Stung

2015

Action / Adventure / Comedy / Horror / Sci-Fi / Thriller

13
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 60% · 15 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 25% · 250 ratings
IMDb Rating 5.1/10 10 5378 5.4K

Plot summary

A fancy garden party turns into upper class prey when a colony of killer wasps mutates into seven foot tall predators.

Director

Top cast

Lance Henriksen as Caruthers
Matt O'Leary as Paul
Florentine Lahme as Gweneth
720p.BLU 1080p.BLU
740.84 MB
1280*720
English 2.0
NR
23.976 fps
1 hr 27 min
Seeds 1
1.48 GB
1920*1080
English 2.0
NR
23.976 fps
1 hr 27 min
Seeds 3

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by quincytheodore 5 / 10

Just a pinch of amusement

Stung is a simple cheap thrill, presenting over-the-top characters and gory scenes. It looks rather sloppy, but not without some appeal. The corny set-up have intended humorous acts, they are lightly done and in the spirit of irony. The presentation isn't top notch though, this won't rival smooth delivery of big budget movies, it is good for brief amusement nonetheless.The story follows the crews and attendees of a party, which doesn't take long to completely crumble as monster wasps decide to attack. There's no scientific or dramatic tension like most monster movies, they just appear and wreak havoc. The main characters are the bartender and event planner, they predictably run around trying to fend off these abominations.It plays with exaggerated violence tone, chopping heads and limbs in pretty sadistic manner. It also tries to extract any kind of humor with the bantering script, although this makes the characters rather unrealistic. For the practical and special effects, they are inconsistent in quality. CGI looks like it belongs to average video game, which doesn't really convey too much realism for a movie.Few of the scenes look decent, especially with the bloody dismemberment. However, it can look inauthentic at times. Most of the cinematography involves jittery motion in dark tone, which is unfortunate since the brighter sequences fare better and a large portion of the movie happens in nighttime.Narrative and effect are shoddy at best, but Stung does its job as light popcorn flick. If not anything, at least it provides a couple of giggles.
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Reviewed by Leofwine_draca 5 / 10

Better than expected...

Although no masterpiece, STUNG is an unashamedly old-fashioned monster B-movie that actually turns out to be slightly better than expected; it's certainly better than the level of fare regularly turned out by the SyFy Channel over the last decade or so. The main problem this film has is not with the execution or the effects - which are surprisingly cool - but the moribund attempts at humour in the script, which is full of dumb lines and expletives.

Other than that, it's okay for a B-movie. Killer wasps attack a party, but this is only the beginning of the story as most of the running time is about big, gooey monsters and bodily horror. The special effects thankfully avoid cheesy CGI for the most part and revert back to decent, prosthetic work, which you may remember from the good ol' days of 1990s era horror such as SKEETER or TICKS. Lance Henriksen is the only actor of note here, but he has quite a big part and is unsurprisingly the best thing on the screen.

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