MST3K 804: The Deadly Mantis

Moving on to the eighth season of Mystery Science Theater 3000, I've watched another one of the black and white Universal movies that opened that period in the show's history. "The Deadly Mantis" pretty much delivers (or at least tries to deliver) what it says, although I've read in a non-Mystery Science Theater context that, as one of the movies trying to follow in Them!'s footsteps (or ant prints), it tried to make a mystery of just what the big bug was this time around but instead left the audience waiting impatiently for what the title gave away.
( 'Why don't they just open Earth's door and let it out?' )