Crawl's reviews
Media reviews
Vulture
'Crawl' is a great example of a simple story exceedingly well-told. It?s a bloody adventure full of teeth-gnawing turns of fortune, mordant wit, vicious gator kills, and surprising tenderness. It?s a perfect horror film for the summer, as much as a love letter to father-daughter relationships.
The Verge
Hit-and-miss horror auteur Alexandre Aja knows how to deliver lean, mean horror action. In a season of mostly underperforming franchise blockbusters, this tiny, trashy film is a fun change of pace.
The A.V. Club
If any one thing holds back this modest, skillfully made potboiler from true B-movie glory, it?s the human drama. It?s pure formulaic pap, but then, so were the emotional motivations of The Shallows and The Meg.
Roger Ebert
'Crawl' offers up an adequately engaging disaster package with storm and gator effects of gripping believability.
The Hollywood Reporter
Accepting the film's own standard of plausibility, thrillseekers should appreciate the brisk pace with which scares, setbacks and possible escapes are delivered.
Indiewire
Moviegoers who want to watch a killer gator movie will get exactly what they want, and Aja keeps the adrenaline pumping all the way through to a dramatic finale.
New York Times
A smoothly efficient popcorn picture... Though Scodelario is spunky and game in what must have been an extremely uncomfortable shoot, the script (by the brothers Michael and Shawn Rasmussen) is airless and repetitive.
The Wrap
The single-minded simplicity of its plotting can at times be an asset rather than a hindrance; in a summer even more bogged down by needless sequels and remakes than most, 'Crawl' is, at the very least, a lean thriller that isn?t based on an existing property.
Variety
'Crawl' has no pretense and not very much range; it?s 'Jaws' set in an old dark house.