Stung (2015)

As everyone knows, bees are essential, wasps are just evil, and massive killer mutant wasps are just not what you want at your upper class garden party.

Stung, as you have probably guessed is about massive mutant killer wasps, the type that usually lay their eggs into hosts, so when they grow to 7ft long a nice fleshy human is just about the right size.

Nothing shocking here, it's a good old fashioned monster movie with a good dose of humour and slapstick thrown in. Along with gore and violence, obviously.

The mutant lay their eggs into the panicking guests of a garden party, which seem to have an incubation time of about an hour while a giant wasp grows inside the host who despite probably having all their internal parts blended about seem to be perfectly normal until it bursts out.

Young potential couple Paul and Julia are the catering staff that wage the war against the beasts.

There's a good hint of the Aliens franchise here (possibly though only because of the reproduction methods, which were based on wasps) and a fast paced action which won't have you checking your phone.

Special effects are spot on and like all good monster movies it sets the scene for a potential sequel.

7/10 Masks

Language: English
Initial release: July 2, 2015 (USA)
Director: Benjamin Diez
Running time: 1h 30m
Screenplay: Adam Aresty