John Buckworth I like that the other reviews on IMDb don't talk too much about the plot, I watched this film tonight and thoroughly enjoyed it, and I was happy to not know too much beforehand. The references to other movies are fair enough, but I think there's a bit of a trend to describe films as "This movie" meets "That movie", and sometimes that's fair enough: but I think this film stands on its own merits.I liked the characters, I liked the plot, I like the pace of the story; I like the idea of the movie; I like the special effects. It's not a splatter movie but it is a fine addition to Antipodean genre films.I would definitely watch a sequel, I can't explain more without giving away spoilers!If you enjoy low-budget genre movies that transcend their financial limitations through darn good film-making, this is well worth a watch.

lois-lane33 I think that because television has become so clogged with commercials they have been churning out movies like this one by the truckload because there is now a huge market for DVDs to watch at home thanks to TV basically sucking the big one. This looks like a direct to disc movie release and its not got much going for it. I think the Pine Gap secret facility reference in the film is gratuitous since there actually is such a place and its a communications base in real life Australia. The rest of the film is some kind of a mixed bag of Resident Evil meets Alien in an unhappy marriage. Watch it if you are totally bored. It might keep your mind occupied for a time but chances are it will just make you feel frustrated. They should make better TV. If they did movies like this wouldn't even exist. Which would be a good thing.

The_Dead_See IMDb truly baffles me sometimes. The score for Crawlspace stands at 4.8 at the time of writing which is ridiculously low for such a competent, not to mention fun, piece of film making. Premise - a military team is sent in to an underground complex ("Australia's version of Area 51" one character notes) with the mission of eliminating a group of escaped prisoners and saving the scientists. Of course it all goes wrong, and that's about all you need to know.No, actually what you need to know is that this hangs together way better than 90% of the other Aliens derived plots out there. The similarities to Aliens are evident at every turn, from the way the military team interacts with one another (much like James Cameron's colonial marines), to the motion trackers and a lead protagonist who bears more than an uncanny resemblance to Michael Biehn. Sure it rips of Aliens, but it rips it off well and if like me you've been waiting for over 25 years for a film that had that Aliens vibe going for it then you will love this.There's another layer to Crawlspace too though - a pretty intriguing psychological mystery plot woven through that hides just enough answers to keep your interest. But, like all good old school movies, it doesn't try to get too clever and the end is obvious but deeply entertaining including a couple of kiss-off lines that I said right along with the actors and then grinned my head off.I dunno, I suppose kids these days want something different from movies than we did in my generation. When I go into a sci fi horror movie about soldiers vs underground monsters, all I really want is some gore, some action, and some entertainment and Crawlspace delivered on all accounts. 4.8 - no way. This is a solid 6. But I'm giving it an 8 just to counterbalance some of the insanity.

grandmastersik Another case of Could Have Been So Much Better, here, I'm afraid.Without a seemingly real beginning, the audience is thrown into the action not caring much for anyone or having any real concept of the environment, its trappings or the perils within, only to instead wonder what happened to the rest of the so-called "elite" unit that is suddenly just four bikers and a former spy.I'd like to think that 20 minutes from the beginning were sacrificed due to budget restraints meaning that the film was either spat out as is, or left forever incomplete, but others reviewing this may prefer to cuss the writer-director, who did show moments of a brighter future (if given more money).Yes, the film does feature a hot blonde who can actually act, and the former spy is a decent-enough character to maintain interest, so as it progresses, the film does prove to be somewhat rewarding, but that lack of seeing the elite unit go through the entrance of the compound to give us an idea of how cramped and isolated it really is, of seeing the rest of them wiped out to amp' up our fear for the few surviving on the lower, more dangerous levels, really takes a viewer out of the film before giving one much chance to get into it, and that is a shame.