Cert 15
78 mins
BBFC advice: Contains strong bloody violence, threat and hard drug use.
Apparently, it doesn't need high quality acting, great dialogue or a big budget to create suspense.
To give director Paul China his due, both Mrs W and I were on edge throughout large parts of this Australian thriller and it made us jump.
Crawl is set in a small town where a bar owner (Paul Holmes) has paid a Croatian hitman (George Shevtsov) to bump off the local garage owner (Bob Newman)with whom he's fallen out.
At first the assassin gives the impression of being clinical. He completes his job, picks up his cash and heads out of town.
However, there are already a couple of hints that he might not be as focused as first appears and when he crashes his car, he begins a spree of violent madness.
This includes terrorising a young barmaid (Georgina Haig) whose fightback provides the movie with its central plank.
The cowboy-hatted Shevtsov is an interesting villain. The few words he speaks are in heavily accented English but his swagger is enough to send shivers.
At first, his violence is calculated but the audience gradually sees his character lose control.
Haig plays the type of victim I have seen a thousand times before - she becomes more feisty as time goes on.
There honestly isn't much else to say other than the film achieved what it set out to - and left us rather disconcerted and maybe listening out for a few creaking doors tonight.
This was achieved despite the fact that our Virgin Movies On Demand film stuck, I kid you not, about 20 times. Every time we had to start it again!
Laughs: none
Jumps: two decent-sized ones
Vomit: none
Nudity: none
Overall rating: 5.5/10
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