Scorpio Rising
- 1963
- 28m
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6.8/10
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A gang of Nazi bikers prepares for a race as sexual, sadistic, and occult images are cut together.A gang of Nazi bikers prepares for a race as sexual, sadistic, and occult images are cut together.A gang of Nazi bikers prepares for a race as sexual, sadistic, and occult images are cut together.
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- 1 win
Ernie Allo
- Joker
- (uncredited)
Bruce Byron
- Scorpio
- (uncredited)
Frank Carifi
- Leo
- (uncredited)
Steve Crandell
- Blondie
- (uncredited)
Johnny Dodds
- Kid
- (uncredited)
Bill Dorfman
- Back
- (uncredited)
Nelson Leigh
- Jesus Christ
- (archive footage)
- (uncredited)
John Palone
- Pinstripe
- (uncredited)
Barry Rubin
- Fall Guy
- (uncredited)
Johnny Sapienza
- Taurus
- (uncredited)
- Director
- Writers
- Kenneth Anger(uncredited)
- Ernest D. Glucksman
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- TriviaBruce Byron worked as a motorcycle messenger in Manhattan. His zodiac sign was Scorpio, and so he called himself that, as well as carrying at all times the scorpion amulet which he is seen kissing and holding in the film. The honorable discharge certificate from the United States Marine Corps, on the wall above his bed, was his own, as were all the pictures of James Dean and Marlon Brando, of whom he was a big fan. He is seen reading the Sunday comics section from a newspaper, which really was his favorite thing to read. The newspaper clipping near his bed, with the headline "CYCLE HITS HOLE & KILLS TWO," was about an accident in Times Square that had killed one of his friends. Another friend, who worked in a medical-products factory in New Jersey, had supplied him with the pure methamphetamine powder which he snorts from his fingers during the "Heat Wave" sequence.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Arena: Hollywood Babylon (1991)
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He's a rebel
Ever sit there looking at a Michael Bay movie, or a Martin Scorsese movie, or a Portishead video, or a CK1 commercial, and think, "So where did this come from, anyway?" The answer is Kenneth Anger's remarkable 1964 short film, the barbaric birth yawp of modern (and postmodern) cinema as we know it. Ostensibly a fetishistic self-generated porn reel, made, as Genet wrote his fiction, for the maker's masturbatory pleasure, SCORPIO RISING pulls together unlicensed pop songs with obsessive images of hunky guys, leather, chrome, comic strips, and death, to create a code for the programming of music, picture, and unspoken content that would go on to inform everything you see from Nicolas Roeg to VH-1. God knows where poor Anger is rubbing two nickels together, but tonight, say a prayer of thanks for the guy who made all your culture, the good, the bad and the ugly, possible.
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