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Sting Reviews
It’s easily forgettable and doesn’t do much with its creature.
A vintage effort that, without the crutches of nostalgia, manages to offer some scares and laughs for every family member. Creative filmmaking with real spark that's keenly aware of it's limitations. [Full review in Spanish]
This brand of horror is guaranteed to stick with you if you have an aversion to spiders.
What makes Sting frustratingly disappointing is that there are flashes of brilliance.
...[Sting is] packed with scares, goo, and cobwebs in the retro style of the all-ages monster movies starring Joe Dante, Fred Dekker, or Ron Underwood... [Full review in Spanish]
If you’re in the proper, preferably mildly buzzed headspace, you won’t be stung by Sting.
Like most films in this genre, what the viewer gets out of Sting will depend on what they put into it. Personally I think this is ‘one of the good ones’.
This is not a super scary film, but it’s a fun one, one that could easily be a kid’s entry in the genre, but also one adults can enjoy easily.
There are some solid old-school B-movie thrills to be had, but <i>Sting</i> is less successful in weaving a family drama into its web.
Sting is not the most original, but it features some good performances and if you’re an arachnophobe, it should provide you will all the terror you could want.
While it would be untrue of me to say that Sting is a film you should avoid, because there is some enjoyable stuff in there, just know what you’re getting into – especially if, like me, you absolutely cannot abide massive bugs in any corner of reality.
Kiah Roache-Turner’s Sting is a mix of b-movie cheese and Spielbergian earnestness that, unfortunately, yields mixed results.
Roache-Turner deserves a lot of credit for both recapturing and poking fun at the throwback creature features of old. He’s able to have us laughing one minute while making our skin crawl the next.
Sting certainly gets a few points for at least trying to give us some characters to care about, but like many other horror films out there, what it truly needed was a good old fashioned dose of originality to bring it to life.
A crowd pleaser in all the right moments, Sting is the kind of horror film you watch in a packed theater full of fellow horror fans.
Sting isn’t going to blow anybody away, but it’s got enough legs to deliver a satisfying creature feature with surprisingly strong visual effects. The monster is on full-display and it’s design and depiction are equally terrifying.
It would be easy to dismiss the film as just another piece of anti-spider propaganda if it wasn’t such a fun, effective, tightly wound creature feature...
All in all, a diverting entertainment that, unlike so much contemporary horror, is prepared to have a good time. Fun for all the family. Well, all the family over 16.
… a fast-paced, thrilling monster mash …
Sting is the cinematic equivalent of a spider bite.