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The Crawling Eye (The Trollenberg Terror) (1958)

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Release Date: Dec 31, 1958 Wide

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The Trollenberg Terror, authored by Peter Key and directed by Quentin Lawrence, started life on British television as a six-part installment of ITV's Saturday Serial in late 1956 and early 1957. The big-screen version, was adapted by Jimmy Sangster, who compressed most of the best horrific and mystery elements of the original into an under-90-minute vehicle, which Lawrence directed. At a remote Alpine village, mountaineers suddenly start dying, their bodies horribly multilated -- at first, these

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

March 21, 2011 Full Review Source: SFX Magazine
SFX Magazine

Image Entertainment's DVD release ... maintains Image's reputation for quality presentations. This is nothing less than the original "Widescreen European Edition" that debuted in England ... with an 'X' rating certificate....

April 4, 2006 Full Review Source: DVDJournal.com
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.

April 4, 2006 Full Review Source: DVDJournal.com
DVDJournal.com

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

October 19, 2004

Perhaps "fun kitsch nostalgia" bad - but nowhere near good.

July 25, 2002
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The Crawling Eye may be a good film to see on late night cable TV while you are hoisting a few at the bar.

January 1, 2000 Full Review Source: Ozus' World Movie Reviews
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Audience Reviews for The Crawling Eye (The Trollenberg Terror)

There's not much you can do when crazy eye aliens attack I guess, but the whole story is kinda stupid. It could have been better.
September 5, 2010
ajv2688

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A fun B-movie with a fantastic monster! The idea has been ripped off quite a few times but never really improved. The decapitations are top!
October 1, 2009
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