Up From The Depths
I am an absolute sucker for a creature feature / nature gone bad movie. Particularly aquatic beasties. I think this all stems from my total love for Jaws, a movie I will maintain is the best movie ever made (come at me, Goblins!).
Whether it’s the glorious B-Movie schlock of Dante’s original Piranha, the Statham vs. Shark throwback feeling of The Meg, or John Sayle’s sewer terror Alligator. I am never happier than watching an assembled cast of actors doing stupid things near, in or on the water as they get picked off one-by-one.
Alexandre Aja updated Piranha in 2010 to make it a riotous splatterfest. Pure gross-out gore with gallons of blood, eviscerated porn stars and even genital mutilation. Half monster move, half exploitation flick with Italian horror excesses thrown in, it was a great movie for fans of this genre who were in on the joke.
Chomp!
Now it looks like Aja is returning to familiar ground, or rather to familiar waters, with Crawl.
Paramount Pictures is releasing his latest starring Kaya Scodelario and Barry Pepper. The studio blurb gives us the premise:
“When a massive hurricane hits her Florida hometown, Haley (Scodelario) ignores evacuation orders to search for her missing father (Pepper). Finding him gravely injured in the crawl space of their family home, the two become trapped by quickly encroaching floodwaters. As time runs out to escape the strengthening storm, Haley and her father discover that the rising water level is the least of their fears – there are hungry alligators in the water.”
Here’s the trailer:
Shawn and Michael Rasmussen are writers, while Spider-Man’s Sam Raimi produces.
Crawl is released in theatres on July 12th.
