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The Crawling Eye

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The Crawling Eye

Released Dec 31, 1958

1h 24m

Sci-Fi

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In a small Swiss resort town, sisters Anne (Janet Munro) and Sarah Pilgrim (Jennifer Jayne) are worried by Anne's telepathic sense, which goes haywire. Reporter Philip Truscott (Laurence Payne) and U.N. worker Alan Brooks (Forrest Tucker), who's in the area to investigate unusual radiation levels, also sense something is amiss. It turns out vicious extraterrestrials are living in a radiation cloud in the Alps, brutally killing anyone who comes near and threatening to descend upon the town.

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Ian Berriman

SFX Magazine

Although hampered by a low budget and some laughable model work, The Trollenberg Terror certainly has its moments.

Mar 21, 2011

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Mark Bourne

DVDJournal.com

The Crawling Eye (1958) is a bad movie -- but it's the good kind of bad, with not a mean-spirited bone in its gelatinous, pimple-shaped, tentacled, one-eyed body.

Apr 4, 2006

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Linda Cook

Quad City Times (Davenport, IA)

Rated: 3/5

Aug 7, 2005

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Steve Crum

Kansas City Kansan

Arctic build-up to laughable eye finale is overall time waster

Rated: 1/5

Oct 19, 2004

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Tony Toscano

Talking Pictures (U.S.)

Rated: 3/5

Feb 6, 2003

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Nicolas Lacroix

Showbizz.net

Rated: 3/5

Jan 18, 2003

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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 out of 5 stars

12/02/24

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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 out of 5 stars

10/09/23

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Gordon W

Delightful, original, well-written. A real favorite.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

06/29/23

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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 out of 5 stars

02/16/25

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Blobbo X

Giant eyeball scare hell out of Blobbo as young Blob. A classic of its kind.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

03/09/23

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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 out of 5 stars

03/31/23

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Synopsis

In a small Swiss resort town, sisters Anne (Janet Munro) and Sarah Pilgrim (Jennifer Jayne) are worried by Anne's telepathic sense, which goes haywire. Reporter Philip Truscott (Laurence Payne) and U.N. worker Alan Brooks (Forrest Tucker), who's in the area to investigate unusual radiation levels, also sense something is amiss. It turns out vicious extraterrestrials are living in a radiation cloud in the Alps, brutally killing anyone who comes near and threatening to descend upon the town.

Director: Quentin Lawrence
Producer: Robert S Baker, Monty Berman
Screenwriter: Jimmy Sangster
Production Co: Tempean Films
Genre: Sci-Fi
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Dec 31, 1958, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Jan 30, 2017
Runtime: 1h 24m