The Crawling Eye

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The Crawling Eye

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

03/21/2011

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

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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.

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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

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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!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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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.

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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.

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CodyZamboni Z

@CodyZamboni 04/26/2023

Surprisingly violent for its' time, Attractive female cast, Mediocre plot, A climax with, lame amateurish cheesy fx, ruins all suspense,

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Blobbo X

@Blobbo 11/23/2021

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

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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?

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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