After raising an unnervingly talented spider in secret, 12-year-old Charlotte must face the facts about her pet-and fight for her family’s survival.

I’m a sucker for a creature-feature, so watching this was a no brainer.

I’ll be honest with you, I wasn’t really expecting much going into this. I find films about killer spiders to be very hit and miss and nothing has ever really got under my skin like “Arachnaphobia” managed to do when I watched it as a kid.

Luckily for viewers it seems the cast and crew really wanted to make an entertaining feature and that effort is well and truly shown on the screen, if like me you yourself are a fan of creature-features then I’m sure you’ll appreciate that effort too.

The cast of the film do a great job and there’s a few quirky characters that you warm to which I thought were wrote really well. Talking of writing, the story itself is more than just a one dimensional killer animal script which I really appreciated.

The setting of the film is great, limiting it to one location makes for that claustraphobic atmosphere that I’m a huge fan of. Also, the effects in the film are extremely well done and will satisfy any Horror fan out there looking for a fun viewing.

“Sting” is an entertaining film, nothing more, nothing less and there’s nothing wrong with it being just that. So, just sit back and enjoy.

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If you want to see the “Sting” trailer then just click on the video below:

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Miscellaneous facts about the film:

Charlotte names the spider Sting after seeing a copy of J.R.R. Tolkein’s The Hobbit. Sting is not the name of a spider in the Hobbit, rather the sword Bilbo uses to fight the spiders.

Charlotte’s name is more than likely a reference to Charlotte’s Web, another story about a clever spider.

First film directed by Kiah Roache-Turner to be set in the United States, as opposed to his native Australia.

Sting the spider is very much like the Australian red back spider which is one of the most venomous spiders.

The bulk of the spider effects were done practically.