Crawl (2019)

Right now, a category 1 hurricane has been traveling through New Orleans, and movie goers are being treated to a survival horror movie about alligators in hurricanes. The irony is sickening.

You know what's also ironic? Crawl is good. Like, pretty good. Not bad, as so many had thought. If you were expecting GatorNado.. you are in luck, because every dumb monster movie cliche of the past decade is nowhere to be found here. What we do have is a champion swimmer and her father trying to make it out of their basement alive as a Cat 5 hurricane threatens to drown them and a hoard of hungry alligators swarm them. This is survival horror at it's greatest. Nothing seems preposterous about this situation. It's as claustrophobic and tense as you'd want it to be. I was on edge for the entire way through, and Aja doesn't let his viewers off the hook that easily. This is a fun, fun summer movie.