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The Trollenberg Terror, AKA The Crawling Eye (1956 serial, 1958 film)

Summary

In a small Swiss resort town, sisters Anne and Sarah Pilgrim are worried by Anne's telepathic sense, which goes haywire. Reporter Philip Truscott and U.N. worker Alan Brooks, 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.

Details

  • Release Date: 1956 (serial), 1958 (film)
  • Country/Language: UK, English
  • Genres/Technical: Science Fiction, Horror, black-and-white
  • Runtime: 1 hr 24 min
  • Starring: Forrest Tucker, Laurence Payne, Jennifer Jayne
  • Director: Quentin Lawrence
  • Writer: Peter Key and Jimmy Sangster
  • Producer/Production Co:
  • View Trailer: (link)


Ratings

MPAA Ratings

  • Rated: (none) (perhaps a "G" or a "PG" for mild off-screen violence)

Tentacle Ratings

A rough measure of how "Lovecraftian" the work is:

  • SS___ (Two Tentacles: Barely Lovecraftian; could be a very loose adaptation)


Note: This rating is not intended as a measure of quality, merely of how closely related to Lovecraftian "Weird" fiction the work is.

Reviews

Review Links:

  • BrainEater dotcom, (link) - "In spite of the movie's many idiocies, I still find that a lot of it succeeds, if only because of its poker-faced seriousness...."


Synopsis

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In a small Swiss resort town, sisters Anne and Sarah Pilgrim are worried by Anne's telepathic sense, which goes haywire. Reporter Philip Truscott and U.N. worker Alan Brooks, 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.


Notes

Comments, Trivia, Dedication

Associated Mythos Elements


Keeper Notes