Review: Crawl

This horror thriller snuck into cinemas without much fanfare, and threatens to leave much the same way. That’d be a real shame; at a time when talking loud and saying nothing seems to be the way to go when it comes to thrillers, this manages to be one of the more effective thrill-rides of the year largely thanks to twists that feel earned and scary scenarios that (largely) make sense. (also people get chomped on a lot) When her father (Barry Pepper) won’t answer his phone as a hurricane bears down on his Florida home, university swim team struggler Haley (Kaya Scodelario) drives down to check out what’s up. Turns out, quite a bit: the streets are flooded, there’s no sign of dad in the old family home but a radio’s playing down in the rapidly flooding basement, and you know what else is down there? Alligators. At barely 90 minutes and with pretty much all the action taking place in a grand total of one real location (the house - even when you think you're out, it pulls you back in)...