Stung (2015) on Netflix
NR20151h 27mActionAdventureComedy
Catering owner Julia brings her employee Paul to Mrs. Perch's remote estate to cater an annual garden party. Fertilizer in the soil has turned the local wasps into seven-foot predators.
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- Netflix2.7/5
- IMDb5.1/105,597 votes
- Rotten Tomatoes56%
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Plot summary
Julia owns a catering business, and Paul works under her. Their job is a small party at the isolated New York estate where Mrs. Perch lives with her son Sydney, an annual affair honoring the family's late patriarch, with the town mayor, Caruthers, among the guests. Fertilizer Mrs. Perch imported illegally, mixed with growth hormones, has seeped into the ground and changed a local parasitic wasp species into creatures seven feet long. The wasps descend on the celebration, and Paul, Julia, Caruthers, Sydney, Mrs. Perch and the cook Flora take shelter inside the house. A car crash outside has knocked out the phone lines, leaving them unable to call the police.
Cast
- Ceciiia Pilladoas Flora
- Benedikt Botheas Gardener 1
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Stung (2015)
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- Lance Henriksen was cast as Mayor Caruthers after Diez and Aresty had already approached several actors; the director asked the producers to try Henriksen on a whim, expecting a refusal: "He's not going to do it, but let's just ask him."
- In developing Mayor Caruthers, Lance Henriksen modeled the character on Toronto mayor Rob Ford, reputed to have openly smoked crack cocaine or other drugs, imagining him as a politician having a nervous breakdown.
- In 2012, Benni Diez shot a 90-second teaser trailer for Stung "for a couple of bucks" to prove he could create giant wasps of "sufficient quality"; it led to the feature being financed as a German-American co-production.
- Adam Aresty's script for Stung was his winning entry to a screenwriting contest run by the German company Rat Pack with Fantasy Filmfest, and it was inspired by a period when a wasp attack shut down his life.
- The wasps' bodies and close-ups were real puppets while their wings and more distant shots were computer-generated, because, as Diez put it, "you can't wire-control the bodies any more, because then you would see the puppeteer."
- Effects artists based the giant wasps on the real tarantula wasp, which lays its eggs in tarantulas as hosts, because it was lean, black and strong-legged and "already looks like an alien, kind of."
