The Crawling Eye

If you were to see a picture of the monster from The Crawling Eye you would, like most people, probably assume that it was just another laughably low rent sci-fi/horror flick from the 1950s. It's a shame that The Crawling Eye (aka The Trollenberg Terror) has such a poor reputation because it's actually a decent film, for the most part. It's true that the titular monster looks pretty shitty, but the section of the movie that comes before the monster's appearance (roughly two thirds of the film's running time) is quite good. They must have known that the monster looked terrible because they spent most of the movie building up the suspense and laying out all the pieces before coming to the inevitable man vs. monster conclusion. But if you like mountain climbing, cable cars, psychics, decapitations, creepy fog, observatories, Molotov cocktails and negligent European parents then The Crawling Eye is just the film for you.

Rating: Not as bad as MST3K would have you believe%

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