Crawl or Die (2014)

I was originally planning to give this a 6 for trying, alas, rethinking does force me to decrease to 5... I don't think it deserves lower, but it also does not deserve higher either. Had this been 45-60min in length, then maybe.Scrappy security team protects last fertile woman in existence from an alien creature doggedly pursuing them. I won't call them soldiers, since they make a couple decisions that distinctly mark them untrained in that regard... But overall the actors do well enough with what they got.The backstory is told in an unnecessary flashback and could've easily been recounted by the characters in-action. The backstory is pretty basic and works mostly as an excuse to force the events upon our protagonists, exactly like in older Shoot-Em-Up -games, and is thus pretty irrelevant to the actual happenings on-screen.What happens, then? Here we come into the main pro AND con of the movie: most of it is simply crawling through very, VERY cramped spaces and while it ups the claustrophobia, it also gets rather dull to watch and I constantly had the feeling that Crawl or Die would've worked better if it were shorter.Creature itself is a cheap Alien rip-off, though that doesn't matter much to me, as I prefer cheap but usually workable practical effects to cheap and usually crappy CGI.All in all, I'm not regretting buying the DVD on cheap, but also don't think I'll watch it again anytime soon! Had the writer-director kept this at the length of approx a TV episode, it could've worked better, so my verdict will be "Nice try, try again!", especially if he's planning to continue Tank's story in the future. =)

**Spoilers** The first time I saw this I was a little bit underwhelmed due to the lack of script/dialogue (apart from the speech about a girl being the only remaining fertile female left), but then realised that once "Tank" was the only survivor and she was going from tunnel to tunnel with ever decreasing space, I realised that dialogue wasn't necessary and it became a total tension festival for her (and for the viewer).I don't think I have ever seen a film where the feeling of claustrophobia has been done so well (even The Descent didn't manage that) and when you think of the extremely limited budget, it is even more impressive. At times I was just begging for her to be able to get some air/space/anything to stop the nightmare!Nicole Alonso & Oklahoma Ward ought to be very proud of what they have created & I, for one, can't wait for the continuation of the story.My work colleagues all agreed that it was an incredibly tense film & very good.Watch it, stick with it & be impressed ..... I was!

It is not a movie i would watch several times but glad i have seen it !All the bad critics baffle me. The movie jumped right into the action with only a little info about what the f*ck is going on and never gives any explanation where or what they encounter.Its all fine tho.I'm not squeamish about gore or explicit material but this movie made me feel claustrophobic and uneasy as nothing else without.I was relieved the movie ended because i suffered together with the starring actress,and she did a fine job a horror babe,Hell i want her as Ripley in the Alien remakes.In the end.. is this not whats a horror movie is all about ?To make you feel uneasy?Indeed the story or the effects did not impress like the usual dose Hollywood inject us with.I still give this movie a fat 8 out of 10.Its way better then the thousands of boring crap horror movies i ever seen.Only two things wrong with the movie: 1)Nicole Alonso had better no bra worn under her tank top. 2)Maybe the movie should have a different ending.8000$ budget ?! Awesome job !

i'll start off by saying i'm pretty sad to see the comparisons to this and that movie. "its like alien"..."its a cheap the descent knock-off" great so in that case any movie that features a similar aspect to another movie automatically reduces your review to 4 stars? Heck in that case The Raid 2 gets 4 stars as it features a prison...just like..oh Shawshank Redemption, the much..better..plotted..movie.People have to realise what was accomplished with this movie on $8000! I'd never personally seen such a movie as this, and having watched some pretty intense movies the past 3 decades (in fact thousands of movies as i'm a bit of a movie nut) I can safely say that it made me feel ill just by watching the gorgeous Tank character and what she had to go through. With no certainty of getting out of it in one piece, an ever-tightening sense of fear and isolation, and with a relentless single entity in pursuit in one massive extended 1 hour 29m scene.And you know what else? I commented about the movie on social media and received lovely replies of thanks back from the director and star, lovely polite people that appreciate their fans.So, enough of the comparisons to other movies, this had PLENTY more going for it as an 'own piece' Mr O, England