#Sting movie

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Sting (2024) dir. Kiah Roache-Turner

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Tiny Review: Sting 2024. Middling monster in the house horror.

Good enough not to be considered a B-movie. But also nothing groundbreaking. It’s a well-executed production.

Sting is a 2024 horror film written and directed by Kiah Roache-Turner, and starring Ryan Corr, Alyla Browne, Penelope Mitchell, Robyn Nevin, Noni Hazelhurst, Silvia Colloca, Danny Kim, and Jermaine Fowler. 

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HORROR VILLAIN TOURNEY 2024, ROUND ONE MATCH 4: Sting (Sting) vs. Longlegs (Longlegs)

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Podia ser um novo "Aracnofobia", mas passou longe: "Sting", de 2024

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#StingMovie (2024), #horror, #scifi, #thriller film showing in cinemas, focuses on a 12-year-old girl named Charlotte who secretly raises a small alien spider as pet. This bug quickly transforms into a gigantic carnivorous monster, forcing the young woman to fight for the survival of her family. 🕷️

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STING

April 12 2024

Dir. Kiah Roache-Turner

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Sting is available to rent or to buy on Amazon Prime on their in cinema’s premier

Now do I rent it or buy it?

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Rest day movie review we have watched “Sting”

It was absolutely brilliant has that classic early 90s horror style without forced nostalgia let me not even touch too much on that we can save that for another conversation

Sting is similar to one of my favourite movies “Life” if you haven’t seen that add it too your list

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New horror movie review

New review up on thefilmagazine.com. Anyone afraid of spiders?

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⭐️⭐️1/2

I wasn’t expecting much going in to STING, and I got exactly that. I’m a horror gay to my core, so I wasn’t about to pass up this latest creature feature, but with creature features it’s always a coin toss. The audience lost.

Not that it’s bad, exactly. There’s just a far better monster story hidden in the ventilation shafts of this script than we get in the end product. And that is always disappointing.

The story follows Charlotte (played winningly by Alyla Browne), a little girl who finds an alien that crash landed in her run down apartment complex and takes it home to live with her. Oh, and the alien looks remarkably like a Black Widow spider. Real pet material in a household with a new baby! Speaking of the new baby, there is a far-too-sentimental-for-this-film subplot involving Charlotte’s relationship with her stepdad, Ethan (hunky daddy Ryan Corr) that goes exactly how you expect.

That’s where my issues with the film really start. The film is tonally inconsistent to the extent I think my brain was starting to get whiplash by the end of the brisk ninety minute runtime. In a lot of ways, this is definitely an R-rated creature feature that promises to get mean with a healthy amount of black humor as icing on the cake. Then you start to realize it was all a fake out. As the spider-like creature grows exponentially larger and the body count starts to climb, the film starts pulling its punches. There is a late third act reveal that was so illogical within the rules that the story had laid out that I groaned out loud.

There also is an elderly woman with dementia that is played for laughs from start to finish. I personally have a very dark sense of humor and found it extremely funny, but at the same time was thinking that it was a bit in poor taste. Add to this that the story is set in New York for no apparent reason - this literally could take place anywhere - and while there is diversity displayed onscreen, the portrayal is so stereotypical it borders on offensive at worst, lazy writing at best.

I know I’ve been prattling on about what didn’t work, but there IS good here! The creature design is quite good, and gets a lot of mileage out of the primal fear of very large arachnids. The kill/attack scenes had me grinning from ear to ear. The creature feature and horror elements worked, it was exactly what I wanted from a film like this. The performances I also enjoyed for the most part with what little they were given to work with, I was genuinely invested in Corr and Browne’s relationship and journey, predictable as it may have been, the actors sold it sufficiently and played well off of each other.

At the end of the day, I had a fun time at the movies with my friends watching a silly story about a giant spider. I’ve seen far worse creature features, but this was largely forgettable. Stay home and watch ARACHNOPHOBIA instead.

2.5/5

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"STING" First Trailer

Check the first trailer for Kiah Roache Turner‘s (Wyrmwood) new film Sting. About the film One cold, stormy night in New York City, a mysterious object falls from the sky and smashes through the window of a rundown apartment building. It is an egg, and from this egg emerges a strange little spider… The creature is discovered by Charlotte, a rebellious 12-year-old girl obsessed with comic books.…

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On the set of Dune (1983)

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Having an awful brain blast moment tonight. I remember fucking none of "The Emperor's New Groove" from when I saw it as a youngun. Rewatched it tonight. Realized that, as a kid, I assumed Pacha and Kronk were supposed to be the same guy in different clothes. If you assume this is true it makes the plot kind of hard for a child to follow.

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Robert Redford as Johnny Hooker in THE STING (1973) dir. George Roy Hill