Brandon's Cult Movie Reviews: THE BLACK SCORPION
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- It's 50's monster movie time once again with "The Black Scorpion", featuring stop-motion f/x from King Kong animator Willis O'Brien.
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Not to be confused with the Roger Corman-produced "Black Scorpion", which weirdly enough ISN'T a 1950's monster movie!
Godzilla
Or the early 2000s TV SERIES.
You should have put an asterix after the Black Scorpion*
* no relation to Black Panther or Black Lightning.
I love this film thank you for reviewing it
Why am I even surprised that the first reply say "Godzilla"?....
As a mexican i can confirm all of this happened, and yes, we drink tequila for a coffe break .
That's a relief and turns out I'm Mexican on coffee breaks
Well I don't. Tequila sucks
Siesta Time!
😂😂😂😂😂😂
I’m Irish so do we
Fun fact; the trilling sound effect you can hear whenever the giant scorpions show up is actually the same noise used to accompany the giant ants from THEM! As a fan of that movie, it just makes me smile to hear that noise; I always thought it was one of the creepiest things about it.
Fun fact: The Worm was actually the "Tentacled bug" puppet used in the lost spider pit scene.
Now I want to see references to the giant bugs from this movie in Godzilla vs. Kong (my guess is that giant spiders, scorpions, and worms serve as prey to Warbats, Hellhawks, and Skullcrawlers, and some kaiju will even eat them (maybe Rodan will be revealed to be the bugs' predator as well as a reference to the Meganulon)).
Gotta say, the scorpion stop motion holds up really well!
It's the quality of the stop motion work that really leads me to believe O'Brien likely took a very active role in the animation for the film. Like with Harryhausen, you can really kinda tell, they both leave a pretty iconic footprint with their work. And the look and feel of it definitely comes with the stamp of O'Brien's other work.
The Kennies have the uncanny ability to transcend cultures and ethnicities
Damn kids!
♫Every country has a Kenny♫
don't you mean "unkenny ability"?
Hyarsk Chan beat me to it!
They also have the ability to kill you in your sleep
The thing I loved most of all about this movie is how useless the lead character is at the start - he actually waves a revolver at a baby - but then it *is* only a *Mexican* baby...
i love that part
El-Kenny strikes again.
Kenito!
Kennyholio.
"..Ravaged as by some giant being..."
"OK, just because you're in Mexico doesn't mean it's a bean going around killing people"
lol brilliant brandon
Freeze the train wreck scene and you can see Lionel Lines on the tender--which is facing the wrong way itself. I am a model railroader.
Every "illegally-obtained orphan" subplot in every monster movie should be resolved by the orphan shouting, "YOU'RE NOT MY REAL DAD!!!" and running straight into the monster's jaws/claws/semi-viscous puddle.
As a geology professor, and a huge fan of bad movies and classic MST3K, I'm so glad that you've covered this film. I was even happier to see the plug for the Monolith Monsters. Any chance you'll cover that one some day?
Great review, as always. Looking forward to the next one!
Tiberium is the future!
That kid isn’t a Kenny, he’s a Carl! “Stay in the house, Juanito”, “Stay in the car, Juanito” . . .
Aw man, this is not the Dolph Lundgren movie I expected!
Also giant scorpions are not that hard to deal with. Just stock up on anti-venom and aim for the head or the tail. The poison glands are worth 20 caps each too.
you are thinking of Red Scorpion.
I hear Shady Sands is nice this time of year
Anti-material rifle, you canit the head AND tail in one go
At least they're not Cazadores
@@smithwesson1896 Cazadores and Deathclaw matrons... New Vegas surely is a hellhole.
You gotta wonder who was responsible for the goofy scorpion face. "No, no. It needs a mouth! With teeth! And saliva. Gotta have saliva."
I gotta say, it's pretty cool to see all these old 50s movies in new high-definition scans.
“President Mexican Vincent Price” jaja, una mejor opción que el presidente actual
Problema común en toda Latinoamérica colega, acá en el sur no andamos mejor, menos mal hay internet para no pensar en eso por un rato.
Around the scene where the larger scorpion kills off the smaller scorpions you have a change of seeing a wire attached to a smaller scorpion's waist (you can see it slightly near the 16:09 mark of the video)
It all depends of what your watching, older disk versions show it plainly. Newer digital versions require some really strong eyesight
Scorpion's face from title card to this episode is much scarier than actual face from the movie :D
I just love the fact that they gave the scorpions a roar
Mexico is home to a unique spectacle of mother nature fury : the self building in 1943 of the Paricutin volcano from just a hole in a corn field to a ~7,500 ft mountain.
(It seems the footage shown in the movie is about the Paricutin)
The hapless peasant noticed a 3-inch-diameter smoking hole in his field, he rolled a rock over to plug it and went to alert the authorities.
