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Summary After raising an unnervingly talented spider in secret, 12-year-old Charlotte must face the facts about her pet—and fight for her family’s survival—when the once-charming creature rapidly transforms into a giant, flesh-eating monster.

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It’s pure horror movie fun. Yet the relationships consistently raise the stakes and elevate the film from the “creature feature” label to the kind of thriller that becomes a fan favorite.

Though its characters and story could've benefited from a deeper, more original development, Roache-Turner ultimately knows what audiences are coming to see and delivers that in droves, offering horrific deaths, a tense atmosphere and stylish direction to entertaining effect.

This movie is a great addition to the horror genre, the ending shows there could be a sequel.

This year's 'Sting' is one of two spider related horror films recently released onto streaming. There's money in those 8 legs!SYNOPSIS: 'After raising an unnervingly talented spider in secret, 12-year-old Charlotte must face the facts about her pet-and fight for her family's survival-when the once-charming creature rapidly transforms into a giant, flesh-eating monster.' 'Sting' is very much modelled on the 80's B list horror creature feature films which used to thrill and terrify me in good measure.This extra terrestrial arachnid tears through the cast of what is a film which feels a bit dated, but is great for some sort of nostalgia value.This film is fine for what it is and plays on the viewers fear of spiders. The problem being I never for a second believed I was seeing a real spider on screen. And that dulls the arachnophobia within me.However, as much as this is a low budget movie, all of the practical and CGI effects look great and very bloody.Camp and silly at times 'Sting' manages to make us care for the principle cast, wallow in their downfall, and eventually, their triumph to survive as a family.Great horror fun!7/10

“Sting” isn’t great fun or great really in any sense. But it’s not bad for a giant spider killer thriller B-movie set in snowy New York and shot in Australia.

Like E.T. gone wrong, director Kiah Roache-Turner’s underdeveloped but briskly suspenseful, suggestive arachno-shocker sees a kid with family issues find solace in alien company. Only this spidery E.T. will gobble you up before it phones home…

Sting is derivative but fitfully gripping. Crucially, it’s also good fun: with a main protagonist named Charlotte (lolz), there’s definitely a knowingness to proceedings.

Sting has a lot of the right ideas but not enough inspiration to string them all together.

There’s decent fun to be had in this crafty and contained Aussie skin-crawler (a low-budget affair that doesn’t scrimp when it comes to its WETA-created monster), but Sting is a bit too small for its massive alien spider to maneuver itself in unexpected ways, and the tender human story that Roache-Turner weaves around her lacks the bite it needs to melt your heart or liquify any of your other organs.

The movie was overall a breath of fresh air from the horror movies I’ve seen, bringing back practical effects and making good use of its small setting and cast. The only negative I had was how infuriatingly long it took for the protagonist to grow on me. Wish there was more of the autistic mad scientist.

Although its reckless use of clichés is annoying, Sting is a very enjoyable movie with its content, design, shooting, and especially character designs. A cheesy horror movie.

Decently fun creature feature with a simple and effective one location setting. The lead male performance is pretty bad but the rest are good, and the climax kind of falls flat.

The Movie was okay. It has it’s hights and lows. As a Horror Movie Fan,this Movie was okay. Not a new idea but a quiet Interesting implementation.

Production Company Align, Pictures in Paradise, See Pictures

Release Date Apr 12, 2024

Duration 1 h 31 m

Rating R

Tagline Your biggest fear just got bigger.