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: #87,089 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

25 of 28 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.

9 of 9 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.

10 of 11 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.