912. The Screaming Skull (1958)

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804. The Deadly Mantis (1957)

Bagging mostly poor notices The Deadly Mantis (1957) opened sharing screens with the spy pic The Girl in the Kremlin (1957). TV Guide pegged it as “A lame rip-off of the sci-fi classic Them!” The title creature at its largest is a papier mache model of a mantis fabricated for filming and operating on a hydraulic system. 200 feet long, 40 feet high, and having a wingspan of 150 feet, it dwarfed over the two smaller models. One six feet long and the other one feet long. These were applied in the w…