The Crawling Eye Movie Review

Quatermass-like sci-fi with Forrest Tucker as a UN science investigator visiting the Swiss town of Trollenberg, where a strange radioactive cloud hovers on a mountaintop. As the cloud descends and encloses the village, several climbers are discovered decapitated. Tucker teams up with two sisters, one of them a telepath (Janet Munro) who can communicate with aliens, which is very lucky because that darn cloud is chock-full of them. The ensuing battle provides plenty of tension, even tough the effects are so-so at best, and the acting, at most, adequate. At least the aliens themselves don't disappoint with their huge Cyclopean-eyeball-tentacled-creaturoid good looks, and once again a low-budget film is directed and photographed with atmosphere to spare. Adapted by writer Jimmy Sangster from the BBC teleserial by Peter Key. AKA: The Trollenberg Terror; The Creature from Another World.

1958 87m/B GB Forrest Tucker, Laurence Payne, Janet Munro, Jennifer Jayne, Warren Mitchell; D: Quentin Lawrence; W: Jimmy Sangster; M: Stanley Black. VHS, Beta, LV SNC, MRV, MED