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Alligators and Crocodiles in Movies   Crawl (2019)   Spoiler Alert ! Some of these pictures and descriptions may give away plot details that you might not want to know before watching the film.   This movie is rated R for bloody creature violence. That's probably all you need to know. You either like that kind of movie, with all the jump scares and squirting blood, or you don't. It's part father-daughter drama, part monster movie, and part hurricane thriller. But mostly it's a monster movie. Alligators run amok. And it's one of the better monster thrillers I've seen. That's no surprise since horror master Sam Raimi produced it. The protagonist is Haley (Kaya Scodelario), a young woman on her college swim team. (The college team is called the Florida Gators, ha ha.) She becomes trapped in a basement with bloodthirsty alligators during a category 5 hurricane. She drove into the path of the hurricane to evacuate her estranged father, who she finds badly wounded in the basement. Hayley is more than the typical horror movie damsel in distress who needs to be saved. She saves herself. She stabs gators in the face with screwdrivers, shoots them in the mouth, slams doors on their heads, and uses her bare hands to smash their eggs, which she finds in a drain connected to the basement. The alligators are obviously protecting their nesting area, which seems to make them extra vicious. As various people come into the neighborhood, either to loot it or to try to rescue Hayley and her father, the always-hungry alligators pick them off one by one. When the levee breaks and floods the neighborhood, it all becomes a swimming contest between the Florida gators and the Florida Gator. With her father's coaching, she somehow manages to swim fast enough. But you knew that already. Heroes never die in these movies, they just get wounded so they can return for the sequel. The movie was very successful at the box office. While the director Alexandre Aja said he'd like to make a sequel, the internet is not spreading rumors about that happening, at least not yet in early 2020. I'm not sure how they made them, but the alligators appear to be a combination of practical and computer-generated effects. However they're made, you won't find yourself stopping to question if they are real or not.