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The Black Scorpion

The Black Scorpion

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Volcanic activity frees giant scorpions from the earth who wreak havoc in the rural countryside and eventually threaten Mexico City.
Released: 1957-10-11
Duration: 01:28:00
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Tags: Monster, Kaiju
Keywords: Giant Spider, Worm, Telephone Lineman, ...
Director: Edward Ludwig
Writer: Robert Blees, David Duncan, Paul Yawitz
Cast: Mara Corday, Richard Denning, Carlos Rivas, ...
Director: Edward Ludwig
Writer: Robert Blees David Duncan Paul Yawitz
Cast: Mara Corday Richard Denning Carlos Rivas Pedro Galván Mario Navarro Carlos Múzquiz Pascual García Peña Fanny Schiller Arturo Martínez
Genre: Horror Sci-Fi
Tags: Monster Kaiju
Keywords: Giant Spider Worm Telephone Lineman Meat Wagon Hacienda Fissure Cowboy Boots Caviar Canary Man Eating Monster Cave Priest Boy Kiss Baby Tank Color In Title Corpse Electrocution City In Panic Psychotronic Film Low Budget Sci Fi Movie Volcanic Eruption Opening Narration Narrator Lava Stock Footage Documentary Footage Giant Scorpion Arachnid Low Budget Horror Stop Motion Creature Live Action And Animation Scientist Canteen Reference To Mount Vesuvius Reference To Mount Pelee Reference To The 1906 San Francisco Earthquake Telephone Line Prehistoric Creature Day For Night Well Destruction Patrol Car Police Car Police Dispatch American In Mexico Rattle Cradle Police Officer Discovering A Dead Body Abandoned Baby Superstition Binoculars Horse View Through Binoculars Saddle Local Legend Obsidian Cowboy Stereo Microscope View Through Microscope Poison Tequila Footprint Plantation Cattle German Shepherd Creature Feature Giant Creature Drool Telephone Call Sombrero Glass Jar Suspended Animation Encased In Amber Specimen Boots Poison Gas Crevice Construction Crane Stowaway Camera Oxygen Tank Cavern Bird Scorpion Stinger Crane Cable Cable Crane Operator Tnt Explosion Army Waterfall Mexico City False Pretenses Aerial Photograph Aerial Surveillance Throat Steam Whistle Train Accident Train Derailment Ambulance Loudspeaker Panic Bloodlust Animal Carcass Trap Vulnerability Weakness Electricity Switch Trapdoor Spider Giant Worm Kaiju Black Scorpion Damsel In Distress Reprisal Vindication Plaid Shirt Walkie Talkie Cage Elevator Small Mexican Village Tepid Romance White Horse Giant Cave Drooling Scorpion Empowered Woman Flash Camera Candlestick Telephone Tape Recorder National University Of Mexico Confirmed Bachelor Geophysical Conference Slide Projector Mink Stole Underground River Origin Of The Species Mass Hysteria Evacuation Endangered Species Child In Jeopardy Caballero Woman Rides A Horse Mass Confusion Fear Animal Killing People Crying People Praying Tokusatsu Photography Giant Monster Sci Fi Mexican Countryside Mexico Scorpion Geologist Train Stadium Myth Martial Law Laboratory Jeep Giant Insect Crane Cattle Ranch Volcano Train Wreck Earthquake Helicopter Desert
Description

An earthquake strikes Mexico, resulting in the overnight birth of a new volcano. Geologists Dr. Hank Scott and Dr. Arturo Ramos are dispatched to study this crisis at the village of San Lorenzo, the two men finding a destroyed house and a totaled police car en route. They find a dead policeman nearby, and an abandoned and seemingly orphaned infant. They take the infant to San Lorenzo and give it to friends of the child\'s missing parents, while being welcomed by the village\'s priest, Father Delgado. Delgado reveals the property damage is caused by something that is slaughtering the livestock, the villagers believing the culprit to be a demon bull and have been pestering Delgado for divine assistance.

Undaunted, Hank and Arturo begin their geological survey as members of the Mexican army under Major Cosio arrive in San Lorenzo to begin disaster-relief efforts. Hank meets and falls in love with local rancher Teresa Alvarez, and makes friends with a young boy named Juanito. When the volcano erupts again, the culprits behind the disappearances and deaths are revealed as giant prehistoric scorpions. After killing a crew of telephone repairmen, the scorpions attack San Lorenzo with the Mexican military unable to harm them. The next morning, the scorpions have returned to their underground lair (which is also home to giant worms and spiders), leaving the authorities to seek the help of renowned entomologist Dr. Velasco. Velasco enlists Hank and Arturo to figure out means of destroying the scorpions or seal off the entrance to the cavern.

Despite collapsing the cave entrance, the giant scorpions took refuge in the caves before resurfacing days later to attack a train. Some of the passengers are killed as in-fighting among the scorpions resolves with the largest of them killing the others before heading for Mexico City. Hank and Arturo come up with a plan to lure it to a stadium with a truckload of meat, with the military distracting it long enough for Hank to kill it by shooting an electric cable attached to a spear into its throat, which is its only vulnerable spot. After destroying several tanks and helicopters, the surviving fighters detonate the electric charge, finally slaying the last scorpion.

Giant scorpions wreck havoc after being released due to volcanic activity.

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