Sting is a new horror film created and written by Kiah Roache-Turner, the director of the Wyrmwood films
12-year-old Charlotte (Alyla Browne) finds a special spider and secretly eats it. During this education she learns that the spider is very intelligent, but is also becoming increasingly hungry and small insects are soon no longer enough for the spider.
As the spider begins to develop a taste for other animals and even humans, Charlotte learns that the spider is too dangerous to maintain. She has to stop the spider before it tries to eat too many people and animals.
After his more indie zombie and demon movie, Kiah Roache-Turner is now trying to make a monster movie about a scary induced spider, which is starting to become more and more dangerous. Before the spider really threatens to pose a major threat, he makes the film more about a family drama. Here, Charlotte must learn to cope with a stepfather and a new baby, while beginning to feel less important. That is why she starts a "friendship" with this intelligent spider, but in the beginning there are so few interesting events in the film to keep you as a viewer interned in the film. Later, when the spider starts to get bigger, a little more happens, but not enough, to really make the movie better.
The film is also somewhat reminiscent of a simple copy of the 1979 film Alien, but with a less original story and interesting characters. Furthermore, this film is also somewhat reminiscent of the monster film Eight Legged Freaks, a more horror-comedy about an invasion of large spiders. This was more of a horror comedy filled with cheesy humor, which is often found in more parody comedy films. With Sting she seems to try to keep it more like a real horror film with scary or bloody horror moments. Yet there are moments and characters in the film that seem to come more from a parody horror comedy. This can make the film seem unbalanced.
Compared to Eight Legged Freaks, the spider in this film comes across well, because it is often more in the shadows, so that the CGI with which it is placed in the film is not so noticeable. When the spider has a large size, it appears less programming and the CGI is more noticeable.
Alyla Browne gives a nice performance as a girl who increasingly begins to feel lonely after changes in her family life. Her character is just not that interesting in the film, she often wants to follow things on her phone or share them on social media. It seems that after the spider starts to become more bloodthirsty, they can no longer really take responsibility for the spider's actions. The other characters are also not very well developed or interesting to follow.
As the spider begins to develop a taste for other animals and even humans, Charlotte learns that the spider is too dangerous to maintain. She has to stop the spider before it tries to eat too many people and animals.
After his more indie zombie and demon movie, Kiah Roache-Turner is now trying to make a monster movie about a scary induced spider, which is starting to become more and more dangerous. Before the spider really threatens to pose a major threat, he makes the film more about a family drama. Here, Charlotte must learn to cope with a stepfather and a new baby, while beginning to feel less important. That is why she starts a "friendship" with this intelligent spider, but in the beginning there are so few interesting events in the film to keep you as a viewer interned in the film. Later, when the spider starts to get bigger, a little more happens, but not enough, to really make the movie better.
The film is also somewhat reminiscent of a simple copy of the 1979 film Alien, but with a less original story and interesting characters. Furthermore, this film is also somewhat reminiscent of the monster film Eight Legged Freaks, a more horror-comedy about an invasion of large spiders. This was more of a horror comedy filled with cheesy humor, which is often found in more parody comedy films. With Sting she seems to try to keep it more like a real horror film with scary or bloody horror moments. Yet there are moments and characters in the film that seem to come more from a parody horror comedy. This can make the film seem unbalanced.
Compared to Eight Legged Freaks, the spider in this film comes across well, because it is often more in the shadows, so that the CGI with which it is placed in the film is not so noticeable. When the spider has a large size, it appears less programming and the CGI is more noticeable.
Alyla Browne gives a nice performance as a girl who increasingly begins to feel lonely after changes in her family life. Her character is just not that interesting in the film, she often wants to follow things on her phone or share them on social media. It seems that after the spider starts to become more bloodthirsty, they can no longer really take responsibility for the spider's actions. The other characters are also not very well developed or interesting to follow.