Crawl (Blu-ray) [2019] [Region Free]

Heck, this is a good one! A well crafted, taut horror/thriller that stressed me out no end! I was especially concerned about Sugar the dog!Alexandre Aja has always been an interesting director. I enjoyed the bonkers nature of Switchblade Romance (High Tension in America) and the twisted love story in Horns. The cruelty in The Hills Have Eyes remake was a sight to behold and Mirrors was just weird. So I at least owed it to him to give Crawl a go. Glad I did!Trapped by some gators under a house with an external threat of a hurricane, Haley must try to save her injured father before it's too late!For a single location film it flies by! The pace is fast and the script is tight. You can see the Sam Raimi influences with the bits of humour thrown in and listening to him in the bonus features on Blu-ray, you can tell he got a kick out of producing it!The practical special effects are pretty gruesome in a few occasions and the visual effect gators are outstanding at times! Sometimes they don't look so good though.It's well acted by Kaya Scodelario who I didn't know was English! Usually English actors doing American accents stand out a mile because most are awful but she did a great job! Very solid performance. Barry Pepper, who is always reliable, plays her dad, essentially trapped and doomed without his daughters help.The sound design is pretty spot on, the rears light up when Haley is being chased by the gators and the storm scenes outside circle around as if you are in it!I would have liked a 4K release but the picture quality on the Blu-ray is top end. Nice, thin film grain layer so it doesn't look too soft.Overall a well made and acted small horror film and worth a buy on Blu-ray.

Wouldn't take the negative reviews too seriously, this is a great film if you're all about the horror survival type films!

This seemed to be a dead cert...Subject matter - People in peril, and from the loathed (mostly) ALLIGATOR! - Filmed during Category 5 hurricane (newsreel and CGI) - Personable lead actress. So why 3 stars. Despite the very good CGI, the 'gators look so real! and the relentless storm footage, and some "dog in peril" I just could not get into it. The characters failed to grab my heartstrings, and the action scenes did tend to beggar belief. Both characters took serious whacks from said 'gators. She suffers serious leg and arm injuries and even gets "rolled" (a sure sign of no future (I understand), and to add disbelief, she still manages to out swim one of the beasts! Where was the tension that perhaps another director would find and give us. The actors have no script to speak of (no pun intended) so we don't really care. But, I have to say the film looks good, it is relatively short, and Kaya Scoledario does well (I had never heard of her, and was surprised to see how much work she has under her belt. The DVD is good quality - Letterbox (bars top and bottom) good sound and subtitles, with a short "extra "Beneath Crawl"> Worth a go if you like this kind of picture. Filmed in Serbia.

Even though I only gave it three stars, I did actually enjoy the film. Its fast paced with lots of excellent kills by the alligators. Taking this into consideration the two main characters manage to survive several attacks by these creatures. I mean the girl actually manages to survive a death role, defeats the alligator, and swims away with not much damage. In total she gets chomped on three times but still manages to walk and out swim the alligator!! I also think the ending was rather abrupt but hey it was good fun and if you can ignore the robustness of the two main characters then the film is a thumbs up.

I fairly enjoyed this film it isn't an Oscar film or anything like that.The CGI is very good for the budget the gators look goodThe plot is normal for these kind of films