Nerds That Geek Movie Review: ‘Stung’

Written by Scott Edwards

​Sometimes you need to stick with your convictions, no matter what they are. If you let go of your goals, you could find yourself falling back into the same declining spiral that you have been trying to get out of for so long. It does not matter what you think will happen, even if you step away from them for even a day, you will find out that it will set you back even further. Keep your eyes open and on the prize at the end of the tunnel, because if you don’t claim it, someone else will.

Julia has just inherited her father’s catering business and is afraid that she is going to lose it. Without any supervision, she is in charge and wants to make sure that it does not fold with her in the driver’s seat. With her friend and only employee Paul, she knows that she and the business are in trouble, but there are still job offers, so she is able to keep herself afloat. Driving out to the Perch estate to cater a rich folk dinner party, she knows that there is no chance for messing up.

While Paul is out setting up the tables, chairs and bar for the event, he is starting to get pestered by wasps that are as big as his fist. Not knowing what has excited them, he goes along with his job of pouring drinks for the guests and finds that not all of them are there for the same reason. When Sydney Perch gives his thank you speech for everyone that has decided to come, Paul and Julia meet Governor Caruthers who will be needing them to cater one of his events as well. Thinking that everything is going to get better, Julia steps into the wasps’ nest and releases them on all of the guests.

When a guest falls sick to a sting, the party comes to a halt, but little do the guests know what is about to happen next. Watching as the party goer’s body convulses in pain, a new breed of wasp is unleashed, and it is much bigger than a fist. While everyone tries to find cover from the bug attack, the stung guests turn into the larger predators and have the need to feed on their human counterparts. Being able to hide in the basement, Paul, Julia, Caruthers and Sydney need to find a way to escape the oversized menace that has taken over the estate. Finding out that Sydney is responsible for the outbreak, combining fertilizer with his father’s growth hormone pills, the group starts to understand their fate. But Sydney has a secret of his own and being stung on his hump is providing him with a different outlook on life than the others. In a race against time, Paul and Julia have to find a way out of the hive before they become its next victims.

You ever need to laugh about how the term wasps is used, this is the movie for you since WASPS are killed off by actual wasps. Each character has their own motivation and none of them are the same which makes this movie a little bit special. As Sydney seems to go through all of the emotions, it comes clear that he just wants somebody to love him for who he is. While Paul wants to make his move on Julia before time runs out and has to show what he is made of against the flying beasts that are looking to kill and eat everyone. I really enjoyed the awkward interactions between Paul and Julia since Paul does not seem to understand how to put on the moves, and when he tries, Julia pretty much shuts him down before he can say another word. The effects are solid in this movie and the blood, oh the blood flows like nothing you have ever seen before. A can of RAID won’t be able to take these flying beasts down, you have to find something a little bit more flammable, but you will understand why when the end of the movie hits the screen. Stay Scared.

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