Its plot concerns five female college students who head to the Florida Everglades for a holiday, but instead of fun in the sun, run into trouble with a mutated, bloodthirsty, and quite deadly jellyfish-man-monster.

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A 1967 review in BoxOffice says that the film is "very much in keeping with the youth-oriented horror market" of the time, well-made enough to earn a "good" rating—on its Very Good-to-Very Poor scale—and that Grefé "has generated a surprisingly strong mass market appeal pattern and, for good measure, headliner Neil Sedaka is present in the capacity of singing guest star." BoxOffice calls Morrison, Hawkins, and Vella "professionally poised in pivotal roles" and says that Nagle "provides some interesting moments."[15][16]

On the other hand, film historian Phil Hardy has little positive to say about Sting of Death. He opines that Hawkins is a "wooden heroine" and Morrison a "hard-headed hero," and calls the film an "unimaginative piece of low-budget Science Fiction."[17] TVGuide.com uses the similar phrase "mindless science fiction" in its brief description of the movie.[18]

Critic Fred Beldin of Allmovie.com is even more damning. He writes that Sting of Death is a "peculiar sci-fi calamity," a movie that is "wrong-headed, absurd, and unintentionally funny" but one that will nonetheless "thrill lovers of trash cinema and confuse everyone else." He is of the opinion that Grefé "films the dance sequences with special attention paid to his female subjects' posteriors, suggesting an almost Russ Meyers-like appreciation of this portion" of their anatomy. Beldin also notes that the "succession of unlikely events and robotic actors" are all filmed "in blazing color."[19] In an interview, Grefé attributes the latter to the "glare off the ocean [that] really lends itself to beautiful photography" and to "cameramen back then [who] believed in putting color in" as many shots as possible.[1]

Besides writing that Sting of Death has an "overabundance of mundane dialogue and amateurish acting, film historian Bryan Senn makes special note of the Jellyfish Man costume. He quotes Hobart, the man inside the costume, as saying that "The monster suit cost about $300 to make" and took about two weeks to complete. However, Senn points out, "In fact, it looks just like what it really is—a man in a crusty, dirty wetsuit and flippers, with plastic cords hanging from his shoulders and a clear hefty bag inflated over his head."[2] Grefé seems to agree with Senn, saying in an interview, "Now if you tried to release that in the theaters, they'd stone you to death in the lobby. Back in those days, it wasn't too bad. You could get away with a lot of stuff on the low-budget pictures."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sting_of_Death

Sting of Death (1966) is the movie for this Sunday's "monsterdon" watch party over on Mastodon, our fediverse sibling!

• Just start watching that movie this Sunday, September 20 at 9pm ET / 8pm CT / 6pm PT which is 1am Monday UTC
• and follow #monsterdon over on mastodon for live text commentary. For example, you can follow that hashtag here: https://mastodon.social/tags/monsterdon
• I usually open two web browser windows side-by-side on a computer. But you could follow the mastodon commentary on a phone app while watching the movie on TV or something.

How to watch the movie:

• for info on how to block ads, see: https://ohai.social/@klu9/115245207831850566
• tubi: https://tubitv.com/movies/610699/sting-of-death
• tubi: (another copy? wtf?): https://tubitv.com/movies/100034158/sting-of-death
• archive: https://archive.org/details/sting-of-death-1080p
• it's usually streamed on https://miru.miyaku.media/ at that time
• if you want to pay and/or watch ads, look here: https://www.justwatch.com/us/movie/sting-of-death
• for trigger warnings (although there's nothing there yet) try: https://www.doesthedogdie.com/media/264947