Not to be confused with the Roger Corman-produced "Black Scorpion", which weirdly enough ISN'T a 1950's monster movie!

@chanmitchell9793

5 жыл бұрын

Godzilla

@wstine79

5 жыл бұрын

Or the early 2000s TV SERIES.

@TheRealNormanBates

5 жыл бұрын

You should have put an asterix after the Black Scorpion* * no relation to Black Panther or Black Lightning.

@nolongeractive7176

5 жыл бұрын

I love this film thank you for reviewing it

@ogithesergal4182

5 жыл бұрын

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 .

@soknightsam

Жыл бұрын

That's a relief and turns out I'm Mexican on coffee breaks

@pheunithpsychic-watertype9881

Жыл бұрын

Well I don't. Tequila sucks

@dubuyajay9964

Жыл бұрын

Siesta Time!

@Clock_70

Жыл бұрын

😂😂😂😂😂😂

@dustinbrown1815

11 ай бұрын

I’m Irish so do we

Fun fact: The Worm was actually the "Tentacled bug" puppet used in the lost spider pit scene.

@nicholaslienandjaja1815

3 жыл бұрын

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)).

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.

Gotta say, the scorpion stop motion holds up really well!

@Blisterdude123

Жыл бұрын

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

@robertstuart480

5 жыл бұрын

Damn kids!

@Tareltonlives

5 жыл бұрын

♫Every country has a Kenny♫

@sambathchhum8738

5 жыл бұрын

don't you mean "unkenny ability"?

@halberd-3291

5 жыл бұрын

Hyarsk Chan beat me to it!

@firebrand723

3 жыл бұрын

They also have the ability to kill you in your sleep

El-Kenny strikes again.

@Tareltonlives

5 жыл бұрын

Kenito!

@MinscFromBaldursGate92

3 жыл бұрын

Kennyholio.

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.

"..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.

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!

@dubuyajay9964

Жыл бұрын

Tiberium is the future!

“President Mexican Vincent Price” jaja, una mejor opción que el presidente actual

@Sealdeam

5 жыл бұрын

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.

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.

@Seanatonin

5 жыл бұрын

you are thinking of Red Scorpion.

@karelpasek6284

5 жыл бұрын

I hear Shady Sands is nice this time of year

@randomguy2518

5 жыл бұрын

Anti-material rifle, you canit the head AND tail in one go

@smithwesson1896

3 жыл бұрын

At least they're not Cazadores

@rionthemagnificent2971

Жыл бұрын

@@smithwesson1896 Cazadores and Deathclaw matrons... New Vegas surely is a hellhole.

That kid isn’t a Kenny, he’s a Carl! “Stay in the house, Juanito”, “Stay in the car, Juanito” . . .

You gotta wonder who was responsible for the goofy scorpion face. "No, no. It needs a mouth! With teeth! And saliva. Gotta have saliva."

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...

@deanwirth3627

Күн бұрын

i love that part

I gotta say, it's pretty cool to see all these old 50s movies in new high-definition scans.

Damn that stadium scene really is impressive

I just love the fact that they gave the scorpions a roar

You don't have to be fast enough to outrun the giant scorpion, you just need to be fast enough to outrun Kenny.

The 1977 movie Kingdom of the Spiders with William Shatner would be perfect for a video.

@thatkaveman

4 жыл бұрын

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.

Scorpion's face from title card to this episode is much scarier than actual face from the movie :D

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.

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 !

@wugglesx

Жыл бұрын

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.

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)

@mosinu9811

4 жыл бұрын

It all depends of what your watching, older disk versions show it plainly. Newer digital versions require some really strong eyesight

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).

@AndrewGivens

2 жыл бұрын

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.

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.

@smithwesson1896

5 жыл бұрын

There's also a recreation of the scene that was done by Peter Jackson as well

@smithwesson1896

3 жыл бұрын

By that I mean the actual lost scene from the 1933 Kong painfully recreated by Jackson and co.

Sadly, there's no catchy theme song like Green Slime.

@Ektalon

5 жыл бұрын

There ain’t no other theme song like the one for the Green Slime.

@michaelmcnally4557

5 жыл бұрын

GREEN SLIIIMMEE

@AmaryInkawult

5 жыл бұрын

Damn... No new tunes for my playlist.

@xXHurdyGurdyManXx

5 жыл бұрын

@@Ektalon the lost continent theme song is pretty sweet. Its by the peddlers.

@angelynx1prime

4 жыл бұрын

SCOR-PI-OOOONNNN! BLACK SCOR-PI-ONNNN!

If Ric Flair isn't in this movie, I'm gonna be pissed

@SuperRustyBoy

5 жыл бұрын

He isn't, but Ole Anderson dubbed the monster's screams.

@raymondhall8691

5 жыл бұрын

@@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

@Tareltonlives

5 жыл бұрын

WOOOOO!

@kylecurry577

5 жыл бұрын

Yes indeed. Old school NWA/WCW. WOOOOO!!!!!!!

@dubuyajay9964

5 жыл бұрын

I don't get it.

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.

"Kenito". This is why I love your videos, sir!!!

Thank god you posted this, there's nothing the hell on tv today.

@sigmacademy

5 жыл бұрын

200 channels on TV, 25000 on the Web and nothing but this worth watching? ;P

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.

1:12: "You animate the 🦂s, Pete. I'll watch." Job. Well. Done.

@fromthecheapseats7126

Күн бұрын

“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.”

Calling it now, he’s saving the next Godzilla review for Christmas.

That 'Conqueror' reference made my day.

