Highly Suspect Reviews: Sting

STING MOVIE REVIEW
From cult filmmaker Kiah Roache-Turner (Wyrmwood, Nekrotronic) comes Sting, the charming story of a girl and her beloved pet; A pet that happens to be a giant, man-eating spider from outer space. Charlotte (Alyla Browne) is a precocious 12 year old living in an old New York City apartment building with her extended family and eccentric neighbors. Between bonding with her comic book artist stepfather Ethan (Ryan Corr) and exploring the network of air ducts that run through the building, Charlotte seems to have a pretty good life, even if she has the usual pre-teen angst over her parents’ divorce. During a freak snowstorm, a tiny meteor crashes through the apartment window and lands inside an old doll house. But this is no ordinary meteor; it’s actually an egg, and an alien spider immediately hatches out of it. When Charlotte discovers the little creature, she is instantly smitten by it and names it Sting. The first sign that Sting is no ordinary spider is that she can vocalize through cute whistles and chirps. The second clue is that Sting’s size and appetite are growing at an alarming rate. Soon, the neighbor’s pets begin to disappear and before long so do the neighbors. In order to save her family – and possibly the world – Charlotte will have to hunt down Sting and stop her once and for all. Our reviewers Marco, Nathan, and Wright overcome their arachnophobia to review this sentimental horror flick featuring a pint-sized action hero, a surprising amount of gory brutal kills, and impressive practical creature effects from the WETA Workshop.
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DIRECTED BY: Kiah Roache-Turner
STARRING: Jermaine Fowler, Alyla Browne, Ryan Corr, Penelope Mitchell, Silvia Colloca, Noni Hazlehurst, Robyn Nevin, Danny Kim, Alcira Carpio, Tony J. Black, Rowland Holmes,
YOUR REVIEWERS
 
Wright Sulek (Screener Squad, Digital Noise, Highly Suspect Reviews, Trash in the Can, Audio Editor)
Wright hails from the northern suburbs of Dallas, Texas. His passion for filmmaking brought him to Austin to study and make movies. Since then he’s had his hand in acting, writing, and directing his own short films with numerous like-minded film geeks he’s met along his journey. His newest interest has brought him into the podcasting world. He co-hosted a few different movie related podcasts such as ‘And Now This’ and ‘The Match Cut’. He currently co-hosts with longtime friend, Eric Samaniego, where they talk shop about the grimiest, trashiest, lost gems of movies on their show, ‘Trash in the Can’. Wright also guests and hosts reviews on Screener Squad and Highly Suspect Reviews as well as co-hosts Digital Noise with Chris Cox.
 
 
Marco Noyola (Digital Noise, Highly Suspect Reviews, Screener Squad, Audio Editor)
By day, Marco is a mild-mannered office worker, but by night he is a mild-mannered movie watcher. He does other mild-mannered stuff too.
“You don’t need to follow me. You don’t need to follow anybody!”
 
 
 
Nathan Flynn (Screener Squad, Highly Suspect Reviews)
A recent transplant to Austin originally hailing from the wretched hive of scum and villainy that is the Midwest, Nathan Flynn has been a movie super freak since he saw “An American Werewolf in London” way too young and grew up worshipping the James Bond franchise and all things related to Cold War-era spycraft. When he’s not watching movies and being a constant defender of the Tron franchise, he can be found practicing his second biggest love: cooking (having been a chef for 10+ years) and hitting his head up against a desk to write screenplays that nobody reads. He also spearheads his own podcast on the Mission Impossible franchise titled