"I would say it’s cautiously plausible. Perhaps it’s stretching it a bit, but it wouldn’t be a horror movie if it didn’t."
Cue the ominous music, the tension rising, the audience wanting to jump out of their seats. But it’s too late, the giant monster chomps down on its next meal.
Survival thriller “Crawl” premieres July 12 and combines Florida’s most well-known clichés: hurricanes and alligators. It tells the story of Haley Keller (Kaya Scodelario) and her father, Dave (Barry Pepper), who ignore an evacuation notice during a Category 5 hurricane as the water rises and their home floods.
The real appeal of the movie, however, comes from the appearance of giant alligators hunting and attacking vulnerable human prey, causing more terror than the storm and creating the perfect nightmare situation.
But how seriously should we take this?
James Perran Ross, emeritus wildlife biologist at the University of Florida and expert on alligators, said the trailer shows something “a bit fanciful” but may be loosely based on truth.
Read more at the Sarasota Herald-Tribune