When he returned the hole was 30 ft in diameter & had swallowed whole his rock !
I love how you end this haha, almost as though he moved a 15-20ft rock onto it so it's even more shocking. . Thanks for the info too.
Edit: just realized too that's just in that shirt time roughly a 120x size increase O_O. That's.. wow.
Pete Peterson was Willis O'Brian assistant. They work together in the 50's and early 60's and where able to pick up and continue the animation where the other let off. At least Pete Peterson was credited in this film. A couple of other film just credit Willis O Brian.
Sadly he died in 1962 and was soon follow O Brian.
Willis O'Brien actually did get hands on and do some of the animation. I believe the train sequence was done by him (from an anecdote I read by Bob Burns).
The train attack sequence is actually one of the best scenes in any monster movie ever; they really don't f*** about in this one.
The 1977 movie Kingdom of the Spiders with William Shatner would be perfect for a video.
My roommate and I found a copy of Kingdom of the spiders at a yard sale, it had a really cool reversible box art sleeve. The first five minutes and the last ten minutes alone could be worth a video. Definitely second this motion. Get on it Brandon.
Damn that stadium scene really is impressive
You don't have to be fast enough to outrun the giant scorpion, you just need to be fast enough to outrun Kenny.
1:12: "You animate the 🦂s, Pete. I'll watch."
Job. Well. Done.
“I’m busy working on the ‘King Kong vs Frankenstein’ script. I just know it’ll be a hit when some major studio picks it up, even if I have to take it all the way to Japan.”
You got your spider pit scene in the remake.
Which I refuse to watch again cause that scene trigger multiple fears of mine at the same time.
There's also a recreation of the scene that was done by Peter Jackson as well
By that I mean the actual lost scene from the 1933 Kong painfully recreated by Jackson and co.
This one had a pretty slow start but, it did get interesting once they went underground. I liked the battle scene between the Mexican army and the oversized Arachnids in the stadium.
"Kenito". This is why I love your videos, sir!!!
The chirping sound every time a giant insect pops up me of the sound from the movie them
Thank god you posted this, there's nothing the hell on tv today.
200 channels on TV, 25000 on the Web and nothing but this worth watching? ;P
Sadly, there's no catchy theme song like Green Slime.
There ain’t no other theme song like the one for the Green Slime.
GREEN SLIIIMMEE
Damn... No new tunes for my playlist.
@@Ektalon the lost continent theme song is pretty sweet. Its by the peddlers.
SCOR-PI-OOOONNNN! BLACK SCOR-PI-ONNNN!
If Ric Flair isn't in this movie, I'm gonna be pissed
He isn't, but Ole Anderson dubbed the monster's screams.
@@SuperRustyBoy he did double duty because he dubbed shockmaster too. He was in a deleted scene. He was used to plug up the hole that the scorpions were coming out of but tripped and fell face first in front of the scorpion and got killed
WOOOOO!
Yes indeed. Old school NWA/WCW. WOOOOO!!!!!!!
I don't get it.
At 2:39 you can see they removed the windshield glass (most likely to reduce any glare on the camera lens), and had to scotch tape the rubber windshield wreath into the window frame because it won't stay in place without the glass.
That 'Conqueror' reference made my day.
Calling it now, he’s saving the next Godzilla review for Christmas.
I love how happy the scorpion in the thumbnail looks!
14:00 was expecting a giant scorpion to emerge from the water.
Yes! I've been hoping you'd do this one! Willis O'Brien's last fling! He basically acted as effects scene director. For Stop motion films, the animator usually directed the action, talking it out with the main director. For example, he supervised Peterson and Harryhausen and taught them how to do animation in Mighty Joe Young.
I wonder if Demon Bull was a callback-an unmade film that O'Brien wrote a script for in the 30s was about a boy trying to save his pet bull from the corrida by capturing an allosaurus. That's right-The Valley of Gwangi was originally going to be a lot more like the Brave One (which evaded a lawsuit from O'brien by claiming it was based on a historical event)
♫Every country, has a Kenny, they're afraid of, in their nation!♫
By the way, there WAS a giant scorpion 300 million years ago in Scotland. Mind you, it was only two feet long but a two-foot scorpion is still fucking terrifying.
After a ton of relatively recent horror films in October, it's nice to see a 50s monster movie on this show again.
1:38 The Giant Claw ! lol
I wonder how many movie titles live in the earths mantle only revealed during eruptions.
One of my favourite 50’s monster movies! Pete Peterson was an unsung talent in the effects industry. He learned from watching Ray Harryhausen whilst working on ‘Mighty Joe Young’ and O’Brien hired him to help with animation. I heard that the stop motion sets in this were shot in Peterson or O’Brien’s garage and were very low setups due to Pete having a leg/back disability. Very talented animator.
