Oct. 11, 2023

This Day in Halloween: The giant-bug-eats-Mexico-City movie "The Black Scorpion" opens across the U.S. in 1957. / Illustration by Brooke Ramirez

The Black Scorpion opens across the U.S. in 1957. The giant-bug-eats-Mexico-City movie features stop motion animation by Willis O’Brien and is later featured on Mystery Science Theater 3000.

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