Ray Harryhousen! One of his earlier movies. When he was still working with Willis O’Brien. A volcano erupts and destroys a city and people are expelled from their home. Like Robot Vs. The Aztec Mummy this is a Mexican production so fear for the worst. Two guys drive up to the volcano and they talk about why an American is in Mexican soul to geology. The driving effect is so bad. They’re clearing not going in the way they’re driving. They cross the border and they hear a loud roar in the distance. They drive towards a gas station that looks like it was destroyed by the volcano. They find a torn up police car so they get suspicious. The professor (the native) talks to the cops on the radio. They hear more noises and instead of leaving after seeing the destroyed car, they walk towards it because they think it’s a rattlesnake. Turns out it’s a baby playing with a rattle. I wasn’t expecting that honestly. Good twist movie. They leave with the baby and they leave towards San Lorenzo. They hear more roars off in the distance and…they leave the baby. Smart move. I am just used to watching idiots. They go foreword and they find the dead cop.

After Crawling Hand, I’m honestly expecting them to leave the body there, but like smart people they report it and give all the info. They make it to San Lorenzo and the people immediately come them upon and the priest of the town comes to them and a lady takes the baby. They speak with the priest over dinner and they talk about the fear of the people. They sleep at the town for the rest of the night and cut to next morning. They are asked by a military guy to not go towards the trouble and if they do they’ll have to waste resources to find them. They go anyway and drive off to the area ruined by the volcano and they find a girl riding a horse. She falls off the horse and they drive off to find her. They meet her and she’s perfectly fine. A few bruises excluded and some wounded pride. The American and the cowgirl hit it off kin of well as the professor finds some rocks on top of rocks. Joel and the bots joke that they found the 10 Commandments. The rock he found was Obsidian and he shouldn’t be surprised. A volcano just erupted so obviously it would be there. They do some more bad driving shot and they drive back to San Lorenzo. Cowgirl talks to some other dudes in cowboy hats and they talk about them leaving the land. They agree though that they’ll return to help her though. They talk to a scientist and they find out that the cop was killed via poison. They bring up snakes and spiders, but not scorpions. Guess they don’t know the title of the movie. The scientist asks for some alcohol, Tequila, salt water, and the poison. Alcohol, salt water, and poison for the test. The tequila for what us Americans would call a coffee break. That was actually a pretty funny line. The cowboys ride off and the cowgirl’s land wasn’t destroyed apparently. So the professor and Scott (The American) meet up at the Cowgirl’s giant house and one of them goes off to shower. Scott and the cowgirl talk about sleeping together, but the professor brings up that they found a fossilized scorpion in the obsidian. The newest Fossil Pokémon! I think it should be a Bug, Fire type! They crack it open and the scorpion is alive. They’re about to go off, but the phone goes off. The universe just doesn’t want them to sleep together yet! They get a call saying that the phone lines were fixed, but a giant scorpion attacks the workers!

One of them just stands there and dies while the other wisely decides to stay on the pole. Another guy tries driving off, but his truck doesn’t start and he is killed. The pole guy is grabbed and killed. The kid in the house runs after the dog that fled (It just kind of happened) and he runs into the scorpion. Another volcano erupts and the people flee. Actually it’s the scorpion. The cops try to shoot with an upside down gun, but they can’t kill it. The village is destroyed and the people are forced to leave. They conclude they that the scorpion’s species was from thousands of years ago. So it could be the surviving scorpion from Clash of the Titans it just bred and reproduced somehow. Then they got bigger and bigger, somehow got to Mexico, and slept beneath a volcano. They plan to kill it with gas and I just realized that the kid was named Juanita. I prefer Juan Jon Silver (Inside joke that no one will ever get). He’s simply an annoyance. After crappier driving shots they find dead cows so at least they know they’re close to the thing. A horse rider falls down a mountain and they say they need to go to a lower level to save him. He’s dead. No shock. What they conclude though is that a recent earthquake made the crevice he fell down. If I were a gambling man, I’d say that the scorpion was living there. Juanita snuck on and everyone is fine with it. Why are kids in movies so dumb and annoying? Scott and the Professor go down the crevice via crane elevator with some canaries. Smart. They find the scorpion and they take a picture of it before bringing them highe- lower. Okay. You could arm yourselves with smoke stuff and drop that stuff ands – For gods’ sake! Juanita snuck down! This is why I hate kids. They whine, they complain, and only brush their teeth when they’re told because they’re too stupid to do otherwise (Bonus points it you get that reference)! As I was saying drop the smoke weapons and shoot at the scorpion from a distance to maximize safety. Looks like there is another giant creature. A giant inchworm maybe. Thank god I still have yet to see a giant centipede or millipede. (Shudders in disgust) SEVERAL scorpions show up and they don’t bother going back to the elevator.

