After some early hype, Paramount Pictures has just released the trailer for Alexandre Aja‘s (High Tension, The Hills Have Eyes, Piranha 3D) thriller Crawl, wherein Kaya Scodelario finds herself trapped inside a flooded house during a massive hurricane… a house that has become filled with both water and deadly alligators!
The trailer looks like several great movies from the past, mixing elements of Rogue and Burning Bright – in which a Tiger is trapped in a house during a Hurricane – with that of Deep Blue Sea, Into the Deep, Bait, Open Water, The Shallows, and many others. There’s the promise of gore, not only in the footage, but with Alex Aja behind the camera, and the action looks nonstop. There’s also a kicker dropped right in the middle of the footage when Kaya’s character discovers several hatched alligator eggs – will Crawl also harken back to James Cameron’s Aliens?! Goddamn, I need this right now.
The buzz words were flying in like a hurricane at CinemaCon where Paramount Pictures debuted the first ever footage, calling it “bloody and chaotic,” and likening it to “47 Meters Down meets Jaws.” It sounds like they got to see a bit more than us, but it only gets me even more excited. What are your thoughts?
Produced by Sam Raimi, Crawl arrives on July 12.