He had ms, and from what I've heard and read it was advanced by the time they made this which makes the quality of the animation even more impressive. After all at this point it was basically Ray Harryhausen, Willis O'Brien an Pete Peterson, and the rest when it came to Stop Motion. Jim Danforth hadn't started yet, Wah Chang and his group were middling when it came to Stop Motion, and The Beast of Hollow Mountain is what you get when the director says he's going to Hire Willis O'Brien and then doesn't and just the animation himself. It's a shame O'Brien and Peterson got so little work but at least what we do have is excellent stuff.
The Giant Behemoth has legit Willis O'Brien stop-motion
Behemoth was a British production. I don't think O'Brien was involved
@@mikegrossberg8624 Yes he was. He did the stop-motion for the monster. Also it was from the same director as The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms and Gorgo
I stand corrected
Fun Fact! It's also a scene in this movie at 7:23 to 7:26 that inspired the movie "Attack of the Camel Toe" a movie that even to this day, still holds the record for the biggest budget for Slime and Squirting affects in a movie.
Loved this movie. The Scorpion of Honey, I shrunk the kids scared me when I was little, but if I saw this movie when I was little I would have never wanted to go to Mexico.
Same. When I was little I went to Mexico to visit family, and one day at Breakfast I saw a scorpion on the wall and it scared the crap out of me. Fortunately, a Mexican mom gets +1 to attack rolls with a shoe, so my mom killed it casually.
Besides Astonishing She Creature and Monolith Monsters, here’s yet another film with geologists as heroes.
6:45 that is an insultingly accurate stereotype sir! **sips bootle of tequila**
Richard Denning played pretty much the same character type in all his B movies. The Creature From The Black Lagoon being the most famous.
16:15 - 16:20 Aww! :( I thought I was the only one who remembered that...
When are you going to review THEM! The Giant Ant Movie from 1950s.
Very fitting, considering they reused the "spooky sound effect" from THEM! whenever the scorpions were around. :)
@@Nergalsama01 And that this movie is basically THEM! with scorpions. I even looked it up. THEM! - 1954, Black Scoripion - 1957
@@kusanivy Yup from the "mysterious happenings and destruction in the desert caused by what?" in the beginning to the descent into the anthill, I mean, uh, scorpion pit to "showdown in the city". Them is miles ahead with the fact all those events have reasons beyond "that's what they did in Them".
Giant ants? Better call the Earth Defense Force.
Too good for the show IMHO.
The Black Scorpion would return to fight Zilla in a cartoon.
That basically happened in “Godzilla: the Series.”
Of course, Mara Corday is one of the few 1950s movie stars still alive at 91 years young.
Great review! This movie stole the scorpion sound effect from the movie, "Them" (1954). Them is about giants ants, though. It is an excellent movie - especially for 1954.
Them! is really in a class of its own, in fact. It's that good.
@@AndrewGivens The battle in the LA sewers is awesome.
I love these movies as I grew up on them....surprised you didn't mention that Mara was an October 1958 Playmate in Playboy; if you did I didn't hear it.....still think you should do "Monster On The Campus."
😡 No 1 in the '50s thought about a Black Scorpion vs the Tarantula movie???
I caught this on monstervision as a kid and really enjoyed it.
At least Kenito didn't remain in the movie until the end where he was somehow instrumental to the narrative. - Great review Brandon.
Then I have good news for ya Brandon, they even made a TV show from the Black Scorpion! It is basically low budget female Batman - she even has a scorpion-mobile.
Willis O'Brien must have been sipping the tequila while recreating the King Kong subway scene. At 15:43 they didn't bother to overpaint the Lionel Lines logo on the toy train and they've got the tender on backwards. They must have really tried hard to get that to work!
I remember watching this on an old CRT television at 3am during summer vacation when I was 12, a true classic.
I watched this one along with the other giant bug B-movies from the 1950's as a kid - pretty standard, but those stop-motion giant scorpions WERE awesome! And even those close-up, anatomically incorrect scorpion mug shots are a bit creepy. O'Brien at the time was getting pretty old, carrying on the same techniques he had used decades earlier that his successor Harryhausen had upgraded with more fluid background mattes (including moving shots like in THE BEAST FROM 20,000 FATHOMS) and neatly framed foreground models and real-life settings, and in a lot of O'Brien's later work, he was mostly called in on short notice, as some of the scenes from the later film THE GIANT BEHEMOTH show. Strangely, I STILL haven't seen the MST3K version yet - I need to try and catch that before the year is out!
My Friday is now complete.
