Scorpions are scary enough when they’re normal sized. They suck the shit right out of their victims form the inside. And they’re hard to kill. Now, big scorpions are really scary and hard to kill, but Mega Scorpions? Just move. They only grow near illegal dumps and you should be living by those anyway. Leave it to the scorpions.
Full Moon Features just released a trailer of their new streaming movie, Mega Scorpions. It’s actually a ten year old homage to giant bug movies like Tarantula called Deadly Stingers by director J.R. Bookwalter who made The Dead Next Door. Full Moon put a new title on it and is throwing it up as a streaming film on their website.
Mega Scorpions stars Trent Haaga, Marcella Laasch, Sewell Whitney, Brinke Stevens, Stephen O’Mahoney, Ariauna Albright, Sarah Megan White, Lilith Stabs, Nicholas Read, and Jeff Dylan Graham. It takes place in a small town where toxic dumping has given scorpions a growth spurt. A big growth spurt, those two to three inch spiders are now six feet long. And they’re hungry. They are going after a bunch of juvenile delinquents who are stuck at a halfway house. There’s no half way to kill a scorpion though.
J.R. Bookwalter made his first movie, the zombie pic The Dead Next Door, in 1985 when he was 19. He also made Ozone and Polymorph. He produced 12 features in three years for Full Moon Pictures and directed two Witchhouse sequels.
Not to discourage anyone from enjoying this free tidbit, but Bookwalter himself calls the original movie Deadly Stinkers. Reviews at the time said it promised to be a horror comedy in the vein of the mutant insect movies of the fifties, but is really low-budget, has porn-style acting and the scorpions don’t make it onscreen soon enough.
That’s fine by me. I, as anyone who reads me knows, root not just for the bad guys, but for most monster. I mean, I love Rick and Carl, but on The Walking Dead, I’m rooting for the zombies. So, bring on the Mega Scorpions.
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