Tail Sting

I watched this movie for my Tapes that Time Forgot series on YouTube (the Enthusiast) and am now debating on whether or not I should subject my viewers to this absolute travesty. It's a complete clutter from start to finish, riddled with plot holes, wacky dialogue, and plain old bad scenes. For your sake: DO NOT WATCH THIS MOVIE.

I have a sick weakness for cheesy budget Air Disaster/Mishap/Hijack type scenarios. Tail sting however is just too much. I only paid £0.99 from Tesco Extra (UK supermarket) and even after a further 10% staff discount was applied I consider myself robbed. The movie is too stupid to be serious but doesn't seem to be an attempt at humour either. I can only assume it was made as some kind of straight face challenge. Hard to believe that Amazon are charging £15.99 for it. I was considering listing it on eBay but I don't need any more negative feedback. The best thing about is the case it came in, as I can reuse it for something else.

With so many people reviewing this rarely seen film, I had to check it out. And I am not sorry that I did. While the movie was generally unbelievable, stupid and full of plot holes, the script was pretty decent and maintained interest to the end. The only level on which this movie worked was the generous use of humor and the absurd. Thus, on the boring scale Tail Sting passed, but unless you don't mind laughing at a film, you better look elsewhere. I would like to say that with a little bit more film making expertise, budget and cast, Tail Sting could have been decent, but a major overhaul is needed. Had that been done, we would have just another movie with far fewer reviews.

This is a truly bad "creature feature". The Scorpions in this movie look so fake and laughable that it recalls old 1950's B monster movies. Why didn't they just didn't use cheap CGI effects? They most certainly couldn't have been any worse. I mean these things look like puppets on film!

The plotline could have been much more developed and half way possible for the viewer to suspend their disbelief. It's one of those times you think "WOW, i could have even made this plotline better".

Scientifically, this is clearly impossible for Scorpions in a jar to suddenly grow to be gigantic Scorpions within minutes. And they never even really look like Scorpions, they look more like Crabs...and very stupid looking Crabs at that! I thought those bad films died at the drive-in theaters decades ago!

This movie takes place 99% on a passenger plane, and i never could suspend my disbelief that this was simply a studio set. The lighting never looked right or believable.

The acting is a mixed bag, some of the actors were quite good while others were very bad. There are a few moments during the movie that are comedic and will cause you to chuckle but not really laugh. However, some scenes that obviously were meant to be funny are just plain idiotic.

This is yet another truly HORRIBLE movie that has been released by York Entertainment. I won't even mention "Ax'Em" which is probably the worst horror film ever made. When York started out they released some really good movies like "Kolobos" and "American Vampire", but lately they've been releasing some of the most pathetic movies I've ever seen. The bad thing is, they sound like they might be good...but nothing could be further from the truth.

Avoid this film unless you really want to see just how a bad picture is really made.

A truly bad movie, similar to what happens when someone takes a porno film and takes out the sex scenes. This film has all the positive attributes of a bad high school drama club production, minus the "family appeal".

Laura Putney does a passable acting job with little support from her overacting and mostly unlikeable supporting cast. Gulshan Grover and Guy Bracca as brothers Yaffi and Sudan do a reasonable acting job as well. Everyone else involved in the cast and crew should look into selling real estate.

Some of the "lowlights": Monster parts on-screen with visible human operators and supporting structures; the underlying plywood scenery construction visible when the cockpit panels get shot (clue to effects people: airliner cockpits have very little plywood built into them), the FAA "experts" are all unbelievable and insulting, Tara Price's character can't decide on an accent (Australian? New Jersy? Midwestern? what the Hell, new scene, new accent!), Rick Kelly, as "baddy" Scott takes the ham-handed overacting skill to new extremes.