Hollywood is sleeping on creature features. All it’ll take for audiences to stop sneering at these movies is Ari Aster filming a hive of caterpillars crawling up someone’s nose. But as long as they keep making knowingly unhinged films about sharks and murderous fish, viewers will keep tuning in — ironically, of course. Not too long ago, Netflix delivered a major hit with Thrash, in which Phoebe Dynevor punches a shark in the face during a hurricane. In 2024, the bonkers French film Under Paris captured a similar energy, bottled it up, and threw it in the audience’s face. There was a time when creature features would make a killing at the box office. Remember The Shallows, where Blake Lively is stranded on a rock being circled by a great white? The film grossed over $110 million worldwide in 2016. Only three years later, another creature feature did excellent business at the box office and received positive reviews.
This movie was helmed by Alexandre Aja and produced by horror-comedy maestro Sam Raimi. The film was headlined by Kaya Scodelario, who’d just made an unsuccessful attempt to replace Keira Knightley as the female lead of the Pirates of the Caribbean series. Funnily enough, they’d go on to work together on the 2025 Netflix thriller The Woman in Cabin 10. In the 2019 creature feature, Scodelario played a young woman trapped along with her father in the crawl space of their home during a hurricane. Survival becomes even tougher for them when they’re surrounded by alligators.
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We’re talking, of course, about Crawl. The film grossed more than $90 million worldwide against a reported budget of $15 million — this sort of result would be difficult to replicate today, especially with the emergence of streaming. Crawl received mostly positive reviews and is now sitting at a “Certified Fresh” 84% score on the aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, where the critics’ consensus reads, “An action-packed creature feature that’s fast, terrifying, and benefits greatly from a completely game Kaya Scodelario, Crawl is a fun throw-back with just enough self-awareness to work.” Also featuring Barry Pepper, the film is currently streaming in the United States on Paramount+, but it’ll be removed from the platform on June 1. Stay tuned to Collider for more updates.
- Release Date
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July 11, 2019
- Runtime
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87 minutes
- Director
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Alexandre Aja
- Writers
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Alexandre Aja, Michael Rasmussen, Shawn Rasmussen
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