The residents of the apartment building inStingare going to need to get the exterminator onto the scene pronto, as an exclusive to Collider clip shows just a fraction ofthe carnage that awaits audienceswhenthe film arrives on April 12. A regular day is ripped to shreds in the clip as folks living in the building hear a scream of terror from one of their neighbors. Theelderly woman’s parrot has been killed, but not just killed — mauled — by an unknown assailant. With its feathers completely torn from its body, the woman dials the exterminator to get to the bottom of what she believes to be a rat infestation. Arriving on the scene with plenty of tools — including a nail gun — the exterminator explains thatthis was the work of something much smallerthan your run-of-the-mill rodent before the clip cuts out.
Along with depicting some of the danger of creepy crawling inSting, the exclusive clip also shows off some of the production’s leading cast members. Appearing as Gunter, the woman who lost her songbird in the most horrific way possible isRelicstar Robyn Nevin, while the neighbor rushing to her aid only to look on in horror is played byHouse of the Dragon’sRyan Corr. The last character introduced in the teaser is the eccentric exterminator, Frank, played byRicky StanickyandThe Blackening’sJermaine Fowler.
Starring in the eerie horror film not for the morearachnophobicof us isAlyla Browne(Three Thousand Years of Longing), as a 12-year-old girl named Charlotte who finds herself outcast from the rest of her peers. When she finds a spider hatching from an egg that doesn’t look like the rest (here’s your first sign…),she befriends the eight-legged critter and the pair quickly become inseparable. Charlotte’s parents are busy with a new baby, so the spider, lovingly named Sting, grows into the young girl’s closest companion. But,Sting is also growing in other ways, and as he gets bigger, so does his hunger and thirst for blood. Filling out the ensemble arePenelope Mitchell(Hellboy) andNoni Hazlehurst(The End).
Who Else Is Behind ‘Sting’?
With a penchant for blood-soaked shock-fests, it makes sense that Australian filmmakerKiah Roache-Turnerfelt called to both pen and directSting. In the past, the helmer has been the visionary behind suchpost-apocalyptic,zombie-filled titlesas 2015’sWyrmwood: Road of the Dead- which served as his feature-length directorial debut and the jumping-off point for hisWyrmwooduniverse. Since then, he followed up the original project with several productions, including the 2017 shortWyrmwood: Chronicles of the Deadand 2021’s featureWyrmwood: Apocalypse.
Check out Collider’s exclusive clip forStingbelow and watch the carnage unfold when it arrives in theaters on April 12.
