I’m not sure if you guys are aware or not, butThe Hills Have EyesandHigh Tensiondirector Alexandre Aja and producer Sam Raimi (The Evil Dead,Spider-Man) are teaming together for an all-new horror flick calledCrawl. The movie stars Kaya Scodelario (Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales,Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials) as a young woman who becomes trapped in a flooding house during a Category 5 hurricane and must battle against Florida’s most savage and feared predators. I’m assuming this means some big old gators. Nice. Anyhow, today we have word that the film has moved from an August 23 wide release to June 29, 2025.
This new release date places the horror movie one week afterJon Watts’s Spider-Man: Far From Homeand one week before Disney’s much-anticipated live-action-ish remake ofThe Lion KingfromThe Jungle BookandIron Mandirector Jon Favreau. That said, the film’s budget seems to be set at a reasonable $17 million, so I expect earning its money back and then some won’t be much of a feat for this killer gator flick. As far as other movies release on July 12th itself,Crawlwill face direct weekend competition from Michael Dowse’sStuberstarring Kumail Nanjiani and Dave Bautista, and Lulu Wang’sThe Farewellstarring Awkwafina and Diana Lin.
Now y’all know me. Know how I earn a livin'. I’m a horror movie fan. And as ahorror movie fan, Alexandre Aja’sCrawlis quickly rising above the likes ofHellboy,The Curse of La Llorona,Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark,Midsommar, andAnnabelle 3to become one of my top must-see movies of 2019. Sure we still haven’t seen enough to let me know if this will join the likes ofIT: Chapter Two,Pet Sematary,Child’s Play, andThree from Hellas a top five must-see movie, but you never know. We’ll see once a trailer is unleashed. After all, combining the forces behind such genre classics as Aja’s above-mentionedThe Hills Have EyesandHigh Tensionand producer Sam Raimi’sThe Evil Dead,Evil Dead 2, andDrag Me to Hellto name a few, seems like a match made in horror heaven. Bring it on, I say! And don’tskimp on the alligatorsbiting off asses action.
Alexandre AjadirectsCrawlfrom a screenplay he co-wrote along with Michael Rasmussen and Shawn Rasmussen (John Carpenter’s The Ward). Raimi and Aja will be producing this new horror-thriller along with Craig Flores (300,Immortals,300: Rise of an Empire). Executive producers include Justin Bursch, Grégory Levasseur (The Pyramid), and Lauren Selig. Scodelario’s co-stars include Barry Pepper (Saving Private Ryan,Battlefield Earth) as Scodelario’s father Dave Keller, Ross Anderson as Wayne Taylor, Anson Boon as Stan, George Somner as Marv, Ami Metcalf as Lee, Jose Palma as Pete, Morfydd Clark as Beth Keller, Tina Pribicevic as Young Haley, Annamaria Serda as Emma, Savannah Steyn as Lisa, Jovana Dragas as Susan, and Colin McFarlane as the Governor. Maxime Alexandre (The Nun,Annabelle: Creation) provides the film’s cinematography. This update was shared over onDeadline.
