Rent Sting (2024)

Fun Filled Horror - Sting review by GI

This enjoyable creature-feature is a bit of a throwback film reminiscent of the 50s cycle of giant creature stories and it's all played for larks with the director, Kiah Roache-Turner, displaying his fanboyish love of a host of other films not least Predator, the Alien series and of course Arachnophobia. But all that's ok because it adds to the fun of the film which comes along with plenty of neat jump scares and a well presented creature. This is a spider which arrives in a tiny meteor into the apartment building of 12 year old Charlotte (Alya Browne). She finds it and not knowing its origins thinks it'll make a cool pet and keeps it in a jar calling it 'Sting'. But it grows rather quickly and is soon meandering around the heating ducts of the building killing pets and then of course people. The script throws in some family tensions and there's the quintessential baby that's going to need protecting. It's all strongly derivative of Alien, Aliens and Alien 3 but it makes for a fun horror film.