“I see a way out!”

From Crawl.

After losing her latest swim meet, Florida college student Haley Keller (Kaya Scodelario) is already in a bad mood when her older sister (Morfyyd Clark) calls and asks if Haley has heard from their estranged father, Dave (Barry Pepper), in light of the major hurricane that is about to blow across the state of Florida.  Haley grudgingly decides to drive down her father’s condo, where she only finds the family dog, so she decides to check their old family home see if her father is there prepping for the storm.  Against the protest of her sister and police officers (including Ross Anderson and Jose Palma) who are trying to evacuate the rapidly flooding town, Haley drives closer to the storm looking for her father.  When she arrives at the house Haley searches the house but doesn’t find him until she faintly hears his radio playing in the crawlspace below the house.  As the storm rages outside, Haley finds her unconscious and injured father and while drying to drag him out, discovers that they are not alone in the crawlspace as several ginormous alligators have found their way in through an old pipe.  Unable to get to the stairs, Haley and her father are trapped in an ever-flooding basement with only a few large pipes keeping them from the gators.  Trying to outsmart the monsters so they can escape both the animals and the coming hurricane, Haley and Dave are stuck in a deadly game of cat and mouse unlike any other.

This disaster/monster movie is so terrifying in part because the premise is not unrealistically far-fetched, and the limited cast and small sets only increase the feelings of desperation that the audience shares with the main characters.  While there are a few jump scares scattered throughout the film, the several gory attacks make it a truly thrilling experience.  Scodelario in her lead role as the unsuspecting heroin that refuses to quit coupled with impressive CGI monsters will keep audiences on the edge of their seat from start to finish.  Even with the anticlimactic ending Crawl is a must-see movie for thrill fans everywhere!

| Rated: R | Running Time: 87 minutes |Genre: thriller/disaster/monster |

||Family Viewing||Cursing: 4* of 10|Nudity: 0 of 10|Sexuality: 0 of 10|Gore: 8 of 10

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