63%User score 63 percent
Case 39
2009 · Horror · Mystery
User Score
545 votes
Your biggest fear just got bigger.
After raising an unnervingly talented spider in secret, 12-year-old Charlotte must face the truth about her pet and fight for her family's survival.
Recommendations based on this film
MovieGuys
May 17, 2024
Sting is a decent little by the numbers horror. A dark take on the novel Charlotte's Web, Sting offers up a skin crawlingly, creepy horror experience. Its struggling middle class, suburban setting, with the usual issues you might find in any home, is starkly contrasted with an alien, other worldly, eight legged horror. This film is simple but well done. It sensibly starts off, quite literally, small and then grows, g…
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CinemaSerf
May 28, 2024
Nope, it's not very original - but it does have "Granny Helga" (Noni Hazlehurst)! It's the worst snow storm in ages and she summons poor old bug-hunter "Frank" (Jermaine Fowler) to investigate some noises coming from within her apartment walls. He turns up, despite the sub-zero temperatures, and pretty soon appears to be part of the problem! What's going on? Well we skip back a few days and discover that a meteor sto…
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r96sk
June 6, 2024
Good viewing. <em>'Sting'</em> gave me what I desired, albeit without properly enthralling me at any point. It's a well done horror flick, I do prefer these sorta ones where it is more the characters getting unsettled rather than the audience with cheap jump scares etc. The run time of around 90 minutes is astutely chosen, also. The cast are positives. Alyla Browne produces a sturdy showing, while Ryan Corr is good t…
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Dr Nostromo
May 11, 2026
71/100 A young teenage girl captures an extraterrestrial spider that proceeds to get really big and really hungry, really fast. Here's a creature feature I had a great time watching. It's a slower burn than one might think as it spends a large amount of time on the characters, which is probably why it didn't get very high ratings. But for me, the characters were all quite likable, a bit quirky and were dealing with r…
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