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\"\"<\/a>Crawlers<\/strong> (2026)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Roadside Attractions\/Horror\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 RT: 86 minutes\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Rated R (violent content\/bloody images, language, brief sexual material)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Director: Angel Gomez Hernandez\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Screenplay: Jayson Rothwell\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Music: Joan Martorell\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cinematography: Pablo Rosso\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Release date: October 16, 2026 (US)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cast: Matilda Lutz, Gregg Sulkin, Melina Matthews, William Miller, Isabella Egizi, Chris Rogers, Elena Sanz, Diana Cruz, Lea Vivier, Paul S. Tracey, Sam Lucas Smith, Estela Aniorte, Andrea Scott Mendez, Gary Anthony Stennette, Lex Salvador, Hal Rothwell, Carlos Toca, Angel Gomez Rivero.<\/p>\n

Rating<\/strong>: ***<\/p>\n

\u00a0Arachnophobes are advised to steer clear of Crawlers<\/strong>. Hell, it might even trigger those who aren\u2019t afraid of spiders. The deadly little buggers infecting a whole apartment complex are many and quite scary. I was feeling a little itchy myself as I left the cinema.<\/p>\n

\u00a0Directed by Angel Gomez Hernandez (Don\u2019t Listen), Crawlers<\/strong> is a good, old-fashioned, campy creature feature with a palpable sense of claustrophobia. The terror begins when one of the tenants (Rogers, The Running Man) unknowingly brings a venomous spider back with him from a trip. It exits his body, killing him and quickly multiplying. It isn\u2019t long before the entire building is overrun with the nasty, eight-legged freaks.<\/p>\n

\u00a0The heroine of the story is building super Serena (Lutz, Rings), an aspiring musician who does the best she can keeping up with maintenance in a shabby, rundown complex run by a nasty landlord (Miller, Warrior Nun). The tenants, most of them fairly rude and demanding, include a snotty female lawyer, a tech geek, a social media guy, a d-bag yuppie, a single dad with a baby, a dominatrix and a teen girl whose mother is away on business.<\/p>\n

\u00a0Initially believing the problem to be a virus, the whole building is placed under quarantine until the issue is resolved. In addition, all communications are shut down leaving the tenants trapped with the deadly aggressive arachnids. I\u2019ll only say that not everybody lives to see a new day dawn.<\/p>\n

\u00a0Crawlers<\/strong> opens with titles reading, \u201cFor every single person there are three million spiders. If spiders decide to eat humans… we\u2019ll all be dead in one year. You are never more than three feet from a spider. Please don\u2019t be alarmed but… there\u2019s probably a spider under your seat.\u201d A smile spread across my face as I read these words. It\u2019s like something out of a William Castle movie minus some silly gimmick designed to get butts in the seats. And while Crawlers<\/strong> is fun for the most part, it struggles with tone. The mix of humor and horror is an uneasy one. It doesn\u2019t know what it wants to be and the lack of self-confidence shows.<\/p>\n

\u00a0Crawlers<\/strong> isn\u2019t the kind of film that demands brilliant acting. All that\u2019s required of the actors is the ability to scream good and loud. Everybody does both very well. Full disclosure, I\u2019m not familiar with any of the actors in Crawlers<\/strong>. I saw Rings once when it first came out in 2017 and have no desire to revisit it. I don\u2019t specifically recall Matilda Lutz in it, but she\u2019s okay here. She\u2019s easy on the eyes anyway. The rest of the cast is varying degrees of okay. That\u2019s really all I have to say on this particular subject.<\/p>\n

\u00a0Now let\u2019s talk about something that does matter, the special effects. The spiders are CGI; the gore and webs are practical FX. The CGI isn\u2019t too bad. It\u2019s actually quite good for a B-movie. It\u2019s better than what you\u2019d see on a Syfy original movie. The gross-out moments are sufficiently gross thanks to convincing make-up work. Some of it will definitely make people squirm. An early scene of a spider emerging from a man\u2019s body had most of the audience wincing. The webs have a tactile look to them.<\/p>\n

\u00a0The storyline is silly and simple. The one-dimensional characters aren\u2019t terribly bright. They do dumb things. Two of them get themselves trapped in an elevator and practically invite the arachnid invaders in there with them through their own stupidity. And that\u2019s what makes Crawlers<\/strong> so much fun. The biggest laugh I got out of it was Serena watching a movie in her apartment. It was The Giant Spider Invasion (1975). How fitting is that?<\/p>\n

\u00a0In the end, Crawlers<\/strong> is a solid B-movie with a 70s grindhouse vibe. It stumbles in the dark a little, but it\u2019s fun nonetheless.\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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