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The Crawling Eye

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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 Mar 21, 2011
Although hampered by a low budget and some laughable model work, The Trollenberg Terror certainly has its moments. Go to Full Review
Mark Bourne DVDJournal.com Apr 4, 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. Go to Full Review
Linda Cook Quad City Times (Davenport, IA) Aug 7, 2005
3/5
Steve Crum Kansas City Kansan Oct 19, 2004
1/5
Arctic build-up to laughable eye finale is overall time waster Go to Full Review
Tony Toscano Talking Pictures (U.S.) Feb 6, 2003
3/5
Nicolas Lacroix Showbizz.net Jan 18, 2003
3/5
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Robert P @Superbad 1 day ago The Crawling Eye = a *2* star Movie! See more Stephen C @bob25009 Oct 30, 2025 Success in 1 hour and 24 minutes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Dubbed and subtitled in worldwide studios!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Filmed in color and black and white versions!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! See more Ted B @Movieaddicted Dec 2, 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. See more Dallas H @RT53171010 Oct 9, 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. See more CodyZamboni Z @CodyZamboni Apr 26, 2023 Surprisingly violent for its' time, Attractive female cast, Mediocre plot, A climax with, lame amateurish cheesy fx, ruins all suspense, See more Blobbo X @Blobbo Nov 23, 2021 Giant eyeball scare hell out of Blobbo as young Blob. A classic of its kind. See more Read all reviews
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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
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