Wyrmwood Road of the Dead and Wyrmwood: Apocalypse director Kiah Roache-Turner recently wrapped production on his latest horror movie, the spider-themed Sting, and while the project racks up international distribution deals The Hollywood Reporter has gotten their hands on the first image from the film! You can check it out at the bottom of this article… and yes, it features a spider.
Scripted by Roache-Turner, Sting has the following lengthy synopsis: One cold, stormy night in New York City, a mysterious object falls from the sky and smashes through the window of a rundown apartment building. It is an egg, and from this egg emerges a strange little spider… The creature is discovered by Charlotte, a rebellious 12-year-old girl obsessed with comic books. Despite her stepfather Ethan’s best efforts to connect with her through their comic book co-creation Fang Girl, Charlotte feels isolated. Her mother and Ethan are distracted by their new baby and are struggling to cope, leaving Charlotte to bond with the spider. Keeping it as a secret pet, she names it Sting. As Charlotte’s fascination with Sting increases, so does its size. Growing at a monstrous rate, Sting’s appetite for blood becomes insatiable. Neighbors’ pets start to go missing, and then the neighbors themselves. Soon Charlotte’s family and the eccentric characters of the building realize that they are all trapped, hunted by a ravenous supersized arachnid with a taste for human flesh… and Charlotte is the only one who knows how to stop it.
Despite the New York City setting, Sting was filmed in Sydney.
The film stars Ryan Corr (House of the Dragon), Alyla Browne (Three Thousand Years of Longing), Penelope Mitchell (Hellboy), Robyn Nevin (Top of the Lake), Noni Hazlehurst (The End), and Jermaine Fowler (Retreat).
Sting was produced by Jamie Hilton and Michael Pontin of See Pictures and Chris Brown of Pictures in Paradise. Funding was provided by create NSW, cumulous VFX, Spectrum Entertainment, Align, and Screen Australia. Cornerstone is handling distribution sales – and according to The Hollywood Reporter, Sting has already landed the following deals: StudioCanal (the U.K., Australia, New Zealand, France, Germany, Switzerland, Benelux), Lucky Red (Italy), Diamond Films (Latin America, Spain, Portugal), Nordisk (Scandinavia), Kinoswiat (Poland), Pasatiempo Pictures (Baltics, CIS), Karantanija (Ex-Yugoslavia), Italia (Middle East), Filmfinity (South Africa), and Terry Steiner International (airlines).
Are you interested in Sting? Let us know by leaving a comment below. I enjoyed the Wyrmwood movies, so I will definitely be watching this one.
Here’s the first image from Sting: