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Crawl
2019 87 min Serbia, United States of America R 18+
★6.5
Horror, Thriller
Director: Alexandre Aja
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Description
When a huge hurricane hits her hometown in Florida, Haley ignores evacuation orders to look for her father. After finding him badly wounded, both are trapped by the flood. With virtually no time to escape the storm, they discover that rising water levels are the least of their problems.
Budget:
$13.5M
US Gross:
$39.01M
Worldwide:
$91.54M
Starring
Kaya Scodelario
Actor
Barry Pepper
Actor
Morfydd Clark
Actor
Awards
5 nominations total
Key opinion
Crawl is widely regarded as a taut, effective survival thriller that excels in creating claustrophobic tension within its disaster-movie framework. While critics and audiences are divided over the film's reliance on familiar genre tropes and the quality of its CGI, most agree that the focused runtime and strong performances anchor the experience.
| Production | The claustrophobic setting of the flood-filled basement effectively amplifies the constant sense of dread and entrapment. | |
| Runtime | The film’s lean runtime keeps the pacing tight and avoids the narrative bloat typical of the creature-feature genre. | |
| Acting | Kaya Scodelario delivers a convincing, high-stakes performance that anchors the emotional intensity of the survival scenario. | |
| Production | Opinions on the CGI are split; some find the alligator effects sufficiently immersive for the low-budget thriller, while others view them as distractingly artificial and poorly rendered. | |
| Screenplay | The screenplay is divisive: some praise its straightforward, effective use of disaster-movie clichés, while others criticize it as predictable, thin, and lacking in originality. |