Chompy creature feature is the savior of summer horror

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

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

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

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

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...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.

If you are the kind of person who, upon hearing that Crawl is about a daughter trapped with her gravely injured father and giant aggressive alligators in…

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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 ...

The film is more straight-faced than Alexandre Aja’s prior work, trading absurd kills for narrow escapes from gaping alligator jaws.

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...

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.