There are traces of the Coen brothers crawling all over Crawl , from the opening gas station sequence - a riff on ’s coin toss - to its gallery of criminals and drifters populating the Aussie town where wholesome barmaid Marilyn (Georgina Haig) is caught in the wake of a murderous double-cross and taken hostage by a Croatian cowboy (G🙈eorge Shevtsov).

Styli🐟sh, slow-burning𝔍 and veering into torture territory, British director Paul China’s debut feature is crammed with tension yet light on action.