So after The Chilling we had a run of non-horror, with two sci-fi films, Michael Crichton’s Runaway and the Don Johnson starrer A Boy and His Dog, followed by The Apple. All OK to good movies in their ways, but I’d seen them all before and don’t love any of them. Then it was time for my sponsored movie (although as I have nothing to promote I let Petersen Games take the credit), The Black Scorpion. All my movie choices were black and white, and thank goodness, since again except for Plan 9 it was the ONLY black and white movie this year. I will say the crowd sounded pleased when the movie started, so I am surely not alone with my deep love of seeing fab ’50s giant monsters on a big screen. The movie is OK, but Willis O’Brien’s scorpions are just fabulous. Aside from being in black & white, it was one of only three films–again, Plan 9 was another–made outside the 1973-1994 period.
