Average Rating: 4.2/10
Reviews Counted: 8
Fresh: 2 | Rotten: 6
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Release Date: May 1, 1957 Wide
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Average Rating: 2.8/5
User Ratings: 696
This is the one in which the "villain" is a huge, carnivorous praying mantis. After the titular insect has attacked several people in a remote Arctic region, Col. Joe Parkham (Craig Stevens) swings into action. Parkham and his associates, Dr. Ned Jackson (William Hopper) and Ned's assistant Margie Blake (Alix Talton), track the predatory mantis as it heads southward to Washington DC (how did it get past customs?) The green monstrosity meets its Waterloo in "Manhattan Tunnel", where it is
May 1, 1957 Wide
May 13, 2008
Universal Pictures
All Critics (9) | Fresh (2) | Rotten (6) | DVD (3)
Very '50s sci-fi with giant insect on the climb, and typically fun overall.
Fun entry into the giant bug movies of the 1950s
An affront to the grace and dignity of giant bug movies.
One of Universal-International cheapie '50s bug movies. Bring on the DDT.
The military use smoke and chemical bombs (maybe they contained Raid) to kill it, as the film mercifully ends.
If you don't believe the Incredible Truth movie when they say the ice caps are melting, maybe this movie will make you think twice? Who wants a giant praying Mantis running around? This movie is silly, but it's got cool special effects and the story's not bad.
September 5, 2010Super Reviewer
Seismic activity in the southern hemisphere triggers vibrations at the arctic icecap, releasing a gigantic mantis religiosa that was frozen in the ice some 15 million years earlier. Pissed off and hungry, the enormous insect migrates south, taking out arctic radar stations, airplanes and even Eskimos along the way.
January 21, 2009
Super Reviewer
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