May 19, 2025 – Miami, FL — Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water—or your basement—Paramount Pictures has officially released the first full trailer for Crawl 2, the high-stakes sequel to 2019’s surprise survival-horror hit.

Scroll down to the bottom of the article to see the Trailer

This time, the alligators are smarter, the storm is bigger, and the stakes are deadlier than ever.

Directed once again by Alexandre Aja (Crawl, The Hills Have Eyes), Crawl 2 introduces Millie Bobby Brown in the lead role as Riley Greene, a fiercely independent teenage marine biology student who returns to her hometown in the Florida wetlands—just as a Category 5 hurricane unleashes a new terror lurking beneath the floodwaters.

“We’re not at the top of the food chain anymore,” Brown’s character whispers in the trailer, as a guttural growl echoes from the dark.

Set several years after the events of the original, Crawl 2 expands the horror from the confines of a basement to an entire submerged town. Brown’s character, stranded and cut off from help, must lead a group of survivors through collapsing homes, flooded roads, and underwater tunnels swarming with deadly, mutated apex predators.

The trailer showcases:

• Claustrophobic, edge-of-your-seat sequences in flooded stairwells

• Alligators breaching rooftops

• Millie Bobby Brown fighting for survival with improvised weapons and terrifying determination

Also starring Michael Cudlitz (The Walking Dead) as a hardened search-and-rescue commander and Jenna Ortega in a cameo role, the film blends disaster-movie thrills with creature-feature horror.

“Crawl 2 is bigger, wetter, and meaner,” Aja teased at a press event. “We’ve expanded the world but stayed true to the primal fear that made the original so effective.”

Crawl 2 is set to flood theaters on August 15, 2025 — just in time for storm season.