Stung
Directed by Bennie Diez. Written by Adam Aresty
As 2020 continues to roll along, we roll right along with it from one insane disaster to another. Right now besides rona doing its thing we have murder hornets. I figured why not indulge in a film that celebrates the utterly nightmarish idea of hornets so large and vicious to appear out of a horror movie. Stung is that movie.
Stung is a 2015 horror comedy where a catering crew working a party at a mansion way out in the boondocks are attacked by hornets. These are not your ordinary hornets. These hornets are genetic experiments and their victims become hornets themselves.
It's a simple enough premise and the groundwork laid down in the beginning is just enough to get you invested in the protagonists and be wary of others. It has the perfect simple opening for a movie of this type. It doesn't bog you down with unnecessary extra detail. It doesn't tie this event to some tragic event in their past. They are humans with lives outside of this story but it isn't so tragic that it breaks them down and they can't continue with life unless they confront this event. Monster hornets are the problem. Don't become one and try to survive. So clean. So nice.
This movie is a dream for practical effects lovers. I was quite jazzed myself when I realized they were going for the strictly practical avenue. The mutated hornets that erupt from their victims are vicious and they are feisty versions of the ant from Honey I Shrunk the Kids. They make the same sounds. I think the movies are using the same sound effects for these types of creatures.
Everything about this movie is over the top. It is played at the heightened emotions present in such a crazy situation. It is also gory, gooey fun. I figured why not celebrate this underseen ode to mutated monstrous hornets. This flick does get pretty wild especially once the hornets turn the mansion into their nest. A murder hornet hellscape if you will.
I recommend this movie. It is currently streaming at Hulu. It stars the kid from Frailty all grown up, Clifton Collins Jr who you will know when you see and the great Lance Henriksen in what's more than a cameo. That's always appreciated. Stung knows what to do with a legend such as him unlike both Grey's Anatomy and Legends of Tomorrow. They wasted him like he was a nobody. So angry about that. Respect Frank Black. I give this movie a B.
As 2020 continues to roll along, we roll right along with it from one insane disaster to another. Right now besides rona doing its thing we have murder hornets. I figured why not indulge in a film that celebrates the utterly nightmarish idea of hornets so large and vicious to appear out of a horror movie. Stung is that movie.
Stung is a 2015 horror comedy where a catering crew working a party at a mansion way out in the boondocks are attacked by hornets. These are not your ordinary hornets. These hornets are genetic experiments and their victims become hornets themselves.
It's a simple enough premise and the groundwork laid down in the beginning is just enough to get you invested in the protagonists and be wary of others. It has the perfect simple opening for a movie of this type. It doesn't bog you down with unnecessary extra detail. It doesn't tie this event to some tragic event in their past. They are humans with lives outside of this story but it isn't so tragic that it breaks them down and they can't continue with life unless they confront this event. Monster hornets are the problem. Don't become one and try to survive. So clean. So nice.
This movie is a dream for practical effects lovers. I was quite jazzed myself when I realized they were going for the strictly practical avenue. The mutated hornets that erupt from their victims are vicious and they are feisty versions of the ant from Honey I Shrunk the Kids. They make the same sounds. I think the movies are using the same sound effects for these types of creatures.
Everything about this movie is over the top. It is played at the heightened emotions present in such a crazy situation. It is also gory, gooey fun. I figured why not celebrate this underseen ode to mutated monstrous hornets. This flick does get pretty wild especially once the hornets turn the mansion into their nest. A murder hornet hellscape if you will.
I recommend this movie. It is currently streaming at Hulu. It stars the kid from Frailty all grown up, Clifton Collins Jr who you will know when you see and the great Lance Henriksen in what's more than a cameo. That's always appreciated. Stung knows what to do with a legend such as him unlike both Grey's Anatomy and Legends of Tomorrow. They wasted him like he was a nobody. So angry about that. Respect Frank Black. I give this movie a B.