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If you like to be scared, if you like to laugh, and if you like to learn a thing or two at the movies, this absolutely cannot be missed.

This is a gorgeous movie made by a gorgeous spirit.

what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

A series of gruesome decapitation murders in a remote Swiss town turn out to be the grisly handiwork of hideous alien monsters. Director Quentin Lawrence not only keeps the enjoyable and engrossing story at a steady pace, but also ably crafts a strong spooky gloom-doom atmosphere. Jimmy Sangster's compact script presents a neat array of interesting and engaging characters. Forrest Tucker makes for a solid and likeable take-charge hero. The lovely Janet Munro likewise impresses as fragile psychic Anne. Moreover, there are sound contributions from Laurence Payne as stalwart reporter Philip Truscott, Jennifer Jayne as the concerned Sarah Pilgrim, Warren Mitchell as jolly scientist Crevett, Andrew Faulds as the rugged Brett, and Stuart Saunders as the hearty Dewhurst. The tentacled eyeball monsters are pretty creepy looking. Both Stanley Black's robust score and Monty Berman's crisp cinematography are up to par. Look fast for ubiquitous British bit player Reg Thomason as a rescue worker. A fun little flick.

In the 1950s and 1960s, if you were a British movie company, you stayed away from "genre" movies like this unless you had the resources and deep pockets of a company like Hammer Films. If you want to know why, just watch this very low budget British genre production. Being done on a shoestring, it is a really cheap-looking effort, with ample stock footage as well as flimsy sets and special effects. Actually, it's kind of hard to criticize the special effects because there simply aren't any on display for the bulk of the running time. The movie instead goes the route that one British actor labelled as "illustrated radio", with endless talk that is boring. It takes forever for the title creature to make an appearance, and while there is some unintentional amusement to see its rampage when it finally appears, the laughs are too little and too late to save the movie. Watch a Hammer movie instead if you want to see some old school British horror.

A series of decapitations on a Swiss mountainside appear to be connected to a mysterious radioactive cloud, not unlike one that appeared in the Andes years earlier.Although one of the earliest films to be lampooned on "Mystery Science Theater 3000", there is no denying the growing reputation this movie has received over the years: not only was it referenced in Stephen King's "It", but was also the primary influence behind John Carpenter's minimalist masterpiece "The Fog" (which itself has gone on to influence others)."Crawling Eye" was the debut feature for director Quentin Lawrence, and probably remains his best-known work. Writer Jimmy Sangster (adapting the work of Peter Key) had only been working a few years, but was a rising star with such Hammer classics as "Dracula" and "Curse of Frankenstein" under his belt. Here he crafts a tale of science gone wrong mixed with the living dead, and done to perfection.Most interestingly, shortly before the film was released, Lawrence directed a 6-part television miniseries with Key writing the episodes. Today, no copies are thought to exist, and there is no way to know what changes were made for the big screen, as well as what cuts had to be administered to accommodate the shorter running time.Leading the cast is Forrest Tucker as United Nations troubleshooter Alan Brooks. Tucker had been in nearly 100 films during the 1940s and 50s, and easily handles his role here as the hero -- part action star, part scientific genius. He is assisted by Warren Mitchell as a caricatured Swiss professor (a portrayal which provides the film's only comic relief).The standout performance comes from Janet Munro as a semi-psychic young woman who goes into trances when she nears the cloud. One gets the impression that she had a bright career before her, and indeed was given a Golden Globe in 1960. Sadly, she passed unexpectedly at age 38.Today's audiences might find some of the special effects cheesy. Obviously the crew used miniature sets and plenty of rear projection. But in general, there is no denying the impressive use of fog, the freezing effects and the creepy realism of the titular eye. While other 1950s films were busy using radiation as a plot device for large bugs, this one went in a completely different direction -- possibly the only film of its kind.Notably, "Crawling Eye" was the final film to be produced by Southall Studios, one of the earliest pioneer film studios in the UK, which had made a steady stream of films since 1924. They went out on a high note, which is always nice.

The Crawling Eye, more commonly known as the Trollenberg Terror is a good movie for it's time.It has all the cheesy elements for a horror movie of the 60's era. Although I have to admit that I found the acting not as bad as in other movies. The effects on the creatures were also quite good, considering the time.The scientific explanations that are ALWAYS present in a movie like this were THIS time slightly better to swallow.Music was a bit over-dramatic, but that's part of the charm.A movie with a slow story, building towards an unavoidable climax. I've seen far worse stories in horror movies such as these.In conclusion, I was entertained. The Trollenberg Terror is not a bad movie, nor is it outstanding. It certainly belongs amongst the classic black-and-white horror movies.Recommended for fans of horror movies from the 60's.