thirty per cent of this movie appear to be the prototype for the map channel . you see a giant map for about ten minute and then they unleash the stock footage big time while drone ( drone and get it . ) on about radar . apparently there a lot of radar station in the far north and protect north america border from attack by deadly polar bear . the bear never show up and but a giant mantis do . it be freeze in the ice for over a million year or so and until it be release by an earthquake somewhere else in the world ( yeah and right . for my money and it be release by global warming ) . it be a huge prehistoric insect and and it need lot of food . since there aren not any cow in the frozen north and it decide to feast on the most bovine like creature it can find up there . i. e. and human being . it start attack radar station and probably because the humming from the radar dish be get on it nerve . enter col. joe parkman and the resident smarmy guy of the film . he investigate a plane that go down and and be puzzle why there be no body in the wreckage . the only thing he find be one of the claw of the mantis . apparently it decide to trim it nail while it be snack on the plane crew . parkman take the claw tip back with him to be analyze by a thousand year old scientist . grandpa scientist can not make head or tail of the claw and mostly because he miss his nap so his mind isn not function too well . so he call in a smug paleontologist play by the guy who be the p. i. in perry mason . he and his friend and a transvestite photographer and fly north because he decide that the claw must have come from a pray mantis . just one the size of a commuter train . it luke warm love at first sight when col. parkman first set eye on the she male photographer . the men at the base and obviously have be deprive for many year and think she the hot thing to come along since granny clampett . smug science guy and smarmy soldier guy start work together to track the path of the mantis and which have devastate some stock footage of an eskimo village . it come to the base look for an after dinner snack and and crush some cheap set quite effectively . then it fly south and disappears . now come the tense hour when the civilian ground observer core be call on to sweep the sky look for anything large fly overhead . i doubt that in reality they would have be tell that they be look for a giant fly mantis that eat human being and since that would haver cause a panic . probably they be tell to look for a giant 727 that be paint green and hum because it engine be out of tune . col. parkman go up in a plane to try to shoot the mantis down and and botch the mission . the mantis land in new york city and probably because it want to take in a show on broadway or visit sex world in time square . the army corner it in the tunnel and and parkman and his men don stupid suit that they borrow from the orkin man to go in and try to blow the mantis up . success . well and almost and since the mantis be still twitch enough that it almost kill the mannish eve arden photographer lady . there a tepid love scene at the end and and the paleontologist take a picture of the dead mantis because colonel hair grease and ms. gender unspecified be busy smooch . so kind of a nauseating end .