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lionfloss · 1 year

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Crawl (2019)

#sorry but this movie FUCKED #and I love kaya forever #crawl 2019 #crawl #movies #alligator #kaya scodelario #alligators #underwater

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hesawifebeaterdanusethegun · 5 months

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Currently watching Crawl (2019), this movie never gets talked about but it was super fun, and Sam Raimi produced it!

#crawl #crawl 2019 #sam raimi

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fyeahgothicromance · 1 year

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Finally getting around to watching Crawl (2019), a movie about alligators attacking people during a hurricane in Florida created by people who did little to no research on a) alligators, b) hurricanes, and c) living in Florida

#that storm is too calm to be a cat 5 #and those gators are not lazy enough #crawl 2019

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spockvarietyhour · 7 months

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Tonight's movie

#Crawl #Crawl 2019 #Title Card #Danny watches Crawl #horror movie month

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medusas-daughter · 1 month

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I'm on a Kaya Scodelario rabbit hole because I've been in love with her since I was 15 and the hyperfixation took hold of me again and I have to say she's incredible in Crawl 2019. And the reviews for Crawl are so funny to me cause on one hand, people who know things about alligators and/or Florida have a lot to say about the realism. On the other hand, people who don't know much about either of those things think it's a great horror movie. Up until I was like 12 I thought Florida was fictional, so I did enjoy the movie and got all the scares I'm looking for when watching horror. I also know jack shit about alligators so I had zero thoughts in my brain other "oh big chomp" or "of fuck oh shit oh fuck"

#kaya scodelario #crawl 2019 #horror #movie review

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pb-dot · 4 months

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Film Friday: Crawl

There's a subgenre of movies I've come to appreciate a lot, and I have no idea what to call the thing. These flicks tend to fall in the supergenres of horror or thriller. They usually feature a person with a Problem, some unresolved trauma, or a source of stress in their lives who get trapped with some source of physical danger that functions as a metaphor for the above. It's your 127 hours, The Shallows, Fall, and today's movie Crawl. Peril Therapy is perhaps a name that fits, but I'll have to think it over. In the meanwhile, why don't we take a look at this here alligator hell one young woman finds herself trapped in?

Haley is struggling with her swimming results. After getting an athlete's scholarship, her results are now plateauing, and she fears she might be at her limit. Haley will, however, have more immediate concerns when a conversation with her sister sends her to look for their semi-estranged father, who has gone radio silent in the middle of a nascent hurricane hitting his Florida home. Once she seeks him out, she finds her father, unfortunately, this also sees her trapped in a flooding basement with her dear papa and at least one unusually large alligator. It's now up to the two to work together against the reptilian predators to get the hell out of dodge before they drown and/or get eaten.

Like many movies of its ilk, Crawl's exquisite tension is about managing the geography of its main location. The flooding cellar gets cut off from the rest of the world when a plus-sized gator bursts through its wooden stairs, and a support beam near the floor makes it a croc-free sanctuary that is unfortunately far enough from anything useful that gator interception is a very real problem, especially after one of the chompy hissing boys take a bite of Haley's leg. While more details are revealed as Haley's very divorced dad gets his ducks in a row and starts working the problem along with his daughter, there's a very palpable tension that the movie carries for its opening act. Will Haley manage to get her phone and get back without becoming gator chew? Will she even be able to reach anyone who could brave the hurricane and the ornery crocodilians to save her in the first place?

This isn't to say it's all about geography of course. The quietly brilliant part about Crawl compared to a lot of these movies are that there's actually two people trapped together. This is fun thematically because making the peril a metaphor for an ongoing relationship instead of grief of a dead loved one or infidelity or general malaise does lend the whole situation some immediacy. You don't have to wait for Haley to discover her desire to keep on living because she's got to get her dumbass dad out of there. and while Dad does take a bit more prodding to get there, he at least knows he has to get his daughter out of this alligator feeding pit somehow.

The relationship isn't quite as quietly powerful as in, say, A Quiet Place, but it's entertaining and engaging all the same. We get a dive into a relationship gone stagnant because of unspoken assumptions and poor communication as both father and daughter have to reclaim who they are and who they are to each other to get out.

Make no mistake, this movie isn't exactly cerebral. It does some fun character work to which both Kaya Scodelario and Barry Pepper give their all, but the main draw is gators being scary, as well as delivering Slasher Style thrashing violence on bit part characters. There's a 80's era slasher bent to the violence, treading that fine line between upsetting and humorous that, for example, Friday 13th Part 6, danced so expertly on.

In short, Crawl is a lot of fun. The gators are scary in that "nature strikes back"/"humans are no longer on top of the food chain" way that large predators on film often are. There's also a lot of drive to the main relationship between Haley and her father, and the way it matches the brisk pace of the movie in general really makes it feel fun, even though the subject matter is a bit on the heavy side.

