{"id":41866,"date":"2026-06-12T07:42:49","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T11:42:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=41866"},"modified":"2026-06-12T07:42:50","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T11:42:50","slug":"the-black-scorpion-1957-starring-richard-denning-mara-corday-z-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=41866","title":{"rendered":"The Black Scorpion (1957) starring Richard Denning &amp; Mara Corday \/ Z-View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2026\/z061226zview_bkscorp.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"764\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong><i>The Black Scorpion <\/i>(1957)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Director: <strong>Edward Ludwig<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Screenplay: \u00a0<strong>Robert Blees, David Duncan<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Stars:\u00a0 <strong>Richard Denning, Mara Corday, Carlos Rivas, Mario Navarro<\/strong><strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tagline: <em>Every horror you&#8217;ve seen on the screen grows pale beside the horror of &#8220;THE BLACK SCORPION&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>The Plot&#8230;<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">An earthquake in Mexico gives rise to a new active volcano.\u00a0 Geologists Dr. Hank Scott and Dr. Arturo Ramos are sent to ground zero to assess damage.\u00a0 As they close in on the epicenter, they discover houses and cars destroyed but not from the earthquake or volcano.\u00a0 Locals believe a demon is killing their cattle and causing the damage.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It&#8217;s not demons but prehistoric scorpions that now have a path to the surface.\u00a0 These monsters are on the loose and hungry!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Thoughts (beware of spoilers)\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Willis O&#8217;Brien, who created the stop-motion effects <em>King Kong<\/em> (1933), supervised the special effects for <em>The Black Scorpion<\/em>.\u00a0 Although working with a much smaller budget, most of this movie&#8217;s charm is from O&#8217;Brien&#8217;s work.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The giant trapdoor spider and enormous worm were models left over (and not used) from<em> King Kong<\/em> (1933).<\/p>\n<p>If the sounds made by the giant scorpions sound familiar, give another listen to the sounds of the ants in <em>Them!<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: inherit; color: initial;\"><strong><i>The Black Scorpion <\/i>(1957)<\/strong> rates 2 of 5 stars.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/logo\/zview_d.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"100\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2026\/z061226zview_bkscorp2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"295\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Black Scorpion (1957) Director: Edward Ludwig Screenplay: \u00a0Robert Blees, David Duncan Stars:\u00a0 Richard Denning, Mara Corday, Carlos Rivas, Mario<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[17,53,54,65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebs","category-horror","category-movies","category-trivia"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41866","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41866"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41866\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41872,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41866\/revisions\/41872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}