Crawl: Alligator thriller produced by Sam Raimi could be sleeper hit of summer
It’s being called a ‘wild ride’ and a ‘creature feature classic’
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Your support makes all the difference.The first reactions are in for the year’s most nailbiting and fun-sounding horror film.
Paramount Pictures has finally screened Crawl, a film that follows a young woman (played by Kaya Scodelario) who, while trying to save her father (Barry Pepper) during a Category Five hurricane in Florida, finds herself trapped in a flooding house with nothing for company but alligators.
Going by the first reactions to the film that’s been produced by Sam Raimi, it seems like cinemagoers are in for a hell of a ride.
Collider called it a “wild summer thrill” that’s best watched in a packed cinema, while Moviefone called it the “an ingeniously realised creature feature” and “the horror movie of the summer” (apologies to Midsommar).
You can see the best reactions below.
Crawl – directed by French filmmaker Alxandre Aja (The Hills Have Eyes remake) is in cinemas in the US on 12 July and will be released in the UK on 23 August.
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