#film friday #Crawl 2019 #peebs reviews

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mymoviewatches · 1 year

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ᐢ..ᐢ - Crawl (2019)

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★ Ratings ★

✩ Personal Rating: 6.2/10

✩ IMDb Rating: 6.1/10

#crawl #crawl 2019 #2019 #horror #thrillee #horror movie #movies #movie #film #films #the ex flopped lowkey #i wouldve stopped watching if the dog died #the dad is hot i fear

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phoenixwatchesmovies · 4 months

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What I'm Watching: December 2023

Not a lot on the roster this month. Got a new job that's a lot less stressful but also leaves me with a lot less free time. Figure that one out. Anyway...

Crawl

Big ass alligators! It turns out I know too much about gators to maintain immersion in a horror movie featuring them (they're ambush predators and therefore unlikely to chase you, for one thing), but this was still fun. One of those movies made more entertaining by watching with a group, because jump scares don't get me but it was great seeing everyone else freak out over them. The plot is straightforward, the subplot is solid and relevant, and the ending knew when it arrived without trying to overstay itself. AND THE DOG DOESN'T DIE! I WAS MORE SCARED FOR THE DOG THAN ANY OF THE HUMANS, AND SHE MADE IT! TAKE THAT, SNAKES ON A PLANE!

The Love Boat

Ok, so, while I do enjoy classic TV Land fare, I'll admit I wouldn't have started this one of my own accord. I'm just not a boat person. *shoves Titanic hyperfixation under the rug* It makes for good casual viewing, tho. I'll give it that. No overarching plot to keep up with, and it's consistently stacked with guest stars to keep things interesting.

Freddy's Nightmares

.............so, there's casual viewing, and then there's this. XD I'd say this is meant more for fans of the ANOES franchise than random viewers, but if you're expecting the quality of the movies to carry over to a TV spin off, don't. Let's get that out of the way right now. I won't say it's so bad it's good, because what's bad about it is nearly unwatchable. But what's good about it, is pretty good. Some of the stories are hella dark, you never quite get used to how many recognizable guest stars pop up, and you get more Freddy (which was kinda the point). If you can make it past some very questionable acting in the first few episodes, you'll be fine.

Happy Feet Two

PENGUINS!!!!! That's the main draw again. And I enjoyed it! Most of the original cast is back, the animation is on the same level (how often does that happen with sequels?), and while the scope of the story feels downsized compared last time, the story itself doesn't. The focus is less on finding one's place in their community and more on community itself. It was a different vibe, but it worked for me. And the climax of the whole thing used one of my hands down favorite songs, so this movie was basically meant for me. XD

Now, to go back over this year's findings and pick my favorites. Happy new year! 🥂

#watch a thon 2023 #crawl 2019 #the love boat #freddy's nightmares #happy feet two

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maroonghoul · 7 months

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Horror Movies I watched: September 2023

Final bunch until I start my real big annual marathon! Here we go!

Night of the Demon (1957) So this is where the plots we've seen popularized in ones the Wicker Man and Drag Me to Hell came from. Personally, I prefer those, but probably because they were made in a time audiences could handle the leading man losing. Most of this movie is this smug know-it-all jackass mocking people for their religious beliefs pretty much. I'll admit, his final gambit to switch the curse back onto the main villain was a maneuver that would make Columbo proud. Though I still don't know what Karswell's whole plan outside of his demon hitman was.

Speaking of which, as iconic as that design is, it hasn't aged too well. The far away shot is the stiffest puppet ever seen, and even the closeup shot is...honestly, adorable. The most effective shot of it is near the end when it's tearing apart it's last victim. The claws not withstanding, it's head is in darkness with it's eyes glowing and you actually see the tearing even from a distance.

Though that was probably the key to it being one of the more effective horror films of the decade. Most times, the monster has to die or reveal to be secretly good. This is a demon, with no good bone in it's body, and it "gets away". Sure, the only real punishment it could've gotten is being chased away by a priest or an angel or such, but even that doesn't happen here. The devil is real. Demons are real. We might've escaped them this time. But by our own wit, not God's. If He is even real.

Side note, if I knew there was a Halloween party in this, I would've waited. Eh, close enough.

Christine (1983) It's surreal watching this after Halloween Ends. Sure, I think I've seen reviews saying that movie felt more like a remake of this movie plotwise. But now I see what they mean. Granted, the themes were handled with a bit more nuance in that film. I don't know; it's weird seeing a sequel to John Carpenter's most famous movie is used as a "backdoor remake" for one of his lesser known ones. It's at least a more interesting idea to handle a Halloween movie then a lot of the previous ones.

