The Black Scorpion - Underground Battle
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I had this movie... it is just as you see it, unedited. It was on VHS, in a purple box with black and white text. Kinda gross how the scorpions gang up on the centipede thingy and dissect it. Nightmares.
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@Vortexica I always thought it was some type of alien centipede with just less arms/legs. lol
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@axecalibore Where did it go after that?
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fucking shiet movie.....
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@InfernoRodan The spider pit sequence is believed lost. However, in the 2005 version of King Kong has a sequence like it.
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@StopmoDave He means the scorpions in the cave.
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"Must be the Grandaddy of them all."
Who? Wilford Brimley?
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It's a pity that this film is overlooked. Okay sure it's no masterpiece in any sense of the word, but as a monster film of that time it's an enjoyable one with Willis O'Brien's great animation. Not the best but not the worst.
It could still do without those numerous close-ups on the faces though along with that Juanito kid. The kid in particular was painful.
Several of the scenes from The Black Scorpion were out-takes from the 1933 version of King Kong.
The Censors didn't want the scenes in the movie due to excessive violence and Merian Cooper felt that these scene made the movie drag.
There is a lot of footage that didn't make it into the movie.
Some of the scenes in K.K. are from an earlier film that was cancelled - CREATION (1932).
Much of the removed footage was replaced in the 70's and is in the current version.
Some was lost forever.
hammerogod 7 months ago
@hammerogod You're partially correct on some of this, but incorrect for the most part. The giant worm and spider models themselves were indeed from the lost Spider Pit sequence from KK33. However, beyond that nothing at all in this movie was taken from KK33. Likewise, no footage in KK33 was originally from Creation (though a couple scenes were inspired by ones in Creation). The dinosaur models from Creation were used in KK33, though.
InfernoRodan 7 months ago