It Crawls Beneath

Bad writing, bad acting, bad sound mixing. I think the worst part was the main character being trapped under a car for about 20 minutes of the movie. That was just dumb writing, maybe it was the only way they could fit in a monologue for the main character? Yeah, skip this.

The writing really tried to add some depth to this but all of the character plots given were just cliche or boring. What about the monsters? Confined to one location making things even more uneventful and boring. The pace was slow, I skipped through swaths of it just to get to something of actual interest so least to say I watched a good 30 minutes of this movie and that was still more than enough.

Not any good? Well, I had a laugh alright, when I started watching this movie, because it was so utterly terrible, that I actually thought this might be a parody, a conscious attempt to make a terrible horror movie that was meant to evoke laughter instead of horror. But ofcourse this wasnt the case!

The bad: this is NOT horror. This is NOT thrilling for one second.

What is it then? Amateur hour. We get to see a guy laying trapped under a car for an hour long. Well, you might think, isnt that dramatic? NOPE. The "actors" starring in this product are C-listed actors, who usually only would get roles in tv commercials or tv soap series, wherein any acting capabilities are not important.

No pun intended - the movie is .. well you have to cut it quite some slack. You have to be a fan of horror movies too. Michael Pare is I reckon a known name, but it is someone else who is the main character here - Pare is only there to add some name recognition I suppose.

The real star are the special effects anyway - which are not bad considering this is a low budget movie. Still the question is, can you dig (no pun intended) being closed off, being a "prisoner" in a close space and just let the absurdity of the movie rule over you and the running time? I don't judge any actor or rather their acting abilities just based on this movie - you probably shouldn't either ... they don't act ... naturally ... again no pun intended.

When I was reading the description of the movie, I thought this could be interesting, but the acting was terrible.

You just couldn't get going on the movie because the acting was bad. It's not like Sharknado where the acting is bad that it becomes funny. This movie is like I'm attending a high school play.

At the end of the day this was a budget movie, and I guess that pretty much sums it up. Don't get me wrong, there are a few moments where it was actually not bad, and it actually reminded me that it was a horror movie. However, those moments are few and far.

I'll give them credit for trying but my suggestion would be to skip this one.

(2022) They Crawl Beneath THRILLER HORROR

Uncle Bill Moritz (Michael Paré) gets himself bitten by a worm-like creature, and thinks nothing of it when he swats it off his leg. Bill's nephew, Danny Moritz (Joseph Almani) then picks it up and puts it into a jar so that his ex can have it examined. And when Danny's ex leaves a message on his phone regarding the infected and dangerous worm, he does not even answer it. And then when both Bill and Danny are working underneath their vintage car, an earthquake begins to erupt. And if anyone were to see this, Danny had enough time to pull himself out of their before he was being crushed, and at the same time pull his uncle out of their as well. But what does he do, he just continues to leave his legs underneath their, so that the car is able to crush his legs. For the next hour or so, he does a lot of reflecting self evaluating on his personal life, who eventually realizes that Bill was not his uncle after all but that he may be his actual father after all. We also get to see how both him and his ex Gwen Bishop (Karlee Eldridge) and the reason why his police officer duties were placing a strain on their relationship. And the reason is hogwash, as despite being injured trying to prevent a robbery from happening that he got himself injured, but yet he still wants to return to his duties. As far as I know, officers are not permitted to continue to work if he or she were injured on the job, the protocol was that they are supposed to stay home and collect workers compensation. This movie does not appear to acknowledge that, anticipating anyone who watches this to be gullible idiots without knowing anything.

On one scene the worm like creature was supposed to be afraid of the light except that at the beginning when the doctor studied it, it cocooned into something else. And yet light was pointed to it throughout the entire time before it killed the doctor. The ending was dumb as Danny's partner, Holder (Christopher M. Dukes) could have used his own squad car to ram through the garage door or use the squad car to pull the door open. Do we do not even get to see the worm who killed the doctor at the beginning destroyed. The worm killed the dog around the area but the dog's owner, Ed is nowhere in sight nor does he matter anymore. And despite officer Danny himself being trapped with the worms, not one of their fellow officers ever consider slipping him their revolver underneath to shoot them down while many of them were trying to lift the door open to pull him out. One of the more dumber and convoluted movies ever.