"Narrator: Those who hunt by night will tell you that the wildest and most vicious of all animals is the tiny shrew. The shrew feeds only by the dark of the moon. He must eat his own body weight every few hours - or starve. And the shrew devours everything: bones, flesh, marrow... everything. In March, first in Alaska, and then invading steadily southward, there were reports of a new species: the giant, killer shrew."

"'Rook' Griswold: Automatic pilot can't play Dixieland jazz on them banjos like I can!"

"You're a strange man, Thorne. I never met anyone like you. You seem so disinterested in everything. Aren't you the least bit curious? Don't you wonder about the unusual things around here? The guns. The fence. The shattered windows. My accent. Anything?"

"They had to eat 3 times their body weight each day... OR STARVE!"

"Looks like a rat, smells like a skunk - some call them bone-eaters."

"Their available food on ze island is nearing depletion!"

"Your skin will crawl with fear at their nearness"

"Any unusual experiment produces unusual results."

"If you have to be isolated for your work you sure picked a lonely little island."

"Why, that's as big as a full-grown wolf!"

"Don't let their head get under! They'll flip us over!"

"All that was left after...THE KILLER SHREWS!"

"James Best — Captain Thorne Sherman"

"Tom Conway — Dr. Viet"

"Barbara Payton — Dina Van Gelder"

"Raymond Burr — Barney Chavez"

"Lon Chaney Jr. — Police Commissioner Taro"

"Police Commissioner Taro: This is Jungle - lush, green, alive with incredible growth - as young as day, as old as time. I, Taro, Police Commissioner of Itman County, which borders the Amazonas River, know it as well as any man will ever know it. Isn't it beautiful? But I have also learned that beauty can be venomous, deadly, something terrifying, something of prehistoric ages when monstrous superstitions ruled the minds of men, something that has haunted the world for millions of years rose out of that verdant labyrinth. Let me tell you how the jungle itself took the law into its own hands. This was Van Gelder Manor, built to stand against the searing sun, built to shelter generations of Van Gelders, it also has become prey to the powers of the jungle, that terrifying strength that arose to punish a man for his crimes."

"Dr. Viet: White people shouldn't live too long in the jungle. Brings out their bad side, their jealousies and impatience."

"A Blonde Beauty and a Savage Beast... alone in the Jungle!"

"Her marriage vows were more than fulfilled!"

"Her clothes torn away, screaming in terror!"

"NOTE: The management reserves the right to put up the lights any time the audience becomes too emotionally disturbed!"

"We urge you not to panic or bolt from your seats!"

"SHOWN UNCUT! Every terror exactly as filmed!"

"HE GET YOU SCARED STIFF!"

"DON'T BE ASHAMED TO SCREAM - IT HELPS TO RELIEVE THE TENSION"

"We defy you not to get a genuine case of the horrors when you see "The Black Scorpion"!"

"SHOWN UNCUT! ALL ITS HORROR EXACTLY AS FILMED!"

"Every horror you've seen on the screen grows pale beside the horror of "THE BLACK SCORPION""

"Beulah Bondi — Lady Arabella Stevens"

"Frank Reicher — Professor Meiklejohn"

"Paul Weigel — Monsieur Noyer"

"Georges Renavent — Chief of the Sûreté"

"THE HIDEOUS INHUMAN BEING THAT DEFIED EVERY LAW OF NATURE!"

"EARTHQUAKE RELEASES NEW MONSTER HORROR!"

"Out of the volcano they come..."

"Mario Navarro — Juanito"

"Richard Denning — Dr. Hank Scott"

"Mara Corday — Teresa Alvarez"

"Carlos Rivas — Dr. Arturo Ramos"

"The management reserves the right to put up the lights any time the audience becomes too emotionally disturbed. We urge you not to panic or bolt from your seats."

"Philip Coolidge — Oliver 'Ollie' Higgins"

"Here passes from this earth Helene Delambre, widow of my brother, Andre, whom I loved deeply, hopelessly. She was destroyed in the end by dreadful memories, a recollection of horrors that did not dim as the years went on, but instead grew monstrously, and left her mind shocked and unsteady, so that death, when it came, was a blessed release."

"Pamela Lincoln — Lucy Stevens"

"Darryl Hickman — David Morris"

"Isabel Stevens Chapin — Patricia Cutts"

"Put him in the cabinet quickly."

"SEE - The screen's first BLOOD BATH IN COLOR!"