This past weekend, many Outposters found themselves considering Lewis Teague’s 1980 creature feature Alligator, and it was entirely our fault. If you are a connoisseur of the genre, then you are already aware of Crawl.
Crawl was a great little munch-‘em-up. It understood the assignment completely.
It was produced by Sam Raimi, and directed by the man behind the gore-splattered insanity that was Piranha 3D. So it had pedigree.
It made $91 million worldwide from a budget of just $14 million budget, and reviewed strongly. If you haven’t seen it, it is well worth your time.
Kaya Scodelario and Barry Pepper starred. A Category 5 hurricane causes mass flooding in Florida. This leads to a home being overrun by hungry alligators, first in the crawl space beneath the house, eventually rising with the floodwaters.
A sequel was given the go ahead way back in 2024 with Aja set to return as director.
Raimi gave an interview to The Wrap while out promoting Send Help, and sounded hopeful that it will continue to move forward:
“We’ve been trying to get a go from the studio, and they changed hands, Paramount Pictures did, and now the new group that’s come in I’ve worked with before, the ladies and gentlemen that are great at development, and they’re interested in ‘Crawl 2.’ That’s all I could really say right now, is now I’ve got a new hope to make it.
It’s a little bit, I think, embarrassing to make an alligator in the basement picture. I don’t know if that’s what their lofty ambitions were, but I think there’s a crowd that loves those kinds of films, if they’re well-made and honestly trying to make this suspenseful and scary and get to know the characters, if they’re really trying to do that, there’s nothing to be embarrassed about.
Yes, it’s a B movie, but it’s a blast. I really like that kind of picture.”
Aja may not still be involved, as he just signed on to direct another munchy, chompy movie in the form of a sequel to French shark thriller Under Paris.
