During NYCC, Screen Rant sat down with Crawl director Alexandre Aja to discuss his take on intense alligator horror during a Florida hurricane.

Hot off his summer horror hit Crawl, genre maestro Alexandre Aja has signed on to direct an untitled haunted house movie for Steven Spielberg's Amblin Partners, and the kicker is, it will be an interactive horror film featuring a branched narrative -- i.e. a choose-your-own-adventure-style horror movie. The film will be written by Jeff Howard (The Haunting of Hill House), Nick Simon (The Girl in the Photographs), and Aja, based on an idea by Howard and Mike Flanagan (Doctor Sleep). [caption id="attachment_317647" align="alignright" width="350"] Image via Relativity Media[/caption] To develop the …

High Tension and The Hills Have Eyes (2006) director Alexandre Aja makes one hell of a return to horror with Crawl. Set during a Category 5 hurricane in Florida, the film finds an estranged daughter (Kaya Scodelario) and father (Barry Pepper) fighting off a blood-thirsty congregation of alligators. As the waters rise, safe ground rapidly disappears and their old family home becomes an infested alligator nest with no escape in sight. It's a lean, relentless, absolutely gripping survival horror that will have you jumping out of your seat with some of the best "holy shit" movie-going moments …