“Sting” is a solid no-big-stars B-picture thriller about an itsy bitsy spider who gets chatty, then awfully big as it tears through a New York apartment building in the middle of a blizzard.

Naturally, it was filmed in Australia. The magic of the movies, amIright?

A meteor shower that coincides with a storm is our “How this happened.” A child obsessed with sneaking through the airvents into other apartments has a thing for tiny arachnids. But one that doubles in size, night by night?

Bugger that.

Alya Browne plays Charlotte, a tween living with her architect mom Heather (Penelope Mitchell of “Star Trek: Picard” and the recent “Hellboy” remake) and trying to bond with her comic book illustrator stepdad (Ryan Corr of “The Water Diviner” and “Ladies in Black”).

They’re sort-of collaborating on a spidery comic that is set to go into production. But he’s got to draw that in his spare time. Stepdad Ethan is also the building super in an old apartment house owned by the two elderly sisters upstairs (Noni Hazelhurst and Robyn Nevin), with the one suffering from dementia Heather’s grandmother.

They have a new baby in the house and a lot of things tugging the adults in different directions. No wonder young Charlotte is out crawling through the air ducts, finding things and that unusual spider.

She loves “The Hobbit,” so “Sting” shall be the spider’s new name. Not “Shelob?” Maybe she hasn’t gotten to “The Lord of the Rings” yet.

Feeding Sting roaches helps the spider grow big and fast and strong. The clicking noises Sting makes tell Charlotte she’s hungry, or that she sees her in the room.

It isn’t until Charlotte tries to buy an extra aquarium out of the experiments-obsessed biology student (Danny Kim) upstairs that she gets a clue.

“Charlotte, spiders don’t have vocal chords.”

The opening scene has us watching a hapless exterminator (Jermaine Fowler of “Sorry to Bother You” and “Coming 2 America”) staring death in the face upon first encountering Sting. We know how bad things will get. The movie is about getting us there.

Fowler vamps through a sort of Chris Tucker impersonation here, serving the purpose of broad, bug-eyed comic relief. This creature feature could use a LOT more of that, maybe less stereotypical.

The gotchas are decent and the plot points that point to peril are generic but spot on — We’ve got to get the BABY back!

“Sting” isn’t great fun or great really in any sense. But it’s not bad for a giant spider killer thriller B-movie set in snowy New York and shot in Australia.

Rating: R, graphic violence, profanity

Cast: Ayla Browne, Ryan Corr, Jermaine Fowler, Penelope Mitchell, Silvia Colloca, Noni Hazelhurst, Robyn Nevin and Danny Kim.

Credits: Scripted and directed by Kiah Roache-Turner. A Well Go USA release.

Running time: 1:31