Writer-director Kiah Roache-Turner spends too much time on the relationships of the main characters in his creature feature Sting for them to just be anonymous monster food, but he doesn't give them ...

Sting fails to fully embrace the potential of a murderous spider, getting bogged down in a poorly written family drama. The film sporadically succeeds in capturing the absurdity of a killer spider, ...

Despite its confusing title (no, this is not about the lead singer of The Police) and disappointingly trite ending, Kiah Roache-Turner’s low-budget Australian creature feature merges fun and thrills ...

Special effects legend Richard Taylor has five Oscars under his belt, but he just wants to make big, gross puppets. Taylor is the founder of Wētā Workshop, which, among countless other titles, created ...

Kiah Roache-Turner’s Sting endeavors to be TV dinner horror. Warm, comfortable, familiar, and perhaps most importantly, accessible. Amblin-esque in sensibility (though considerably more violent), the ...

Of all the things in the world that creep people out — snakes, rats, Taco Bell — spiders have to be near the top. So naturally, horror movies take advantage of that. How could they not? It’s a ...