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Scurry (2025)

Scurry (2025)

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My quick rating – 3.7/10. I didn’t realize I was curious what would happen if two strangers fell into a sinkhole and then spent 100 minutes bickering while occasionally dodging a CGI house spider on steroids. Thankfully, Scurry is here to answer that question I know I wasn’t curious about in the slightest.

The film opens with a city being attacked by something. Explosions, screaming civilians, chaos everywhere… then the camera confidently ignores all that interesting stuff and dives straight into a sinkhole, landing on Mark (Jamie Costa), who’s buried in rubble and bleeding. Instead of climbing out or yelling for help like a normal person, he decides the optimal strategy is to head deeper underground. Smart. Very mole-like behavior.

Down there, he bumps into Sarah—or Kate? The movie finally commits to her name long after you have given a shit. She is played by Emalia, who is also injured but still manages to immediately assume command of the situation because she has a gun and a strong desire to irritate the only other human within earshot. Their dynamic is simple: he insists it was an earthquake, she refuses to believe anything he says, and they both make decisions that would get them killed before the spider even shows up.

Yes, the spider. The marketing promised a monstrous threat, but what we get is an occasionally present, occasionally visible, slightly shy arachnid rendered with CGI quality somewhere between “mobile game cutscene” and “weather channel simulation.” It lurks. It hisses. It… politely waits off-screen while the main characters argue about whose fault everything is.

Most of the movie consists of crawling, sliding, wheezing, and groaning through increasingly narrow tunnels while coughing through what can only be described as CGI dust storms. Every time a rock shifts, particles magically bloom into perfect beige clouds, as if the earth itself just discovered Photoshop’s smoke brush.

At one point, someone must be sipping Everclear from a flask, which ultimately gets weaponized into a flamethrower explosion that would make Michael Bay raise an eyebrow. Yes, alcohol is flammable—but not “atomic firebomb” flammable. Still, it’s easily the most exciting moment in the film, so I respect the commitment to science denial.

There is almost no blood in this creature feature minus a single shot from above ground through a sewer grate. The single notable kill doesn’t even involve Mark or Sarah/Kate, who remain suspiciously clean for two people tunneling through dirt for over an hour. The trailer, in fact, shows you about 90% of the spider’s appearances, so if you’ve seen that, congratulations—you’ve essentially watched Scurry at 2x speed.

The ending at least offers a pretty outdoor shot to remind you what sunlight looks like. If you caught the verbal cue Mark got from his wife on the phone, the new world is a fitting last scene. Unfortunately, you’ll have to endure 100 minutes of underground misery to earn that five-second reward. Unless you’re incredibly passionate about claustrophobic sliding and poor decision-making, go ahead and crawl out of this one before it starts. Then again, I have seen far worse.

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