Watch The Deadly Mantis (1957) Free Online

Release Date: 1957

Cast: Ned LeFevre, Craig Stevens, William Hopper, Jack Mather, Jess Kirkpatrick, Tom Greenway, John Close, Pat Conway

Categories: Movies, Natural horror films, Science Fiction, Horror, Sci-Fi Horror, Monster, Disaster

The Deadly Mantis is a 1957 science fiction film produced by William Alland for Universal-International Pictures. It was directed by Nathan Juran from a screenplay by Martin Berkeley, and starred Craig Stevens, William Hopper, Alix Talton, and Pat Conway. It was filmed in black and white and runs for 79 minutes. In February 1997, The Deadly Mantis was featured as an episode of movie-mocking television show Mystery Science Theater 3000. In the South Seas, a volcano explodes, eventually causing North Pole icebergs to shift. Below the melting polar ice caps, a 200-foot-long praying mantis,... MORE

The Deadly Mantis is a 1957 science fiction film produced by William Alland for Universal-International Pictures. It was directed by Nathan Juran from a screenplay by Martin Berkeley, and starred Craig Stevens, William Hopper, Alix Talton, and Pat Conway. It was filmed in black and white and runs for 79 minutes. In February 1997, The Deadly Mantis was featured as an episode of movie-mocking television show Mystery Science Theater 3000. In the South Seas, a volcano explodes, eventually causing North Pole icebergs to shift. Below the melting polar ice caps, a 200-foot-long praying mantis, trapped in the ice for centuries, begins to stir. Soon after, the military personnel at Red Eagle One, a military station in northern Canada that monitors information gathered from the Distant Early Warning Line, realize that the men at one of their outposts are not responding to calls. Commanding officer Col. Joe Parkman flies there to investigate, and finds the post destroyed, its men disappeared and giant slashes left in the snow outside. When a blip on the outpost's radar screen is soon sighted, Joe sends his pilots out, and one is attacked. Joe searches the wreckage, and this time, in addition LESS