I haven’t posted on here in a while so I thought I’d go ahead and answer a question I get asked a lot when I do con appearances: how did you get involved in the film “Stinger” and “weren’t you supposed to direct it?”
As many of you know I wrote a cheesy horror film called STINGER for a company called Shoreline Entertainment back in around 2004. It was originally planned to be the sequel to a film called “Tail Sting” which is often considered one of the worst creature features to come out in a very long time. Even Shoreline Entertainment owner and “Tail Sting” Executive Producer, Morris Ruskin, hated the film in spite of the fact it had made his company quite a bit of money and was a decent hit outside of the USA. I remember many a conversation sitting in Morris’ office where he’d talk about what a load of crap that movie was.
Truthfully, it is a bad movie but there are some funny bits in there and it was good enough for New Line Cinema to complete rip off in its equally bad “Snakes on a Plane.” If you think “Snakes on a Plane” wasn’t a rip off of “Tail Sting,” then just do a quick watch of both movies. There are too many similar beats and duplicated sequences to be just a coincidence. Why they chose to plagiarize “Tail Sting” I have no clue. Read More »
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