The Total Bastard Database

The greatest killers, madmen, monsters and maniacs in horror movie history.

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CRAWLER

AKA:
Various

Was a bastard in:
The Descent

So Who the Hell are they?

Crawlers are subterranean carnivorous
semi-evolved bat-men things. These are
not the kind of bat-man you’ll find
brooding over the death of his parents
and kicking the shit out of oddly
costumed criminals in a stylized
neo-gothic fictional city though. No,
these guys are happiest crawling around
in the dark tearing the throats out of
any passing humans. They could be
some evoloutionary mutation, a missing link

That’s not a knife…

No weapons needed here, they get along just fine with their natural assets of freakish strength and sharp jagged teeth.

Why, for the love of God, Why??!!?

When the party of adventurous young women in The Descent get trapped underground in unexplored caverns they unwittingly walk straight into an entire nest of these things. Maybe they’re just attacking through self-defense or maybe they’re attacking through hunger too. It makes little difference as whatever the reason, anybody who runs afoul of them is going to be pretty much torn to pieces and eaten alive anyway.

So what’s the damage?

The girls in the film aren’t the only ones to have encountered these beasts, they find evidence of a party of explorers who lost their way many years ago. Unfortunately none of them ever saw daylight again – whatever could have happened to them?

It’s a million to one chance but it might just work…

Not being supernatural creatures, crawlers can be dispatched in as many ways as you can think of when stuck underground in the pitch darkness with your friends dying all around you. Of course, this is made more difficult by the fact that the crawlers have ultra-sonic hearing and incredible strength and agility. Then again, a good sturdy climbing pick in the hand is nothing to be taken lightly.

Words of wisdom:

“Gggrrr”

By Matt Compton

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