Any film that contains animals preying on humans, especially those who occupy the water, are inevitably compared, somewhat unfavourably, to Jaws.
In the case of Crawl we get something that really does try to be its own thing. The premise is simple and stress-inducing; a daughter and her father are trapped in a basement with marauding alligators during a violent hurricane. It’s the perfect elevator-pitch movie and what follows over the course of the film is everything you’d expect and want, with a good dash of ridiculousness added to the mix.
The CGI is blended well with the animatronic alligators and the gore at times is shocking and wince-inducing. It’s good old meat-and-veg horror at its finest, and refreshingly high in quality which sets it apart from the Horror Channel or movies4men.
3/4
