If nothing else, Thrash makes Crawl look like a masterpiece. At the time, many — including this writer — dismissed Alexandre Aja’s 2019 bloodthirsty-gator flick because it takes place in a basement in Florida, and, well, houses don’t really have basements in Florida. In retrospect, however, that’s a minor detail compared to the many, many logical leaps and glaring inconsistencies in Thrash — too many to count, really, but among them are “why are these houses filling up with water at such dramatically different rates?” and “did she really just cut her own umbilical cord with a piece of wet wood?” |