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It’s raining, it’s pouring, the old alligator in the basement looking to bite your head off is snoring…and he brought friends! This week on The Rotten Horror Picture Show we head down to the pan handle to do a deep dive into the murky waters of the best giant alligator movie of 2019, Alexander Aja’s Crawl!
When a massive hurricane hits her Florida town, young Haley ignores the evacuation orders to search for her missing father, Dave. After finding him gravely injured in their family home, the two of them become trapped by the rapidly encroaching floodwaters. With the storm strengthening, Haley and Dave discover an even greater threat than the rising water level — a relentless attack from a pack of gigantic alligators.
Join Clay, Amanda, as they open the flood gates on Florida gators (both school mascot and literal), plumbing as a superpower (which one’s the wet wall??), a “perfect” dog, Florida man–multiple Florida men), “just a flesh wound!,” a face-full of spiders, and of course some soggy questionable parenting!
It’s been a minute since the world has seen a good movie about giant, man-eating animals on a rampage, and leave to the twisted minds of Alexander Aja and Sam Raimi to fill that void! Crawl is the perfect B-movie; it has a solid, simple premise that it wrings every last ounce of rain water out of, and still somehow manages to get even better in the third act. The water keeps rising, and so does the tension, in this simple-but-effective throwback monster movie.
So put on your flip flops, break your own speed record, ignore that massive, gaping, trauma wound on your leg, and go for a dip with us…if you dare!