Sting 2024 Home Premiere Review

4 star cleverly comedic creature feature.

Sting is a 2024 Australian comedy horror film, written and directed by Kiah Roache-Turner (Nekrotronic).

It is coming to Home Premiere from 15th July 2024, courtesy of Studio Canal.

“114 Cypress? Haven’t I talked to you before? Ain’t you that lady with the f**ked up parrot?”

Charlotte (Alyla Browne – The Secret Kingdom, True Spirit) is a rebellious young girl, living in an run-down apartment building In South Brooklyn with her mother Heather (Penelope Mitchell – Hellboy, What You Wish For) and step father Ethan (Ryan Corr – Catching Dust, High Ground), as well as her baby brother Liam.

She likes to visit the other apartments through the vent system, especially the one upstairs inhabited by her forgetful grandmother Helga (Noni Hazlehurst – June Again, Ladies in Black) and great aunt Gunter (Robyn Nevin – Relic, Gods of Egypt). It is on one such excursion that she finds a tiny spider that has crashed through the window in a strange glowing sphere and decides to take it home and keep it as a pet. A big fan of The Hobbit, she calls it Sting.

It soon becomes apparent that it is more intelligent than your average spider, as well as having a massively increased growth rate. As strange occurrences begin to befall the local residents and pets, Helga calls in exterminator Frank (Jermaine Fowler – Sorry to Bother You, The Drop) and Charlotte seeks counsel from the resident biologist Erik (Danny Kim – Born to Spy). What is this creature and will they be able to stop it?

“#spiderbeast #pet #sting”

Sting is a very entertaining film to watch. You can’t beat a good arachnophobia inciting creature feature and this one does it really well. While it is a low budget production, it is clear that a large amount of that was spent on the spider, which never misses the mark and is pretty scary.

It doesn’t take itself too seriously either, with plenty of jokes and more horror sci-fi references than you can shake a stick at, very good. The acting is also excellent, especially from Alyla Browne and Jermaine Fowler and of course, star turns from the resident parrot, cat and dog.

It might not change the face of cinema, but it’s a good solid hour and a half and certainly worth a watch if you love horror and fancy a good laugh.

“You called The Bug Brothers to redo my work? This is my block, not The Bug Brothers. They’re not even actual brothers. They’re just two Bulgarian dudes who met in prison. They’re criminals.”