Black Scorpion (1995)

Directed by

Jonathan Winfrey

Genre

action film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 32m

Rated

R

Rating

5.5 of 10 from 32 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A police detective named Darcy Walker fights crime at night as the costumed vigilante Black Scorpion. She uses martial arts and gadgets to stop exaggerated villains in a comic book style world.

campycomedicplayfulnostalgicfast-pacedlightheartedexaggerated

What happens

Black Scorpion is a 1995 American superhero comedy television film directed by Jonathan Winfrey, written by Craig J. Nevius, and starring Joan Severance as the eponymous costumed crime fighter. Roger Corman was the executive producer, and it was originally released on the Showtime cable network on August 22, 1995 as part of the Roger Corman Presents series. The film concerns the comic book-style adventures of Darcy Walker, a police detective whose secret identity is the Black Scorpion, a superhero vigilante for justice. Like Batman, she fights evildoers with a combination of martial arts, great agility and strength, and many technological devices, including a high-powered, specially equipped car. Also like the Batman TV series of the 1960s, Black Scorpion is a work of camp, using deliberately exaggerated and unrealistic characters and events to comic effect. Black Scorpion was followed by a 1997 sequel, Black Scorpion II. In 2001, the Sci-Fi Channel aired a Black Scorpion TV series that starred Michelle Lintel in the title role. Black Scorpion was turned into a comic-book series, published digitally by Devil's Due Publishing. There was also a one-off Isis / Black Scorpion comic published by Bluewater Productions. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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