Stung

Stung (2015)

Get inside, get away, just don't get stung.

A fancy garden party turns into upper class prey when a colony of killer wasps mutates into seven foot tall predators.

Date of release
2015-07-03
TMDB
5.3 / 10 (212)
Runtime
1h 27m
Genres
Horror, Comedy, Science Fiction
Director
Benni Diez

Casting

Interesting facts

Stung is a 2015 science fiction comedy horror film directed by Benni Diez, written by Adam Aresty, and starring Matt O'Leary, Jessica Cook, Lance Henriksen, Clifton Collins Jr., Cecilia Pillado and Eve Slatner. In the film, a fancy garden party is thrown into chaos when killer wasps mutate into 7 ft (2.1 m)-tall predators and go on a grisly rampage.

Production

The script for Stung was Adam Aresty's winning submission to a screenwriting contest launched by the German production company Rat Pack in cooperation with Fantasy Filmfest. The story was inspired by a period when his life was shut down by a wasp attack. In the Robinson interview, Benni Diez said his manager sent him Arresty's script and he loved it.

The project took about three and a half years to complete. Diez was excited to work on it, and "luckily enough" a friend worked at a production company. In 2012, Diez shot a 90-second teaser trailer for Stung "for a couple of bucks" to convince people he could create giant wasps of "sufficient quality", which lead to the feature being financed as a German-American co-production.

With no casting director, casting for the low-budget genre film took a long time; "name" actors are careful about "which corner they want to put themselves in later on" when it comes to a film about seven-foot wasps. Diez and Aresty approached a few actors for the role of Mayor Caruthers.

Asked why he took the role, Henriksen said: "I love humor" and relished the chance to play a burnt out "loser" politician: "I have had a lifetime of listening to politicians, and all of their b.s. and all their manipulations and everything else, with the pretense".

Both Henriksen's character and Sydney, played by Clifton Collins Jr., evolved from the actors. When Diez first spoke with him over the phone, Henriksen had "really smart ideas" about his character, how to make it more realistic and funny: "A lot of the humor that's in the scenes with him comes from his ideas ...

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