The Crawling Eye

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Ted B 3.0 stars; Not a bad sci-fi thriller for the 50s. I thought the concept (for those times) was pretty good. The Brits did a pretty good job of making horror flicks back then. In fact, when I saw this movie in the 60s, it was pretty scary—that is until they revealed the cornball, low-budget creatures. It was a good thing they waited until the very end to show the creatures. Too bad they didn't have CGI in those days. It could have been a classic horror film. Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 12/02/24 Full Review Dallas H The movie has cheeseball special effects and a visual concept for an alien, but still, it's a fun movie to watch from a goofy fun standpoint. Rated 2.5/5 Stars •  Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 10/09/23 Full Review CodyZamboni Z Surprisingly violent for its' time, Attractive female cast, Mediocre plot, A climax with, lame amateurish cheesy fx, ruins all suspense, Rated 2.5/5 Stars •  Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 02/16/25 Full Review Blobbo X Giant eyeball scare hell out of Blobbo as young Blob. A classic of its kind. Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 03/09/23 Full Review tom t Judge this movie for what it is - a well-made, well-acted low budget movie, rather than comparing it to big-budget movies. There are some truly scary moments in this film, such as when someone opens the door to the hotel and in come the flailing arms of the crawling eye. This is a classic from my childhood, and when I rented it a few years back on Netflix - before they deleted thousands of old movies :-( - I found that it held up surprisingly well. If you're in to B&W sci-fi movies from the 50s and 60s, you may well dig this one too. If this genre doesn't float your boat, well then why are you even reading this? Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 03/31/23 Full Review Audience Member Known as The Trollenberg Terror in England, where it was made, The Crawling Eye has exactly what you want to see: a giant eyeball. If we didn't have this, we wouldn't have The Fog, as this movie directly inspired John Carpenter. See, great things can come out of a movie whose special effects consist of cotton balls stapled to mountain photography. Originally a six-episode TV miniseries, this was remade with American Forest Tucker placed into the lead so that audiences in the states would have someone to root for. Or maybe they'd be like me, excited to see gigantic eyeballs come rolling along at the camera. He plays UN troubleshooter Alan Brooks, who has traveled to the Swiss mountain of Trollenberg to learn why the heads of climbers are being torn off their body and why a mysterious cloud is seen in the wake of the bloody destruction. Do you know how you defeat a giant eyeball? A Molotov cocktail. Horror movies make you smart, right? Rated 2/5 Stars •  Rated 2 out of 5 stars 02/06/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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