The End!

Well is is the end of June already, where has the time been going these days. I decided to finish up June bugs with two of my favorites. The first one being The Deadly Mantis from 1957. It is a black and white science fiction movie with a great cast. This has a good but pretty simple story line, giant killer insect monster killing people. The calving of an Arctic iceberg releases a giant praying mantis, trapped in suspended animation since prehistoric times. It first attacks military outposts to eat their occupants, then makes its way to the warmer latitudes of Washington and New York. A paleontologist works together with military units to try to kill it.

The second movie is Bug from 1975. It was written by William Castle, directed by Jeannot Szwarc and based on a novel from 1973 called The Hephaestus Plague.  An earthquake releases a large number of cockroaches from deep in the ground that have the ability to set fire. Eventually most of the bugs die because they cannot survive in the low air pressure on the Earth's surface, but a scientist keeps one alive in a pressure chamber. He successfully breeds the cockroach with a modern bug creating a breed of intelligent, flying super-bugs.