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The Black Scorpion 1957

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Richard Denning (Actor), Mara Corday (Actor), Edward Ludwig (Director)

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They’re big. They’re bad. They scuttle along in caverns miles beneath the Earth – until an earthquake opens paths to the surface. Now, these monsters of genus Arachnida are invading our world with deadly force! With top special effects co-designed by King Kong’s Willis O’Brien, The Black Scorpion is horror with a sting more lethal than the king-sized ants that overran Los Angeles’ sewers in the classic Them! Can humankind survive these invincible juggernauts? That fate rests on the shoulders of Hank Scott (1950s monster-movie stalwart Richard Denning) as the creatures rip a train from its track, snatch a helicopter from the sky and, in the film’s most gripping sequence, battle each other in their subterranean lair. Watch out!

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Actors: Richard Denning, Mara Corday, Carlos Rivas, Mario Navarro, Carlos Muzquiz
Directors: Edward Ludwig
Format: Blu-ray
Region: All Regions
Number of discs: 1
Studio: Warner Archives
DVD Release Date: March 20, 2018
Run Time: 88 minutes
Average Customer Review: 153 customer reviews
ASIN: B079Z26Q4G
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #5,230 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
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A. W. Wilson

GOOD LESSER KNOWN SCI/FI FROM WARNER ARCHIVE

January 4, 2015

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You can be forgiven for thinking this is a Universal product in their 50's SCI/FI output, but it is a Warner film, released here in an excellent 16.9 ratio by Warner Archive, with clear B/W picture and good sound, and unusually, some extras, inc trailers and background to the film. No subs. The film is shot (mostly) on location, in Mexico with Mexican actors except for our leads, who graced so many films of this type they could probably do it their sleep (No jokes here please). I refer to Richard Denning and the wonderful Mara Corday, looking almost, stress the almost, matronly, but terrific. Their acting as such was perhaps never their strong point but they deliver the goods as required by script and subject. Willis O'Brien was in charge of the SFX and they are pretty good except for the close ups which are terrible and probably not him. These Scorpions move fast. Perhaps the film is 10mins too long (88 mins) for a film of this kind, and while it is no classic it is well worth a watch. (P.S. Why is the price on U/K Amazon £70???)

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Elwanda Rigsby

GREAT MOVIE

April 28, 2017

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I love these old Si Fi movies and I had been hunting for this one long time. It's a great old time movie
I had ONLY one problem with it when I got it and tried playing it in my DVD player it wouldn't read it took me 3 or 4
try's to get it to play. Afterwards I took it out and the back was sticky there was something on it so I tried wiping it with a soft
cloth the stuff was still on there.
So finally I used some window cleaner on it let it set then cleaned it and now it works good
I recommend this movie to people like myself who loves these old Si Fi monster movies

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Michael I. Lefkowitz

Last Hurrah for the Man Who Animated King Kong

February 20, 2015

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This is a reasonably good science fiction film from the 1950s featuring the ever dependable Richard Denning as a scientist battling giant scorpions on the rampage in Mexico after volcanic activity opens a passage out of the deep caverns where the creatures have long resided. Denning delivers another solid performance and has a good female lead in Mara Corday, who costarred with John Agar in Universal's Tarantula (1955), one of the best sci-fi thrillers of the 1950s, and with Jeff Morrow in Columbia's The Giant Claw (1957), one of the worst sci-fi pictures ever made. Denning and Corday, a 1958 Playmate of the Month in Playboy Magazine, have a nice chemistry as a couple who become lovers amidst the destruction wrought by the scorpions. The special effects were created by Willis O'Brien, the animator of King Kong and Mighty Joe Young and a mentor of the great Ray Harryhausen. The scorpions are nicely animated through stop- motion photography, Not every scene works, but the ones that do are impressive. The overall direction of the film by Edward Ludwig is competent, The HD print available on Amazon is of high quality and adds to the enjoyment of the film. It's well worth a look.

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DinoTerry

WELL WORTH WATCHING FOR SCI FI FILM FANS

March 31, 2018

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Another great blu ray product with all the resolution that I love for watching my favorite science fiction and fantasy films. The photography and lighting in this one are excellent. Story has a wonderfully paced dramatic buildup. Love the staging of the scenes. I’m a life long fan of stop motion animation effects and have always appreciated the work of Willis O’Brien and Pete Peterson. Once again, they certainly do not disappoint. For me, the acting seems better than usual for this kind of picture. The music is clever and eerie throughout. One of those movies I enjoy as much watching again and again. Always interesting and fascinating. The only criticism I have is that I wish the picture image were full-frame instead of cropped for the benefit of my wide screen t v. All in all though it’s a fine product and I give it a five-star thumbs up. It’s worth having.

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david roesler

The movie itself was excellent. The video transfer great

April 17, 2018

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The movie itself was excellent. The video transfer great. The extras offered a documentary of Ray Harryhausen reminiscing over his mentor Willis O’Brian who did the special effects for the original “King Kong” and “The Black Scorpion.” It also included the stop motion prehistoric segment from Irwin Allen’s documentary feature film “The Animal World” which was the last film collaboration of Willis O’Brian and Ray Harryhausen.
In addition it had stop motion special effects footage from Pete Petersen’s aborted film projects. Petersen was O’Brian’s assistant on “Mighty Joe Young”, “The Giant Behemoth” and “The Black Scorpion.” Petersen did the tedious hands on stop motion work under the supervision of O’Brian.

My only quibble is the exact same extras were on the dvd release of the film and no new extras were made for the Bluray release. It would have been nice to have had a commentary tract done for this release.

About the film itself in my humble opinion it’s the second best giant bug flick made during the 1950’s sci-fi movie craze. Only the classic “Them” surpasses it having superior story, acting and direction. Regarding special effects however Black Scorpion is superior. O’Brian’s and Petersen’s stop motion in many ways surpasses Ray Harryhausen’s best work. Several scenes of scorpions on the rampage are genuinely frightening and caused me to lose sleep when I saw it in theaters as a child.

For those interested in classic 50’s sci-fi, stop motion animation or just a great entertaining movie I highly recommend seeing “The Black Scorpion.”

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Cassie Redwell

not the usual bad old horror movie.

April 21, 2018

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I adore the old 50s and 60s horror movies. Creatures especially. It's more than funny to know that three-quarters of the way through the reason that scorpions look just like Shadows rather than the whole scorpions that they were is that they apparently ran out of budget and that's all they could do. Still actually given when it was made it's pretty cool. I could totally see people back in the day being really scared by it.

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A real stinker...

This is one of the great stinkers of SciFi! We have a large collection of bad films, and frequently have marathons watching them!

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Joe Myers

Five Stars

One of my favorite Creature Feature movies from my childhood. Loved it!

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Charles A. Kinsey

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Thomas Burnett

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Michael Grösch-McCluskey

It's a pretty old release. Exceptional audio & video with a treasure trove of bonus material. A new BLU-RAY is announced!

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