of critters, whether imaginary or real. Movies like Alien, Jurassic Park, Jaws, Lake Placid, and Anaconda. Of course, these come in varying degrees of quality. Crawl is a decent flick, better than something like Anaconda but not even in the same league (really shouldn't have to qualify this) as Jaws.

The story is simple. We have a gal who swims for the Florida Gators swim team who's sister calls frantically because she has not been able to reach their dad as a cat-5 hurricane is coming ashore. Swim gal then goes to find her dad in a house that has a crawl space and is rapidly filling with water. And alligators. A number of them. CHOMP!

The movie is pretty damn claustrophobic, given that most of it takes place in the crawl space beneath the flooding house.

I'm sure someone will chime in with murky or non-existent motivations of the primary characters, but I'll say bah! Survival seems to be the biggest motivator here, never mind how they find themselves in this situation to begin with.

If you like watching movies where something is eating people, this is for you. Otherwise, probably best to skip it, or wait for a late-night showing on some random TV station.

This trailer always gets laughs in the theater here in Florida.

Can't wait

Sam Raimi is a producer, gotta be fun.

So this was good?

DSAg44 said:

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So this was good?

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I thought it was. A serviceable thriller in a claustrophobic setting.

I thought it was great for what it was. Unfortunately, my movie experience was ruined because these jackasses behind me and my friends wouldn't shut the **** up.

Better than classics like Lake Placid?

DSAg44 said:

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Better than classics like Lake Placid?

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I enjoyed Lake Placid, but that one plays much differently than Crawl. Crawl focuses much more on the claustrophobia of its settingof two characters trapped in the crawl space beneath a house during a category 5 hurricane all while establishing terror with the presence of multiple large alligators. LP was far more comedic in its tone.

DSAg44 said:

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Better than classics like Lake Placid?

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Lake Placid is a comedy, Crawl is not.

Good, tense and claustrophobic. I would compare it to The Shallows. It's a very taut film that delivers a good summertime diversion. Every summer needs a film like this.