Yes, 5 out of 10. It's a creature feature in a flooded crawl space, with jump scares and almost nowhere to stand.
🐱THE SCARE SIGNAL
SCARE SCORE
5 /10
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DREAD LEVEL
Low
It is over when the credits roll, though you may check how high your basement floods.
DOG
Dog: fine
fine, Sugar makes it.
Ruling: It is a good rainy-night pick, as long as you are fine with alligators in a flooded house.
Crawl runs eighty-seven minutes, and a good share of them take place in a crawl space under a house in Florida. A hurricane is flooding the street outside, and the alligators have moved in under the house.
The premise, briefly
A swimmer ignores the evacuation order for a Category 5 hurricane to check on her father, and finds him hurt in the crawl space under the family house, with alligators in the floodwater.
How much do you want to know?
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The verdict above is spoiler-free. Everything below, including the ending, stays hidden until you pick a depth.
🐱CUT TO THE CHASE
How it ends
Haley, her father Dave and Sugar the dog all make it to the roof and are picked up by a rescue helicopter. Wayne and Pete do not survive, and Dave loses his right forearm.
The scene you're dreading
Near the end, an alligator bites off Dave's right forearm as he climbs the stairs with Sugar after the levees break. Dave survives it.
The dog
No dog dies in Crawl. Sugar makes it out alive with Haley and Dave.
Crawl is a tense, wet creature feature with jump scares, and it is easier to take once you know Haley, Dave and Sugar survive.
THE SHORT VERSION IS HIDDEN
How it ends, the scene you're dreading, what happens to the dog, and the bottom line. About twenty seconds to read.
What actually happens
Evacuation orders are for other people
Haley Keller, a University of Florida swimmer, gets a call from her sister Beth telling her to leave the state before a Category 5 hurricane arrives. She is more worried about her father Dave, who she doesn't get along with, so she goes to his condo. It is empty apart from the family dog, Sugar. State trooper Wayne, who used to date Beth, tells her to evacuate, which she does not do. Haley takes Sugar and heads for the old family house in Coral Lake, a place that could flood, instead of evacuating.
The house is empty, so Haley goes into the crawl space and finds Dave badly mauled but alive. She tries to drag him out and gets stopped by a large American alligator. They retreat to a corner the animal can't reach, and Haley drops her phone. As the house floods, she tries to get the phone back and meets a second alligator, which crushes the phone and hurts her leg. She gets back to the safe spot. Through holes in the wall she can see three looters at a gas station nearby. She gets one of them to notice her, and all three are then attacked and eaten by alligators in the rising water.
Two cops, one storm drain
Wayne and his partner Pete come to the old house looking for Haley and Dave. Wayne goes inside, and the alligators ambush Pete and tear him apart. Wayne finds the crawl space, and Haley and Dave shout a warning, but he gets pulled in and eaten as well. Haley decides to swim to a storm drain as a last attempt to get out, and finds the alligators have built a nest there and laid eggs. One of them attacks her, and she kills it with Wayne's gun.
The levees give out
The water is nearly up to the ceiling of the crawl space, so Haley swims out through the storm drain into the flooded street, goes into the house, and breaks a hole in the living room floor with a crowbar to get Dave out. They bring Sugar and head for a boat outside while the eye of the hurricane passes over. Then the nearby levees break, and the water crashes into the house and splits them up. Near the end, as Dave and Sugar go up the stairs, an alligator bites off Dave's right forearm. This is the scene people dread most, and Dave survives it. Meanwhile Haley makes her way around the kitchen to a floating police radio and calls for rescue, traps one alligator in a shower stall, and fights off another that tries to kill her with a death roll.
The ending, explained
Haley stabs the alligator that has been rolling her in the eye with a flare, and she, Dave and Sugar reunite on the roof. They get through one more close call with another alligator, then rest, just as a rescue helicopter arrives in answer to Haley's radio call. She lights a flare to flag it down. Haley and Dave are rescued with Sugar, and Haley looks at her father in relief while he watches her with pride. Wayne and Pete are dead, and Dave has lost his right forearm.
The post-credits ruling
Nobody has confirmed whether there is a scene after the credits.
✓ Spoiled safelyDog status: fine, Sugar makes it.
Questions people ask at 1am
Is Crawl scary?
Yes. Crawl is a 5 out of 10 with low dread: a tense creature feature with jump scares and graphic attacks, and it is mostly over when the credits roll.
How does Crawl end?
Haley, Dave and Sugar reach the roof and a rescue helicopter picks them up. Wayne and Pete do not survive, and Dave loses his right forearm.
Does the dog die in Crawl?
No dog dies in Crawl. Sugar the dog makes it to the roof and gets rescued with Haley and Dave.
Is there a post-credits scene in Crawl?
Nobody has confirmed whether Crawl has a scene after the credits.
Why are there alligators in the house in Crawl?
In Crawl, the hurricane floods the area around the family house in Coral Lake, and alligators swim in with the rising floodwater. They also have a nest with eggs in the storm drain.
BLURRED FOR YOUR PROTECTION
The whole plot of Crawl is hidden, ending included. It stays that way until you ask.
You don't need to spend eighty-seven minutes in a flooded crawl space to know how Crawl ends. Install Scaredy Cat and it will blur horror before you see it.
