{"id":52419,"date":"2024-05-31T11:00:30","date_gmt":"2024-05-31T09:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/?p=2047497"},"modified":"2024-05-31T11:44:55","modified_gmt":"2024-05-31T09:44:55","slug":"sting-ending-explained-will-there-be-a-sequel","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/rss_feed\/sting-ending-explained-will-there-be-a-sequel\/","title":{"rendered":"Sting ending explained: Will there be a sequel?"},"content":{"rendered":"
Director Kiah Roache-Turner explains what the ending means for possible future films… <\/p>
By Patrick Cremona\n \t\t<\/p>
Published: Friday, 31 May 2024 at 09:00 AM<\/p>
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**WARNING: Contains major spoilers for Sting**<\/strong><\/p>\n
If you have even a hint of arachnophobia, you\u2019d do well to avoid Sting \u2013 the brand new creature feature from Australian writer\/director Kiah Roache-Turner.<\/p>\n
The horror film follows events after a young girl named Charlotte (Alyla Browne)\u00a0adopts a spider that mysteriously appears in her apartment building, only for it to quickly become apparent that this is no ordinary arachnid.<\/p>\n
Not only does the spider \u2013 which she names Sting \u2013 grow to an abnormally huge size, it is also revealed to have a killer touch when it murders an innocent parrot in brutally vicious fashion.<\/p>\n
Of course, it doesn\u2019t stop there: soon Charlotte and her family \u2013 including her stepdad Ethan (Ryan Corr) \u2013 are in grave danger as the spider continues its rampage.<\/p>\n
If you\u2019ve seen the film and need a recap of how it all ends up, you can read on to have the Sting ending explained.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, we also spoke exclusively to Roache-Turner to find out if there are plans to continue the story with another film. Read on for everything you need to know.<\/p>\n
Sting ending explained: How do they kill Sting?<\/strong><\/h2>\n
Ryan Corr as Ethan in Sting.<\/span><\/figcaption>StudioCanal<\/i><\/span><\/div>\n
As Sting continues to grow at an alarming rate, the scale of his attacks escalates until he is successful in trapping Charlotte\u2019s mother, younger sister and Ethan in the apartment building \u2013 which prompts Charlotte to search for the spider and kill it.<\/p>\n
As she sets about this plan, she makes the observation that the spider has not once pestered her grandmother Helga, and surmises that this is due to her constantly smelling of mothballs.<\/p>\n
Armed with this knowledge, Charlotte combines mothballs with water to concoct a potion which she can use to fend off Sting and save her family \u2013 spraying some of it over herself to give her protection.<\/p>\n
She finds Ethan and uses the mothball water to rescue him, and they escape just as pest control guy Frank turns up at the building.<\/p>\n
Charlotte and Ethan continue to do battle with Sting using the remaining mothball water, but Frank \u2013 who is now also in Sting\u2019s sights \u2013 is not very good at keeping his composure, and is ultimately killed.<\/p>\n
In the climatic battle, Ethan is bitten by Sting before Charlotte uses her ingenuity to crush the spider by pressing a button that closes a heavy door directly on top of it<\/strong>.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, despite his brush with death, Ethan is shown to have survived his wounds and he and Charlotte make amends after a falling out earlier in the film, with the whole family reuniting in safety.<\/p>\n
But just as it looks like they\u2019re in the clear, the film ends with the terrifying image of an egg hatching \u2013 revealing that there are more giant spiders where Sting came from. Better get stocked up on those mothballs\u2026<\/p>
Will there be a sequel to Sting?<\/strong><\/h2>\n
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