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Sting - Hurt Less Than Expected

Anyone that knows me, knows I'm pretty arachnophobic. Even tiny spiders freak me out. But, in movies, I'm generally intrigued. Arachnophobia is an amazing movie, IMO. I still can't believe they had spider wranglers on set that kinda' told the spiders where to go and what to do to some extent. Crazy! But I digress. When I saw the poster for Sting, in my head I thought "Oh great. Another Itsy Bitsy 'masterpiece'". In case you can't read between the lines, I didn't think too highly of Itsy Bitsy. However, when we watched Sting, I was pleasantly surprised that it was not a throw-away spider movie. There was actual thought and some craftsmanship put into this. No, it's not going to win Oscars, but it was easily better than expected. So here we go, let's talk about Sting. Image by Horror Movie Blog As soon as the movie started, I thought "Oh wow. That's sooooo original. An alien spider..." and I think the creators knew their tro