IFC Midnight announced today from the Tribeca Film Festival that the company has acquired U.S. rights to Benni Diez’s STUNG. The film, directed by Diez with a screenplay by Adam Aresty, stars Matt O’Leary, Jessica Cook, Clifton Collins Jr. and Lance Henriksen. The film was produced by Christian Becker and Benjamin Munz for Germany based Rat Pack Film Production with Todd Brown, Nick Spicer, Aram Tertzakian and Nate Bolotin serving as Executive Producers for XYZ Films. STUNG will premiere tonight in the “Midnight” section of the 2015 Tribeca Film Festival.
STUNG centers around an extravagant garden party hosted by Mrs. Perch at her remote country villa. Unbeknownst to the host and her guests, her illegal fertilizer has infested the surrounding countryside and transformed a local species of killer wasps into giant, mutant predators, on the hunt for prey in which they can lay their eggs. It falls to two of the party’s catering staff to stop the monsters and save the day.
