{"id":22796,"date":"2019-07-23T20:55:31","date_gmt":"2019-07-23T10:55:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/?p=22796"},"modified":"2019-10-23T21:19:24","modified_gmt":"2019-10-23T11:19:24","slug":"crawl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/?p=22796","title":{"rendered":"Crawl"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Director:\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>Alexandre Aja
\nWriter:\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>Michael and Shawn Rasmussen
\nCast:\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>Kaya Scodelario, Barry Pepper<\/p>\n

I<\/span> love a good gator movie.\u00a0 They’re one of my favourite subsets of the monster movie genre.\u00a0\u00a0Rogue, Lake Placid, Alligator\u00a0<\/em>(R.I.P Robert Forster), you name it, I’m there.<\/p>\n

Crawl<\/em> is a fine new addition to the gator horror pantheon.\u00a0 It’s short, sharp and brutish.\u00a0 At 87 minutes, it’s not going to be impolite and take time out of your day.<\/p>\n

Haley Keller is a\u00a0University of Florida student who excels at swimming (handy).\u00a0 She is warned that a Category Five hurricane is bearing down on the State and there are orders to evacuate.\u00a0 Haley gets concerned when she can’t reach her father Dave and after a quick detour to his house which is empty, she eventually finds him at the old family home in Coral Lake.\u00a0 Only Dave is unconscious and near death as he’s been attacked by some ferocious alligators that have arrived via an open storm drain.<\/p>\n

That’s the set up.\u00a0 And that’s pretty much your movie.<\/p>\n

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All bets are off in\u00a0Crawl<\/em> because there’s only really two characters in the movie – the dad who has been mauled to bits before you even meet him and Haley who unexpectedly gets chomped on by an alligator maybe 20 minutes into the film.\u00a0\u00a0That’s<\/em> how tense and dire the situation is and it doesn’t really relent from there.<\/p>\n

In a movie of this kind you generally don’t have the luxury of spending too much time on characterisation so its great when you have actors like Kaya Scodelario (Skins<\/em>) and Barry Pepper (too many legendary performances to list) who are inherently likeable and can communicate plenty with body language and a few words here and there.<\/p>\n

There is the occasional side character who gets introduced – hapless police officer, hapless looter etc. – but none of them last more than a couple of minutes before being pulled apart by the gators who are also uniformly excellent with their performance.<\/p>\n

I like the lean and economical way Alexandre Aja has shot and constructed this film.\u00a0 There are only a couple of locations.\u00a0 There’s nothing superhuman about the gators.\u00a0 We just understand that they are naturally lethal creatures in the water and Aja gives great clarity to the audience what Haley and Dave need to do to escape from them.\u00a0 The thrill is watching the execution of their game plan and biting your fingernails when it goes predictably pear-shaped.<\/p>\n

Crawl<\/em> is an excellent, well put together survival horror.\u00a0 Enjoy!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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