A hurricane is coming, but it can’t break up a family that has already fallen apart. Haley (Kaya Scodelario) is a student at a Florida college with a penchant for swimming and a scholarship to match. After a match that doesn’t end well for Haley, she gets a video call from her sister. “Have you heard from dad, I can’t get a hold of him”. Which is a negative, especially since Haley and her father (Barry Pepper) are currently fighting and not on speaking terms. But he is still her father, so Haley decides to drive two hours to find her missing dad.
Through some minor detective work, she tracks his truck down to her childhood home, a house that should have been sold already. Entering the house, she finds evidence of his presence, but no dad. Thanks to the family pooch and his Lassie-like barking hints, she enters the crawl-space type basement on hands and knees to search her father.
Traveling to the rear of the area, she finds her father unconscious and bleeding. Thinking quick, she creates a makeshift stretcher to slide him back to the stairs. Unfortunately, there is another guest in the crawl space below and this guest has already met her father, and is rather enjoying the rising water. A nuisance when driving in a car, but an imminent threat when traversing on hands and knees, Haley must out-think this predator before all of her options drown in the rising tide.
This movie is exactly what it needs to be, a fun jump scare wrapped in alligators, blood and suspense. Enter the theater and accept it for what it is and you’ll come out happy and slightly more afraid of Florida.
Grade: B
Running Time: 1h 27m
MPAA Rating: R
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