I love how happy the scorpion in the thumbnail looks!

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.

@AndrewGivens

2 жыл бұрын

Them! is really in a class of its own, in fact. It's that good.

@frankgesuele6298

Жыл бұрын

@@AndrewGivens The battle in the LA sewers is awesome.

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.

When are you going to review THEM! The Giant Ant Movie from 1950s.

@Nergalsama01

5 жыл бұрын

Very fitting, considering they reused the "spooky sound effect" from THEM! whenever the scorpions were around. :)

@kusanivy

5 жыл бұрын

@@Nergalsama01 And that this movie is basically THEM! with scorpions. I even looked it up. THEM! - 1954, Black Scoripion - 1957

@tskmaster3837

5 жыл бұрын

@@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".

@GamerGuysReviews

5 жыл бұрын

Giant ants? Better call the Earth Defense Force.

@KRhetor

5 жыл бұрын

Too good for the show IMHO.

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.

The chirping sound every time a giant insect pops up me of the sound from the movie them

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.

@sgerald

4 жыл бұрын

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.

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."

16:15 - 16:20 Aww! :( I thought I was the only one who remembered that...

The Giant Behemoth has legit Willis O'Brien stop-motion

@mikegrossberg8624

5 жыл бұрын

Behemoth was a British production. I don't think O'Brien was involved

@smithwesson1896

5 жыл бұрын

@@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

@mikegrossberg8624

5 жыл бұрын

I stand corrected

My Friday is now complete.

I wonder how many movie titles live in the earths mantle only revealed during eruptions.

1:38 The Giant Claw ! lol

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!

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.

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

Say what you will, Mara Corday looked good in all of the monster movies she acted in.

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.

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'.

Of course, Mara Corday is one of the few 1950s movie stars still alive at 91 years young.

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!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

did they just hand a child over to a PRIEST !!!

@IgnatiusThorogood

5 жыл бұрын

They did point a gun at it before then, so maybe it's in safer hands.

@metatronblack

5 жыл бұрын

That's what the Priest prayed for a EL-Kenny😁

@wwef6lr

5 жыл бұрын

After that a woman offered and took it from the priest.

@AverageAwesomeDude

4 жыл бұрын

hes a kenny he deserves it

@jameswilliams2075

3 жыл бұрын

Hopefully he's not catholic

The Black Scorpion would return to fight Zilla in a cartoon.

@fromthecheapseats7126

4 ай бұрын

That basically happened in “Godzilla: the Series.”

At least Kenito didn't remain in the movie until the end where he was somehow instrumental to the narrative. - Great review Brandon.

14:00 was expecting a giant scorpion to emerge from the water.

I remember watching this on an old CRT television at 3am during summer vacation when I was 12, a true classic.

Hey Dude for Christmas do a review of Santa Claus Conquers The Martians

@dubuyajay9964

5 жыл бұрын

And the Mexican production of "Santa Claus."

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.

@Tareltonlives

5 жыл бұрын

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.

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 KZread 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...

So glad you reviewed this!! One of my favorite movies from my childhood

Besides Astonishing She Creature and Monolith Monsters, here’s yet another film with geologists as heroes.

I caught this on monstervision as a kid and really enjoyed it.

This is still fun to watch. But I agree with Brandon, The Close ups of the Scorpion are most stupidest part in this film. What were they thinking?

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.

@AndrewGivens

2 жыл бұрын

Sshh! It's the Fifties.

@bezoticallyyours83

2 жыл бұрын

That's still too big for my comfort

@bezoticallyyours83

2 жыл бұрын

@@AndrewGivens what you said

😡 No 1 in the '50s thought about a Black Scorpion vs the Tarantula movie???

Yay, another classic from my childhood.😊

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.

Woah, the scorpion faces look like scorpononk from transformers beastwars!

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!

The smoking hill in 6:54, is supposed to be a volcano Parícutin, which is a found in Mexico.

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.

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.

"No....let him watch"

10:28 i knew the kid and the astronaut from "20 million miles to earth" looked familiar

Ah, scorpions. One of the only arthropods with a tail

@Tareltonlives

5 жыл бұрын

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.

Oh my god, watching the guy get the shit zapped out of him when he touched the dart was the best thing ever!

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.

Hopefully one of your patrons suggests Orca. I love that one. Saw it after Free Willy. Never could watch that one the same wayagan afterwards.

I was waiting for the "other Black Scorpion" reference. You made me wait for it, but I finally got it.

You should review the blob (the original)

“He’s even going after this movie’s Kenito.” 😂😂🤠🤣🤣

You should review the CONQUEROR definitely that would be hilarious

@steamboatwill3.367

5 жыл бұрын

👍

Once again great work! Looking forward to the next one!

I love the THEM sound effects.

15:56 sounds like the narrator from the clone wars

@steamboatwill3.367

5 жыл бұрын

i wonder who that is.

Hey bud, just wanted to let you know that watching your videos helped me through a lot of rough times and kept a smile on my face, keep it up!!!

Okay. I love the close-ups. They remind me of the insert shots from “King Kong”...also, the big head’s eyes remind me of a Chevy I used to own.

Too bad this came out before Harry Hamlin played Perseus in Clash of the Titans; he could have saved many people from the scorpions.

i think he should talk whack at Roger Cormans Black scorpion

I dunno about killer bull movies but there is one about a killer bison starring Charles Bronson called The White Buffalo. And yes you should totally review it.

Well the definitely had a competent cinematographer, that vintage footage is sharp as hell!

At 5:30 Your voice throwing technique is on point...! {I think that means good.?}