Crawlers are strange, carnivorous humanoids that live in caves. They've evolved in this environment over Millenia.
Description[]
They've adapted perfectly to thrive in the cave. They've lost their eyesight and have acute hearing allowing them to function perfectly in the pitch black. They're expert climbers, able to scale the rocky walls of their home with ease.
They live in family groups with the larger males doing the hunting and the smaller females rearing the young. The male hunters will leave the caves at night to hunt for prey to drag back down. They are mostly ambush predators, using their hearing to pin point a target, they then attack by jumping on their prey and biting their throats. This is their preferred method of killing as their sharp teeth allow them to rip open the throat of their prey, causing them to bleed to death.
The Descent[]
Notes[]
They were never referred as 'Crawlers' at all in both films, only referred to as 'Things'.
During the making of the first film the director barred the film's all-female cast from seeing the actors in full crawler make-up until their first appearance on screen. Actress Natalie Mendoza said of the effect, "When the moment came, I nearly wet my pants! I was running around afterwards, laughing in this hysterical way and trying to hide the fact that I was pretty freaked out. Even after that scene, we never really felt comfortable with them."