Say what you will, Mara Corday looked good in all of the monster movies she acted in.
absolutely one of my most favorite movies of ALL-TIME!!!! really awesome you doing this one, when I got the notification for it, I was like no way 😱 ~ absolutely made my day! thank you
I studied geology in college. We did study how to fight giant scorpions extensively. They’re quite a threat in Humboldt county. We were taught to use a 20mm anti-tank rifle. But to each their own.
The smoking hill in 6:54, is supposed to be a volcano Parícutin, which is a found in Mexico.
did they just hand a child over to a PRIEST !!!
They did point a gun at it before then, so maybe it's in safer hands.
That's what the Priest prayed for a EL-Kenny😁
After that a woman offered and took it from the priest.
hes a kenny he deserves it
Hopefully he's not catholic
Hey Dude for Christmas do a review of Santa Claus Conquers The Martians
And the Mexican production of "Santa Claus."
I love the THEM sound effects.
Oh my god, watching the guy get the shit zapped out of him when he touched the dart was the best thing ever!
10:28 i knew the kid and the astronaut from "20 million miles to earth" looked familiar
“He’s even going after this movie’s Kenito.” 😂😂🤠🤣🤣
Seriously, prehistoric scorpions? The largest of the prehistoric scorpion species to ever live was Brontoscorpio, but even then it only got up to 2 meters in length.
Sshh! It's the Fifties.
That's still too big for my comfort
@@AndrewGivens what you said
15:56 sounds like the narrator from the clone wars
i wonder who that is.
one thing I've learned from odd corners of experience in life is if you drop a small amount of ethanol onto a scorpion's back, it'll go berserk and sting itself to death.
So glad you reviewed this!! One of my favorite movies from my childhood
You should review the blob (the original)
I’m quiet shocked that some of the monsterous insects were from the lost spider pit scene from King Kong
For 1950s schlock sci fi/horror, not bad. Good stop motion effects. As always Brandon great show. Thanks. By the way 'Juanito' is Spanish for 'Kenny'.
Ah, scorpions. One of the only arthropods with a tail
Well, there's Eurypterids...who are just outside arachnida, and horseshoe crabs, who are VERY basal chelicerates.
6:38 OMG! Whose Line Is It Anyway did a "dubbing" of this part.
I wonder if you would review Laserblast from 1978, that was one I saw on one of the lower channels back in my kid days.
Woah, the scorpion faces look like scorpononk from transformers beastwars!
Too bad this came out before Harry Hamlin played Perseus in Clash of the Titans; he could have saved many people from the scorpions.
"No....let him watch"
There’s a TV show to go along with that other Black Scorpion movie! I loved it in the 90s but it didn’t age well... but you know what did “CLASS OF 1999”. Do class of 1999!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Richard Denning was also in "The Day the World Ended", where the creature could tie "The Giant Claw" for the cheesiest of them all. However, Touch Connors, of Mannix fame, was in that one. I actually thought Mara Corday was very enjoyable to watch, but looked better in that big old claw film. This flick was pretty good and the effects were well done. I saw this years ago, as CZcams always has it blocked. Yes, they seem to always block the ones that I am wanting to view. As always, great job and we will be looking for more...
You should review the CONQUEROR definitely that would be hilarious
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Oh, and I named my pet scorpion Richard after Richard Denning, who plays Hank. :D
This kinda reminds me of tremors 1 2 and 4 combined
The "Adults Only" poster comes from Britain, where horror films were indeed restricted to adult audiences in the Fifties, and automatically slapped with an "X Certificate." Corday had been a Playboy Playmate but alas, didn't show much skin then either.
i think he should talk whack at Roger Cormans Black scorpion
So today I learned that scorpions roar. Who knew?! 🤔
Just like how Jaws 4 taught me that sharks can roar.
@@MinscFromBaldursGate92 "Jaws 4" has much to teach us all! 😁
9:02: "I don't see any giant crickets around"
And there are no giant mealworms, giant maggots, or giant dubia cockroaches either.
11:25: OK, I'm pretty sure this reminds me of both the pit from King Kong (2005) and Hollow Earth from Godzilla vs. Kong. Now all we need are giant scorpions in the latter as a reference to this movie (Godzilla vs. Kong's King Kong poster does hint at a giant spider in Hollow Earth after all).
I don't know any killer bull movies in the 1950's, but White Buffalo came out in 1977.
Yay, another classic from my childhood.😊
15:28 He's trying to stick his tortilla in her guacamole LOL!
According to that new Godzilla King of the Monsters movie Rodan lives in a volcano in Mexico.
Would be a nice reference to see some bag ass scorpions then
Brandon: (reviews a monster movie)
Literally everyone in the comments: DO ANOTHER GODZILLA REVIEW!!!
And every one else: Hey, Brandon, can you review this one : [quotes obscure film title nobody has ever seen or heard ]? :P :)