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Movie Info

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.

Genre:

sci-fi
Original Language:

English
Director:

Quentin Lawrence
Producer:

Robert S Baker, Monty Berman
Writer:

Jimmy Sangster
Release Date (Streaming):

Jan 30, 2017
Runtime:

1h 24m

Cast & Crew

Forrest Tucker
Alan Brooks

Laurence Payne
Philip Truscott

Jennifer Jayne
Sarah Pilgrim

Janet Munro
Anne Pilgrim

Warren Mitchell
Prof. Crevett

Andrew Faulds
Brett

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Critic Reviews for The Crawling Eye

All Critics (8) | Fresh (5) | Rotten (3)

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

March 21, 2011 | Full Review…

Ian Berriman
SFX Magazine
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…

Mark Bourne
DVDJournal.com
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August 7, 2005 | Rating: 3/5

Linda Cook
Quad City Times (Davenport, IA)
Arctic build-up to laughable eye finale is overall time waster

October 19, 2004 | Rating: 1/5

Steve Crum
Kansas City Kansan
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February 6, 2003 | Rating: 3/5

Tony Toscano
Talking Pictures (U.S.)
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January 18, 2003 | Rating: 3/5

Nicolas Lacroix
Showbizz.net
Perhaps "fun kitsch nostalgia" bad - but nowhere near good.

July 25, 2002 | Rating: 2/5

Scott Weinberg
eFilmCritic.com
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 | Rating: C | Full Review…

Dennis Schwartz
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Audience Reviews for The Crawling Eye

Dec 07, 2014

A group individuals arrived at a snow mountain village where the mountainers began to die from decapitation, one telepathic girl suggested that something sinister is behind the gruesome deaths and the group set to find out there is an extra terrestrial creature (the Crawling Eye) residing within the moutains and seeking to destroy the human race. It's really more of a suspense film rather than horror. All the talking was too boring to keep me engaged, even MST3K couldn't help it

Sylvester K Super Reviewer
Sep 05, 2010

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.

Aj V Super Reviewer
Aug 14, 2009

Cheesy and some laughable acting in this 1958 horror movie. I wanted to watch this more for my interest in Janet Munro, who was terrific in the early 60's sci-fi "The day the earth caught fire". She is little more than a pretty face here, with Forrest Tucker shouldering the serious performing. The rest of the cast are lightweight at best. What makes this movie interesting is this plot seems to be the inspiration for the recent movie "the Mist". Not a bad watch..just nothing special either.

alan j Super Reviewer