Name: Stung (2015)
IMDb: link to IMDb
Genres: Horror Country of Origin: Germany, USA.
Cast: Matt O'Leary as Paul, Lance Henricksen as Mayor Carruthers, Clifton Collins as Sydney Perch, Jessica Cook as Julia, Eve Slatner as Mrs Perch, Benni Diez as Firefighter, Cecilia Pillado as Flora.
Directed by: Benni Diez. Written by: Adam Aresty.
The initial tableaux: The rich widow Mrs Perch holds an annual garden party at her country estate. This year is a bit different. Her gardeners have been using dubious fertilizer boosted by growth hormones. The fertilizer has spread here and there. Developing wasps have been super-duper-hyper mutated by this into seven foot monsters. Two caterers, Julia and Paul, are at the party when this happens. They attempt to remedy the wasp situation.
Delineation of conflicts: The mutant wasps like to lay eggs, and have bigger appetites than the original version. The human beings in the area would like to continue living.
Resolution: Elimination derbies end in only a few ways.
One line summary: Creature feature about giant mutant wasps.
Statistics:
a. Cinematography: 7/10 The setting is beautiful: the trees, the lawns, the cultivated plants, the greenhouse, and so on. The CGI wasps were not so well done or convincing, but were not terrible.
b. Sound: 7/10 The sounds of the wasps in flight were pretty good at increasing tension and threat. I could hear the dialog.
c. Acting: 6/10 Matt O'Leary was mighty irritating early on, but got better when the situation became dire. Lance Henriksen, one of my usual favourites, seemed a bit tired and out of it, but still showed his abilities in several passages. Clifton Collins was his usual self, but put on a good spin as the unhappy and despised son of the rich old lady. Jessica Cook did her best. Much of the rest of the cast was not that good.
d. Screenplay: 7/10 The script and direction does a good job of convincing me that all or most of the characters should die miserably and as soon as possible. That is good for elimination derbies. It was also good at deepening the central characters to the point where I was rooting for some of them to make it to the end.
Final rating: 7/10
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