Review – The Deadly Mantis

While I think there might be a good horror story in the combination of monsters and the DEW Line, this isn’t it. A giant bug puppet is unfrozen from the polar ice cap and slowly chews its way south to Washington D.C., surviving multiple attempts to do it in. Though this might not have been so bad back in the 1950s, by 21st century standards the effects are too terrible and the characters too ridiculous for this to be worth much more than a laugh. The sexist treatment of the movie’s only female character is particularly ridiculous. See if desperate