I always find it interesting to see lobby cards that stress a romantic angle for a horror movie. It seems so contrary to the selling point of the movie, which would be terror, scares, or jeers (depending on the quality). Of course, you don't see much romance at all today in horror cinema, but in the 1950s and 1960s it was either the monster wanted the girl or the hero wanted the girl, or the monster just wanted to eat both of them and be done with it. So on this Mexican lobby card for The Black Scorpion, we get a back-grounded monster and some military action, but a lot of romance up front. Go figure. On the plus side, the stop motion work was supervised by Willis O'Brien and Richard Denning is the hero. I like Richard Denning.
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