Chompy creature feature is the savior of summer horror

Alexandre Aja’s Crawl is more than a movie about a young woman trapped in a crawlspace with a giant alligator in the middle of a hurricane, it’s a shriek...

At one point in “Crawl,” a grim yet snappy little thriller about killer alligators bringing an estranged daughter and father closer together, the actress...

Director Alexandre Aja delivers a fast-paced, no-frills movie that brings relentless intensity

CRAWL Review—The Best “Stay Out of the Water” Summer Horror Movie Since THE SHALLOWS

Kaya Scodelario and Barry Pepper battle alligators in Alexandre Aja and Sam Raimi's survival horror. Read the Empire review.

…an enjoyable swampy romp...

The creatures are expertly rendered in Alexandre Aja’s film

Alexandre Aja brings an exciting if less- than-watertight script to life with a minimum of fuss, plenty of flair and just a few eye-rolls

Alexandre Aja's Sam Raimi-produced 'Crawl' pits a woman and her father against a hurricane and more alligators than you'd care to count.

The alligator-based horror could really do with some sense and structure to go along with all these earnest emotions

Brisk, businesslike and puckishly funny, Crawl is an enjoyable and admirably uncomplicated B-horror.

Alexandre Aja's aquatic monster movie is strictly by the book, but not devoid of purpose.

Review: Alexandre Aja’s latest horror-disaster mash-up sees him back at the top of his game

...lends credence to the claim that you should never give up on a director.

It doesn’t take long for the “when animals attack” thriller “Crawl” to give the audience what it paid for.

The director of Piranha 3D goes back into the water for this alligator-based creature feature starring Kaya Scodelario.

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Kaya Scodelario carries Alexandre Aja's creature feature about a swimmer trapped in a flooding basement by a hungry alligator

While Crawl never quite achieves the classic status of ‘Jaws,’ it’s so convincing that you forget about the mechanics and become petrified by the gore.

Crawl is an old-fashioned B-grade monster movie madewith 2019 technology. In short, that means plenty of gore and jump-scares to goalong with creatures that ...

Crawl offers up an adequately engaging disaster package with storm and gator effects of gripping believability.

It didn’t much urging, but Peter “Jaws” Benchley had to teach us to be afraid of sharks. We don’t any such prompting, or hit novels or movies, to be ...

'Crawl' works best when it lets its primal instincts take over and turns Kaya Scodelario into a survivalist-horror scream queen. Our review.

Just in time for hurricane season, a reminder that’s it’s not just the water you have to worry about, it’s what’s in the water, too. In this case, a ...

Set in Florida during a hurricane, this B-movie from the director of Piranha 3D delivers just what you might expect.

Gators and crocs have always been poor relations to the shark in the hierarchy of natural horror beasties. Maybe it’s because of those dumpy little legs, o...

After forays into horror-comedy (Piranha 3D) and dark fables (Horns), New French Extremity director Alexandre Aja comes full circle with straight-forward, gn...

A review of Crawl, a killer animal movie starring Kaya Scodelario and Barry Pepper, in theatres everywhere on Friday, July 12, 2019.

In a Hollywood obsessed with brands and genericism, there is something admirable about a movie that has nothing on its mind other than delivering 87 minutes ...

If you’ve seen ‘Midsommar’ and are thinking, “I’m not done having the crap scared out of me,” then you could do a lot worse than Alexandre Aja’...

In a season of mostly underperforming franchise blockbusters.

Alexandre Aja feels like a hack-for-hire in this uninspired saga about alligators tormenting hurricane survivors

A hurricane traps a father and daughter in a flooded basement with two alligators in a film that wants to be "Jaws" in an old dark house.

A film about murderous, hurricane-rattled reptiles grants us one of the season’s most memorable horror heroines.

Crawl is a sensationally thrilling aquatic nightmare filled with carnage, bubbling chaos, and all the creature-feature intensity that makes this a must-see.