Sting Will Make Us All Arachnophobic, See The Skin-Crawling Proof
Judging from the creepy trailer just released, the upcoming release of the horror film Sting is about to generate a massive wave of arachnophobia. The teaser, though less than two minutes in length, packs enough horrifying run-ins with large and hungry eight-legged crawlies that are sure to send shivers up and down the spines of anyone even remotely bothered by arachnids. The Sting movie is already generating a lot of hype and is ready to give audiences shudders about spiders for the first time since the 1990 film Arachnophobia.
The Sting movie centers around a 12-year-old girl named Charlotte (perhaps a nod to the E.B. White character from the book Charlotte’s Web) who discovers a small spider that was recently hatched from an egg that dropped from the sky. Charlotte lives a life of near isolation, her parents are quite busy taking care of her newborn sibling. She begins caring for the spider, keeping it alive inside a jar and feeding it bugs that she’s captured.
The Sting movie trailer highlights amazing special effects that make the onscreen terror enough to make everyone suffer from arachnophobia.
The spider in the Sting movie, aptly named Sting, begins to grow and grow. It’s able to make its way out of the confines of the jar so that it can feed itself on larger prey. The bigger the spider gets, the more it needs to eat to survive.
Soon, small pets belonging to the neighbors in Charlotte’s apartment building begin to disappear. But the victims in the Sting movie soon move beyond domesticated animals. Charlotte’s human neighbors also become prey for Sting, setting up some pretty gruesome deaths on screen.
The Sting movie looks to go much further with the onscreen gore than Arachnophobia ever did…
Sting soon grows to a size that is unmanageable and stows away inside the ductwork of the apartment building, giving the giant spider easier access to its unsuspecting prey inside. As the Sting movie unfolds more, only Charlotte has the knowledge that will help destroy the spider once and for all. That is if she and the building’s survivors can work together in time to save them all from the horrifying fate of being Sting’s lunch.
The Sting movie trailer highlights amazing special effects that make the onscreen terror enough to make everyone suffer from arachnophobia. Engineered by the Academy-Award-winning special effects folks at Weta Workshop, Sting, and the victims it claims, add a creepy sense of realism to a film whose subject matter will already make many people squirm in their theater seats. The trailer alone is enough to make you feel like something is slowly crawling on your skin, so imagine how the film itself might leave you feeling.
The Sting movie will infest movie theaters on May 2.
The film seems to have earned its R rating, most likely due to the graphic violence and horrific elements displayed. The Sting movie looks to go much further with the onscreen gore than Arachnophobia ever did, though just the thought of a giant spider is enough to frighten many people, even without imagery.
The Sting movie stars Alyla Brown (The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart), Penelope Mitchell (Hellboy), Ryan Corr (Catching Dust), and Jermaine Fowler (Coming 2 America). In the director’s chair for the production was Kiah Roache-Turner, familiar amongst horror fans as the director of the zombie films Wyrmwood: Road of the Dead and Wyrmwood: Apocalypse. It has been slated for theatrical release on May 2, 2024.
