OK, this one is on both Amazon Prime and Hulu, so hopefully many of you could watch it. SYFY (ugh) managed to largely kill my lifelong love of killer animal movies, and many of the theatricals that they poor out–wow, they make a lot of shark movies–aren’t really that much better. Well, OK, they are, but that doesn’t mean much. And I have to admit, I haven’t watched Crawl, which came and went (I think) from theaters last year. But I saw the first 15 minutes and liked what I saw. The movie immediately gets into it. We meet a young woman at a swim meet (quickly establishing her water credentials), and within five minutes we learn there is a major hurricane approaching the area and that her sister hasn’t heard from their estranged father. The heroine defies logic and goes to look for him, and presumably shortly after that runs into the killer gators. It can’t be too much longer later, because the movie runs a lean minus-90 minutes. I always hated how the SyFy formula always included a time-wasting human villain, because actors were cheaper than even dubious CGI. However, I do like when the environment itself is a danger, as in Descent. Anyway, give it a look.