More of a white scorpion than anything

Please tell me Juanita is just left down there when they escape. Ugh I hate kids. He leaves and starts wonder, but first GIANT MONSTER FIGHT! $20 says the scorpion wins!

I am right and it wins in mere seconds. Then the scorpion just cut’s it in half and starts eating it! Metal as hell. After watching the largest one kill, another scorpion they learn the weak point is the neck. Back to the dumbass he comes across a trap door spider and like an idiot he pulls it open, but before he can get caught and cocooned (Or whatever the term is) he runs out. He calls out for help and sadly the guys don’t ignore him.

He backs into a corner and he almost dies. Someone should beat some sense into him. ‘Wanted to help!’ You would help by simply not being here! A scorpion shows up and destroys the crane elevator leaving them all stranded because they looked for Juanita. They hold onto the wire and are slowly brought up. With ALL of them safe (Sadly the stupid child is still around). People just shrug off kids doing stupid things as kids! People should just scold this kid and give him a slap across the face. They set off some explosives and plug up the chasm. They leave for…a place and I’m fully expecting Juanita to hop out of the trunk of their car. They talk about killing the scorpions and next scene, some guy named Hank and the Cowgirl have dinner and drinks. A crap ton of scorpions show up and attack a train. The scorpions kill a ton of people and the remains flee. Then the scorpions fight amongst themselves for the food. The city is evacuated in preparation for the scorpion attack and we hear that the largest scorpion is the only one left due to killing the rest. The scorpion arrives and starts its massacre as the military waits for the scorpion to come to them. They lure the scorpion to the stadium where the military is waiting. They shoot it when it arrives and a guy launches a large harpoon at the scorpion’s throat and misses.

SHOOT HER!

They shoot again this time they succeed. There is a lot of reusing footage in this scene. Almost as bad as Robot Monster, but so not as bad as Robot V. The Aztec Mummy. The End! The opening segment is a party being thrown and I assume its cause of the end of the seasons. The Mads tried to make a cold fusion Walkman and it had mutated the two. Larry gets mutated and Dr. F is just a walking, talking skeleton. Pretty funny. Joel’s is a giant party blower. Next skit is them playing mariachi music at the party party and eat Mexican food. Like typical MST3K they flash up fake subtitles and it’s pretty funny. Next skit is the bots talking about Joel sleeping and Gypsy shows up with fangs. They also talk about how weird it is that he pees. Okay now I get Gypsy’s thing. She’s pretending to be the giant scorpion. Then they talk about shaving. People are weird. The skit thankfully ends with Gypsy attacking Tom and they explode. That was kind of funny. Next skit is Joel telling the bots about Willis O’Brien and Ray Harryhousen and why their work looks so similar. The stop motion effect for the giant scorpion is perfectly fine and typical Harryhousen and O’Brien effects, but the animatronic of the head isn’t that good. Even then it’s just because it’s ugly and doesn’t do anything other than drool. I’d just like to think that this is preparation for the scorpions from Clash of the Titans. This movie and episode were pretty good. Like I’ve said before I have a soft spot for cheesy monster movies like this so it’s touch to hate it. Well…Aside from Juanita! The episode was pretty funny to. I had a good time. Recommended!

Episode Rating – 7/10

Movie Rating – 7/10

Favorite Riff – “Now if you look to your left, you’ll see the rest of the train.”

Possible Stinger – The giant scorpion killing the giant worm in an instant

Episode – One of the few I cannot find

Trailer – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HdQxw0z44JQ