8 Props That Were Originally Designed For Other Movies
6. The Spider & Worm Miniatures Were Made For 1933's King Kong - The Black Scorpion
Edward Ludwig's cult classic 1957 horror film The Black Scorpion boasts some impressively well-aged stop-motion animation effects, as a fleet of giant prehistoric scorpions run amok on the surface of the Earth.
The scorpions' underground lair also features a number of other grotesquely oversized critters, such as trapdoor spiders and worms, both of which were actually created by the film's stop-motion supervisor, Willis H. O'Brien, for the 1933 King Kong movie.
The spider and worm were originally supposed to appear in the film's infamous, now-lost "spider pit sequence," in which a fleet of giant creatures would devour the expedition's crew members.
Studio RKO ultimately deemed the footage too violent and cut the scene, which due to a lack of preservation has sadly been lost beyond a few stills confirming its existence.
But O'Brien allowed the scene to live on in a small way by re-using the spider and worm almost 25 years later in Ludwig's film.