Product Details

• Actors: Bruce Abbott, Darryl M. Bell, Kyle Fredericks, Ed Gilbert, Randall Shiro Ideishi
• Format: Color, DVD, NTSC
• Language: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rating: R (Restricted)
• Studio: New Concorde
• DVD Release Date: January 23, 2001
• Run Time: 92 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (14 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B000053VBV
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #77,071 in Movies & TV (See Bestsellers in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "Black Scorpion" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

24 of 27 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A lot better than it has any reason to be., February 2, 2001

By	"kjv31" (Seattle, WA United States) - See all my reviews

Remarkably well done as far as recent Roger Corman-produced product goes. Joan Severance goes all-out and gives an excellent performance that puts her co-stars -- Bruce (Re-Animator) Abbott and Rick (Roxanne) Rossovich among them -- to shame. So the movie's a low-budget made-for-cable superhero flick -- that's no excuse to not give it your all.

The DVD looks really good, which is surprising since 50% of the movie is shot in dark L.A. alleys. The full-screen picture is clear and sound is great.

Amazon.com has neglected to include a couple of details about the DVD in it's technical description. The DVD contains a short (10-15 minute) introduction, as well as a feature-length commentary, both by Joan Severance. There's also a few trailers for other Corman movies, including Black Scorpion II.

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars There are TWO editions of this movie!, February 26, 2004

By	David Deakin (Herne Bay, Kent United Kingdom) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Please be warned that there are two different editions of this movie on DVD and I've yet to find a retailer who can confirm which they're shipping. The one with "Roger Corman Presents" accros the top of the cover DOES NOT include the interview or commentary.

9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Scorpion Rides the Frog, February 16, 2000

By	The Watcher (Connecticut, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Black Scorpion [VHS] (VHS Tape)

If you have a liking for B genre movies with action, a female heroine, a quasi story-line, and some nudity, then I would recommend this movie to you. The movie starts in the real world then does a rather quick shift to a sci-fi futuristic world. In a scene set in 1975, a cop-father tells his daughter, who later becomes the Scorpion, a story about a scorpion riding on a frog across a stream. Joan Severance's acting is a little weak in the beginning of the movie but improves as she dons a costume and becomes the Black Scorpion. One of the highlights is when a disrobed Joan rides her cop-partner to ecstasy, masked as the Scorpion. Hence the Scorpion takes the frog for a ride.