The Crawling Eye (Widescreen European Edition) | Forrest Tucker, Laurence Payne

The Crawling Eye (Widescreen European Edition) | Forrest Tucker, Laurence Payne | I've looked at clouds from both sides now

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	The Crawling Eye (Widescreen European Edition) Forrest Tucker, Laurence Payne Image Entertainment, 2001 average customer review:based on 69 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

The Eyes have it

Oh this is a good one indeed. I remember the star of the movie as the Marine Corporal from John Wayne's "Sands of Iwo Jima".

The story is about mountain climbers who keep getting decapitated while mountain climbing in the Alps. All scientists can figure out is that there is a strange radioactive cloud on the mountain that never moves (unless it's going in for the kill). Also there's a young and pretty psychic girl who fits in somehow.

It takes a while for the aliens to actually appear, around 3/4 into the movie, but they are worth the wait. They are huge eyeballs with killer tentacles that grab, choke, and of course decapitate.

The climax of the movie is when the villagers seek refuge in the mountain observatory. There they fight the monsters with molotov cocktails of all things. It seems the aliens do not like heat. The best scene is a greta blooper. A guy gets picked up by a tentacle and is about to be killed by an alien. A molotov cocktail is thrown by our hero at the alien in order to save the poor guy's life. Watch closely as the bottle actually bounces off the guy's head then bursts into flames as it hits the alien. Now that's good cinema!

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I've looked at clouds from both sides now

This movie is based on a British TV series The Trollenberg Terror.

A mysterious cloud is occupying the mountain. People are mysteriously disappearing or at least their heads are detaching. Alan Brooks (Forest Tucker) has seen this happen before and is familiar with the phenomenon so he is sent to investigate. Also Sarah Pilgrim (Jennifer Jayne) a psychic in a sister act is compelled to go there; if you do not keep your EYE on her she has a tendency to wander off in a trance.

There is something funny about one of the disappearing villagers that suddenly returns.

It looks like the only hope for the town's people is to head for the lab at the top of the sky lift as it has thick concrete walls. The lab is equipped the standard 50's SCI/FI equipment. Yet your future is cloudy (radioactive cloudy). When confronted by a mysterious eye will you freeze in your tracks or do you have a tentacle to be lifted by the experience.

Do not watch this movie if you are in a cabin.

The Abominable Snowman

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The Crawling Eye

This one I enjoy during a cold snowy night here in the mountains. This movie sits right next to The Amominable Snowman in my never ending collection of the best horror movies ever made. This black and white feature shot in part in the Alp's will delight your fright buds. WORTH EVERY PENNEY. Count Wolfenstein

His head! It was... torn off!

There's a radioactive cloud, a mutation (great, great big crawling eyes), an isolated Swiss village named Trollenberg, a dyad of diverting cuties (Jennifer Jayne and Janet Munro as the Pilgrim sisters), and Forrest Tucker. Mountain climbers are experiencing the weird and mysterious in and around the radioactive cloud that clings - "It's not moving, Alan!" - to the western face of the mountaintop and the alarmed scientist (Warren Mitchell) in his state-of-the-art aerie laboratory - there are two television cameras on the roof! - is worried. Remember the Andes Incident, Alan...?
The cover art on the dvd jacket kept me from opening this one for about three months. Radioactive mutations may have been all the rage in the `50s - THE CRAWLING EYE, a.k.a. THE TROLLENBERG TERROR, was made in 1958 - but I'm not much of a fan of the genre. I expected to loathe this one, or maybe, if I was lucky, it would be mildly amusing.
So it was with a great deal of surprise that I found myself caught up in this story. I enjoyed it quite a bit. The script contained real tension and the situations weren't nearly as absurd as I feared they'd be. Even the special effects, though primitive, were relatively effective. Especially the first on-screen appearance of the eye - although later, during the `March of the Crawling Eyes' sequence the tattiness of the special effects unfortunately imposes itself.
Forrest Tucker plays Alan Brooks, a man with vague ties to the investigative arm of the United Nations. Janet Munro is Anne Pilgrim, a stage psychic with a seeming ability to communicate with whatever is contained within that radioactive cloud. There are assorted other interesting characters - the scientist in his fortress laboratory, a town full of frightened villagers, and enough foolhardy mountain climbers who scoff at danger and, if they don't find themselves with their heads ripped off at the roots, return with a weird and wild look, a lose of depth perception and an inability to tolerate a warm room.
THE CRAWLING EYE is one of those rare movies that should entertain the whole family. Don't let the opening title card announcing the production company - Eros Films and the Censor Board's title - Approved for audiences, no child under 16 allowed - concern you. No obscenities are uttered, no clothes are removed, and no unseemly act of violence is committed.
The dvd comes with a two-page booklet with a bit of information on the film, a dark, blurry and scratched original trailer and 3- count `em 3- stills, which look like simple screen capture shots. The transfer print is in very good condition. Solid entertainment.

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Eye like it anyway

Much is made of the "quality" of the creatures in this movie, but when I saw it as a kid I gotta confess, I LIKED the eye creatures! That image stayed with me for (ahem) years... Seeing it more recently, I think the main problem in terms of effects, is not necessarily the design of those unblinking beasties, but more the look of the miniatures, particularly the fire. You know, where it looks like someone's kid threw a match onto the landscaping of their Father's train set?... Be that as it may, I still have fun with this movie, as I think most weirdo's who love 50's sci-fi will...

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