Plot Summary
University of Florida swimmer Haley Keller receives a call from her older sister Beth advising her to leave the state due to the imminent arrival of a Category 5 hurricane. Concerned for the safety of her estranged father Dave, Haley checks on him at his condo but finds it empty except for the family dog, Sugar. Against the instructions of Beth’s ex-boyfriend Wayne, a Florida state trooper, she ignores evacuation orders and goes with Sugar to their old family home in Coral Lake, a location at risk of flooding. Haley finds the house empty. She enters the crawl space under the house, and finds her father mauled but alive.
She attempts to drag him out but is stopped by a large American alligator. She and her father retreat back where she found him, in an area that the animal cannot enter, but she drops her phone. As the house begins to flood, she attempts to retrieve the phone, but encounters a second gator that crushes it and injures her leg. She retreats back to the safe space. Peeping outside through holes in the wall, she sees three looters at a nearby gas station. She gets the attention of one, but then all three are attacked and devoured by alligators swimming in the rising floodwaters. Wayne and his partner Pete arrive at the old house searching for Haley and Dave.
Wayne enters the house, but Pete is ambushed and torn to pieces by the alligators. Wayne locates the crawl space. Haley and Dave warn him of the danger but he is pulled in and devoured. In a last-ditch effort to escape, Haley swims to a storm drain, where she discovers the alligators have made their nest and laid eggs. An alligator attacks her but she kills it with Wayne’s gun. With the floodwaters almost filling the crawl space.
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Info & Stats
Director:
Alexandre Aja
Writers:
Michael Rasmussen, Shawn Rasmussen
Stars:
Kaya Scodelario, Barry Pepper, Morfydd Clark
Categories:
Horror, Thriller
Budget:
$13,500,000.00
Revenue:
$91,542,097.00
Age: RÂ Â |Â Â Duration: 1h 27m
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