The Trollenberg Terror (1958)
(The Crawling Eye)
Country: GB
Technical: bw 84m
Director: Quentin Lawrence
Cast: Forrest Tucker, Laurence Payne, Janet Munro
Synopsis:
As aliens colonize a cloud on a Swiss mountain, and climbers begin to lose their heads, scientists puzzle over the provenance of this extraordinary phenomenon.
Review:
Enjoyably cheap and silly science fiction, with monsters like one-eyed octopuses endowed with vines instead of tentacles. The twopenny production relies on miniatures and transparencies, and the most effective sequences are those where the zombie-like victims of telepathic control are sent back to kill Janet Munro in varyingly gruesome fashion. There is a gratifying lack of romantic interest, with cool-headed scientist Tucker more involved in his work, and Warren Mitchell demonstrates his considerable character acting skill as a wholly convincing German colleague.
(The Crawling Eye)
Country: GB
Technical: bw 84m
Director: Quentin Lawrence
Cast: Forrest Tucker, Laurence Payne, Janet Munro
Synopsis:
As aliens colonize a cloud on a Swiss mountain, and climbers begin to lose their heads, scientists puzzle over the provenance of this extraordinary phenomenon.
Review:
Enjoyably cheap and silly science fiction, with monsters like one-eyed octopuses endowed with vines instead of tentacles. The twopenny production relies on miniatures and transparencies, and the most effective sequences are those where the zombie-like victims of telepathic control are sent back to kill Janet Munro in varyingly gruesome fashion. There is a gratifying lack of romantic interest, with cool-headed scientist Tucker more involved in his work, and Warren Mitchell demonstrates his considerable character acting skill as a wholly convincing German colleague.
(The Crawling Eye)
Country: GB
Technical: bw 84m
Director: Quentin Lawrence
Cast: Forrest Tucker, Laurence Payne, Janet Munro
Synopsis:
As aliens colonize a cloud on a Swiss mountain, and climbers begin to lose their heads, scientists puzzle over the provenance of this extraordinary phenomenon.
Review:
Enjoyably cheap and silly science fiction, with monsters like one-eyed octopuses endowed with vines instead of tentacles. The twopenny production relies on miniatures and transparencies, and the most effective sequences are those where the zombie-like victims of telepathic control are sent back to kill Janet Munro in varyingly gruesome fashion. There is a gratifying lack of romantic interest, with cool-headed scientist Tucker more involved in his work, and Warren Mitchell demonstrates his considerable character acting skill as a wholly convincing German colleague.