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I'll have a nice announcement tomorrow, but tonight I thought I'd give a big tribute to one of our major influences:
Bill Black of Paragon Publications, Nightveil Media (Stormy Tempest, Blue Bulleteer, Nightveil movies etc), AC Comics,
and Fem Force, the most legendary good-girl superheroine comic book series of all time.

Mainly because I just found out that his long-awaited superhero movie Scarlet Scorpion is finally done after a wait of several
years. In fact, it's been done since the summer, but nobody bothered to announce it here (I saw a post on another forum).

So here we go. "Scarlet Scorpion" is Bill Black's magnum superhero opus, and very relevant to this forum for several reasons.
First of all, there are several big Fem Force fans here, and the tone of the movie is very 1970s/1980s, right down to the hairstyles
and the rock 'n roll-meets-John Carpenter soundtrack.

But mostly because it's got a great superheroine in a shiny red catsuit! Played by Cat LoCicero, she's the second Scarlet Scorpion in the
movie (the first one is male, a scientist named Rick Trent). Both Scorpions are wearing intelligent alien battle suits delivered unexpectedly to Earth by a spaceship of unknown origin. And both suits protect the wearer from harm and give him/her amazing strength, super breath, superspeed and other powers (Cat uses heat vision at one point).

The whole movie is fun to watch, just the most joyous expression of superhero geekness imaginable, and a fitting tribute to the life story and efforts of Bill Black, who apparently first created the Scarlet Scorpion character **in 1959** (when he was just a young lad).
If you're an AC Comics/Fem Force fan, you'll enjoy the cameo appearances of some of the characters from that comic.

But if you're just mainly there for the lady in the costume, you'll want to focus primarily on the second half of the movie, which features her origin with a transformation scene, a display of superpowers, some nice fighting sequences, and a knockout and tie-up.
There's also an evil villainess from another planet, Dutchess Sadistica, although she doesn't stay very long, since the main villain is
The big bad Iron Claw..kind of a Doctor Doom analogue who reminds me of that Youtuber Doomcock.

Pretty much everything you'd want in a superheroine production which stays firmly in the campy, tongue-in-cheek, PG vein.

You can get the Scarlet Scorpion movie to download for $14.95 here:
http://www.nightveilmedia.com/downloads ... on-feature

Highly recommended for anyone who is really into everything that the DIY superhero movie-making genre is all about!

And now here are some stills.

Mark Lester as Scarlet Scorpion. Great costume design!
Blue Bulleteer cameo - she shows up in a comic book convention sequence.
Cat LoCicero in the mask, as the female Scarlet Scorpion.
The villainess Duchess Sadistica who's in the extended fight scene.
The female Scarlet Scorpion knocked out and tied up.
Cameo appearance by Nyoka the Jungle Girl who is manhandled by a damn dirty ape.

Cat transforming into Scarlet Scorpion as the suit takes over her body.
Female Scarlet Scorpion fighting with thug.
The vendor at the Comic Con is reading a Paragon Publications book about the history of Bill Black's first comic book company
(before AC Comics).
Cat LoCicero during the swimsuit sequence.
The cameo of Tara from FemForce.
The cameo of Synn from FemForce. Really wish Bill Black would make a movie with this sexy heroine who has mind powers.

I've watched it and it's cheesy..but a LOT of FUN!

Femfan1 wrote: ↑

5 years ago

I've watched it and it's cheesy..but a LOT of FUN!

Glad you enjoyed it. And it's right up the alley of this forum!

However, there is also some sad news: this is the last complete movie that Bill Black will ever make.
Although he is still putting out Fem Force comics at a regular rate, he is gradually closing up his office, and will not be making
any more live-action productions due to his current health status.

So pick up all of the previous products you can, especially the live-action downloads.
A salute to the amazing creator of Fem Force, AC Comics and Nightveil Media!

Great news, folks! Bill Black of FemForce had a successful operation and is feeling great.
He has decided to keep making movies after all, and is going to start filming a SHE-CAT movie as of next week,
starring Sabina Karac, who is in the Tara movie.

Here are a couple photos of Bill getting ready for the shoot! As soon as there are photos of Sabina, I'll post them here,
since it's the newest thread about FemForce-related films.

Bill was testing out the green screen today!
Bill is wearing his Heroineburgh T-shirt while getting ready for the filming.
Bill in front of the "Mummy's Tomb" (one of the locations which will be in the film).
GO FEM FORCE!

Guess what? The She-Cat movie is in production. And it's Kaley Redfield playing She-Cat!

(Sabina Karac actually plays She-Cat in a Tara movie by director Mark Dail...I'll have to find out when that comes out).

Bill Black and Nightveil Media are back!

Bill Black announced that they finished filming "The Mummy Creeps" (featuring She-Cat) today!
Something about completing "94 scenes" in one day - that's quite a lot, so the scenes must have been rather short.
Nonetheless, principal photography is completed for the latest Fem Force-related movie on Nightveil Media.
Can't wait to see the final product with the lovely Kaley Redfield in that tight costume.
Hopefully she (or even better, the mummy) removes the jacket at least a few times!

Some photos that Bill Black just posted on both the FemForce Facebook group and the CultRetro.com Facebook page.
She-Cat is part of "The Mummy Creeps" movie which is apparently a movie inside a movie, as explained:

"Since THE MUMMY CREEPS is a movie within a movie (clever way to make a Mummy movie without actually making a Mummy movie) there is excessive duality to the project. As example: There are two Mummies, two She-Cats, two She-Cat masks, two directors, two High Priests, two Princesses, two Heathers... on and on. The story involves a zero budget film producer who gets supernatural help from a Demon to complete the movie."

Maskripper is gonna like this!

Kayley looks gorgeous.