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The Crawling Eye

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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 03/21/2011
Although hampered by a low budget and some laughable model work, The Trollenberg Terror certainly has its moments. Go to Full Review
Mark Bourne DVDJournal.com 04/04/2006
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. Go to Full Review
Linda Cook Quad City Times (Davenport, IA) 08/07/2005
3/5
Steve Crum Kansas City Kansan 10/19/2004
1/5
Arctic build-up to laughable eye finale is overall time waster Go to Full Review
Tony Toscano Talking Pictures (U.S.) 02/06/2003
3/5
Nicolas Lacroix Showbizz.net 01/18/2003
3/5
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Stephen C @bob25009 Oct 30 Success in 1 hour and 24 minutes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Dubbed and subtitled in worldwide studios!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Filmed in color and black and white versions!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! See more Ted B @Movieaddicted 12/02/2024 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. See more Dallas H 10/09/2023 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. See more CodyZamboni Z 04/26/2023 Surprisingly violent for its' time, Attractive female cast, Mediocre plot, A climax with, lame amateurish cheesy fx, ruins all suspense, See more Blobbo X @Blobbo 11/23/2021 Giant eyeball scare hell out of Blobbo as young Blob. A classic of its kind. See more tom t 10/17/2021 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? See more Read all reviews
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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