Director Kiah Roache-Turner clearly loves monstrous animals. Not only is he currently up in he tropics shooting his World War II shark movie, Beast of War, but his creepy crawly thriller Sting is creeping onto your home screens.
How to watch Sting in Australia
Sting is now available to rent and/or buy in Australia at all the usual digital storefronts.
Sting (2024)
What is Sting about?
A bloody great spider! Comin’ atcha!
No, really. We find ourselves in the rundown apartment where feisty tween Charlotte and her mixed family, including mum Heather, stepfather Ethan, and baby half-brother Liam, live. Things are a bit tense, as occasionally happens with blended broods, and Charlotte puts all her affection into the cute lil baby spider she’s found. She’s a good arachno-mum too, because little Sting, as she dubs him, starts growing…and growing. Then neighbourhood pets start disappearing. And then…well, it’s a horror movie, right? You can connect the dots.
Thinking about it, it’s a bit like Labyrinth if David Bowie had eight arms instead of the world’s most famous codpiece.
The cast of Sting
Alyla Browne, who you saw (or not, looking at the box office) as baby Furiosa in Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga, is Charlotte; Ryan Corr (Holding the Man, House of the Dragon) is Ethan; Penelope Mitchell (Star Trek: Picard) is Heather; Robyn Nevin (Relic) is Gunter; Noni Hazelhurst (c’mon, you know her) is Helga; and Silvia Colloca, Danny Kim, Jermaine Fowler, Tony Black, and Lee Perry are also caught on the menu. Twins Jett and Kade Berry, who play baby Liam, probably aren’t, because this doesn’t strike us as that mean-spirited a movie.
Sting trailer
Why we’re excited about Sting
It’s been a while since we had a killer spider movie, hasn’t it? Arachnophobia and Eight Legged Freaks were a while back, and there’s something in our monkey brains that just recoils from the creepy little buggers (but they keep the insects down, so lay off with the double plugger). Still, actual arachnophobes might want to skip this one.
