LOL

After I posted my idea for a Sci-Fi thriller entitled “Mantis”, it was brought to my attention that this has been done before… multiple times. Heres a look at one plot summary from IMDB.com

The Deadly Manits (1966)

In the Arctic, an earthquake breaks apart a glacier, and from within emerges a giant praying mantis, which takes to the air. It flies over a village of terrified Eskimos, attacks a remote radar outpost, and downs a military cargo transport plane before attacking an American military post. There, Colonel Parkman and his men attempt to stop the creature, but to no avail; it destroys the post and flies off into the night… Ground forces attempt to shoot it down, without success, and the Air Force intervenes to engage it in flight. Finally, the mantis collides with a jet and, injured, falls to earth and takes refuge in a tunnel under the Hudson River. Parkman leads troops into the tunnel for the final battle with the deadly mantis.

I guess they didn’t have radioactive monsters in the 1960’s but that’s a lot more believable then a prehistoric insect trapped in the artic released by a volcanic eruption on the other side of the globe.