As for this movie; I never liked the 1950s. Even before and without knowing the awful political, racist, sexist shite that happened during it, I thought the aesthetics associated with it (cars, fashion, music, attitude, etc.) were the ugliest of any decade in the 20th century. Good ole days, my ass! The amount of similarities and homages to it in the 1980s were strikes against that decade too for me, in a weird guilt-by-association way. So it's oddly comforting that during a time where people, all the way up to the white house, were thinking "boy, don't you wish we could go back to such a time?", Both Carpenter and Stephen King made works that were responses in the fashion of "No! What are you, crazy?!"

But yeah, this does feel to me one of Carpenter's lesser efforts, not surprising since he practically saw it as a work for hire. It's a pretty typical King story, given a Carpenter coat of paint. I wonder if King gave him shit for being the second director of one of his adaptations that didn't redeem it's main character at the end. You wouldn't think the directors of book adaptations would make them more cynical then the produced-for-less-people source material.

Relic (2020) This film needs to be studied. by film scholars and then by students in film schools. It established a threat, a horror, that is unique to this movie, but you can follow what it's supposed to symbolize, and get a good handle on what it's doing in-universe to the grandmother. All without a single line of dialogue of exposition!

I really am so tired of films expecting to explain every weird thing in it, that I'm starting to love it whenever one just trusts you enough to get it and not raise arms about the small details that don't actually make or break a story. This is why the past few years have been seen as a golden age of the genre. It trusts us.

Another sidebar. Houses that turn into a magical maze that keeps you trapped might be one of my new fascinations. Simple, but super effective. I've seen it before in Grave Encounters, I heard it's in House of Leaves, which is on my reading list. It doesn't scare me, but I find oddly captivating. Got to try and figure out why.

Crawl (2019) If I covered Alligator, I'm going to have to cover this one. Though there's not much to say. A half hour of building mystery and tension, then once the gators literally explode onto screen, it's about surviving them and surviving them only and then credits. Not sure those many regular gators would have that strong a hankering for human flesh but whatever. Credit where credit's due, this movie made me jump the most out of any in recent memory. So it pretty much succeeded in it's main mission. Also, happy the dog made it, but it must've been miserable being wet for like 90% of the shoot.

Swallow (2019) Well this is new; body horror being the lesser of two evils. Hell of a pro choice message; "I'd literally feel safer putting anything else in my body". Many uncomfortable moments throughout, not all of them involving what she put in her mouth (though that freaking push pin!). Honestly, it's great to see a movie commits to that even the most egregious of supposed attention-seeking self harm is a symptom of a much larger problem. And that a film can be feminist and violent while actually looking pretty feminine. Though you probably all know that. We've all seen Barbie at this point.

I'm also watching Hot Fuzz. I'm not going to count it but I am watching Shaun of the Dead next month so I might mention it there.

Next month is the big one. Wish me luck and stay safe!

#christine 1983 #Relic 2020 #Crawl 2019 #curse of the demon #swallow 2019

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fluffyselfships · 3 months

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how my brains been for the last couple of days

#pr0sh!p dni #i forgot i took him off my list ages ago bc i didnt think abt him that much anymore #and then he came crawling back into my frontal lobe #and now he wont leave me alone💀#not to be baby but like #really feeling like how i did when i first started shipping w him back in 2019 #i hate how soft i am #(no i dont)#f/o #self ship #self insert #self shipping #selfship #🪲beetlebun🐰#🪲lovebug🧃#mod bun🐰

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exoid-the-locomotive-monarch · 21 days

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Seeing the Dannypocalypse reminds me how old classic nicktoons are and how young me and my sister really are.

So if I get this correctly Danny Phantom premeired on Nickelodeon on April 3rd 2004.

Well, I have a sister, she was born on the ides of March 2004.

She is older than the cartoon by 2 weeks, and that’s wild seeing how popular a cartoon is to this day that when it made its debut when my sister was just opening her eyes for the first time.

#danny phantom #dannypocalypse #well to be fair Inwas born in October of 2002 #I’m pretty sure I’m as old as Season 3 of Spongebob #I’m younger than Super Mario Sunshine by like 3 months.#And I missed 9/11 by about 395 days #but I have a cousin who was born in 2007 #imagine being younger than the wii lmao #anyways she goes to a Catholic high school now.#she’s 16 and a half years old.#bitches born in 2008 be like i’m 16 no stupid go back to Kindergarten.#bitches born in 2019 be like I’m a kindergartener bitch crawl back up your mother’s womb #bitches born in 1964 be like I never experienced segregation like okay grandpa #bitches born in 1944 be like ohhhh im having a hawrt attack. im fucking dying i see the light Wanda I’m coming

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archivehornets · 1 year

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The original Kickstarter page for the Season 3 Marble Hornets DVD. Included are descriptions of the reward tiers, and various factoids about its production, as well as additional projects that were funded through it. Last updated in 2019.