Black Scorpion (film)

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Black Scorpion
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Directed by	Jonathan Winfrey
Produced by	Mike Elliott
Written by	Craig J. Nevius
Starring	Joan Severance Bruce Abbott Garrett Morris
Music by	Kevin Kiner
Cinematography	Geoff George
Editing by	Tom Petersen Gwyneth Gibby
Distributed by	Showtime
Release date(s)	August 12, 1995
Running time	90 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Followed by	Black Scorpion II: Aftershock
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This article is about the 1995 film. For other uses, see Black Scorpion.

Black Scorpion is a 1995 comedy-action film 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 as part of the Roger Corman Presents series.

The movie concerns the comic book style adventures of Darcy Walker, a police detective whose secret identity is the Black Scorpion, a superhero vigilante for justice. The Black Scorpion does not have any actual super powers but, 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. And 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: Aftershock. In 2001, the Sci-Fi Channel aired a Black Scorpion TV series that starred Michelle Lintel in the title role.