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‘Sting’ Review: A Giant Spider Grows in Brooklyn in a Knowingly Cheeseball Indie Horror Trifle
A knowingly cheeseball indie horror trifle borrows from "Alien," but the movie it conjures most is "Little Shop of Horrors."
The spider, it turns out, is an alien — after a gruesome prologue with lots of whooshing “Evil Dead” camera movement, the movie cuts to four days earlier, when a fiery meteorite crashes through an apartment roof and into a dollhouse in the home of Helga (Noni Hazlehurst), a cantankerous German grandma with dementia. You could make the case, though, that the original first slasher film was “The Little Shop of Horrors.” The entire movie, of course, was a goof, a schizoid cardboard Vaudeville horror burlesque shot in two days and a night by Roger Corman. They’re creating a comic book together, but he’s the super of the building, working for Gunter (Robyn Nevin), his wife’s Teutonic cartoon of an aunt, and the misery of his existence starts to tear apart his fragile male ego.
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