SCRAWL: The Comic Book That Kills
What would get your undivided attention right now? How about if I told you there’s a B-movie out now about a comic book that kills people? Don’t answer yet — I can sweeten this deal. What if I told you that movie starred Daisy Ridley, better known as Rey from Star Wars? NOW how much would you pay? That’s the premise of SCRAWL, a direct-to-DVD movie now available exclusively at Wal-Mart. Obviously Daisy filmed the movie before she got her breakthrough part in The Force Awakens. Doesn’t make it any less delicious that this exists. Now for the second most important question: how does the comic book kill? Does it grab a knife between its pages and waddle up to unsuspecting adolescents? Does it take a limo to Hollywood, option itself for a cinematic universe and result in a movie so bad that people who see it have their heads explode? Not quite. The actual plot is somewhere between Death Note and that episode of JoJo where the kid has