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This is a classic B&W horror movie based on the serialized Trollenberg Terror story on the BBC. The solid cast is anchored by the great Forrest Tucker in one of his more memorable roles. The effects aren’t stellar, but not terrible for their time either. This movie was a major influence on John Carpenter’s The Fog. Great value for the current going rate!
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No one will ever compare this movie to Blade Runner, or other newer science fiction movie. And certainly not to The Thing! The movie starts with a pair of mountain climbers who encounter an entity as they near the top of the peak. Something very strange is going on this mountain and it brings together the usual odd lot of people including scientists who want to know what exactly what is happening. While it takes a while for the "crawling eye" to be seen, the movie still keeps you entertained to the end.
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"The Crawling Eye," which might as well be entitled: "The Crawling Storyline," was standard tedious and cheesy fifties Sci Fi schlock. The acting was flat and episodic and everyone seemed to be unbelievably responsive to the orders and directives of Forrest Tucker, in his lead role of Crawling Eye Expert. Close- ups of screaming, sagging, imminent victims took the place of any real suspense and the special effects looked like elements from the same toy box that housed LambChops and Howdy Doody, except that Lambie and Howdy were interesting and had a focal point. Jittering giant eyeballs with tentacles as threatening as spilling a drop or two of milk on your lunchtable, combined to make this less of a Horrorfest and more of a Ho-Hum-O-Rama. I got a kick out of the girl in the role of seer (Janet Munro) who appeared constantly to be psychically tuned into a UHF channel from the Twilight Zone, interspersed with "let's-go-get-a soda" giddiness and girlishness that was more appropriate to "Tammy and the Doctor." Her sister wore off-the-shoulder, decolletee dressy-dresses in every scene and they were almost distracting enough to keep you from realizing that she must have been overdosed on Thorazine for the part, as her face never achieved expression of any sort, until, of course, the bouncy eyeball broke through the foot-thick walls of the scientific lab-cum-fortress against space aliens - able to withstand even direct strikes from 500 puond bombs obligingly dropped by jet pilots, who again seemed to answer to the omniscient and wise Forrest Tucker. I played The Bubble Game on my cell phone through the entire movie, which I think lasted three weeks, but then I didn't check my watch. If you have an upcoming opportunity to watch either "The Crawling Eye" or to observe grass growing, choose the latter.Read full review
Many who see this film might compare it's special effects against today's standards, and that would be a mistake. Having viewed The Crawling Eye (The Trollenberg Terror) as a youngster and at a time when production values were the norm, I can tell you that this is a fun movie, and a guilty pleasure. The word 'CLASSIC' is overused so I won't attach it here, but this film very closely echoes the sci-fi genre of the 50's. The monsters are hokey, but original and the story, very early on, ties them to two elements that the American public of that time were nervous about: radiation and outer space. The writing is average, but the pacing and acting do a fine job of building the suspense and drama. The sets are unimaginative, but provide a basic setting for the actors to do a credible job. And the writing keeps the individual actors in character, something I've noticed fall by the wayside in some current films. Overall, I'd recommend The Crawling Eye as a fun night of entertainment for two reasons: it's inexpensive (I paid less than $5.00 for my copy), and a story about invaders from outer space is always cool! The film also serves as a time capsule for that period of monster movies from Hollywood. If you like The Mole People or The Horror of Party Beach, take a look at The Crawling Eye.Read full review
The crawling eye...wasn't i so scared of it as a kid? the million dollar movie would run it for about a week without any mercy. if u were afraid, u wd sure get used to it by the end of the wk...as it is now, 2008, the movie looked ever bright, in its black and white drab, i couldn't keep my eyes off of it. the little girl with the crawling eye's deadly tentacles bracing her, and the heroism involved in the (forrest tucker) protagonist, as he merely swishes the cords off her, but not before his aborting an awaiting tram to take him to safety... Science labs in the swiss alps, based on a Trollenberg Terror script, what more cd u ask 4? Go back and relive the past. this horror is still a gas, ugly bugged out eye monster and not to mention the ugliness rendered by an innocent climber after being used telepathetically by the cloud monster with the eye. hurry.Read full review
