7/10
Sci-Fi suspenser including creepy scenes and crammed with traditional but effective special effects
9 February 2021
A Swiss peak is engulfed in fog , leaving UN scientific Forrest Tucker a furrowed brow. While , there occurs unexplained and gruesome deaths with decapitations among mountaineers of the Trollenberg and are investigated by Tucker . Along the way two tourist sisters : Janet Munro, Jennifer Jayne , stay at a hotel and one of them has telepathic powers. Hidden in a radioactive fog on a mountaintop , the crawling eye kills his victims and returns these humans to Earth to threaten mankind . If you have ever been hypnotized, do not come alone !. A man dissolves .. and out of the oozing mist comes the hungry eye , slave to the demon brain! . The nightmare terror of the slithering eye that unleashed agonizing horror on a screaming World! It's looking for you ! .

A frightening and terrifying tale adapted from Peter Key's school of Doctor Quatermass serial . Based on a TV Series 1956 formed by six episodes starred by Sarah Lawson , Ronan O'Casey , Michael Anthony and Laurence Payne , the same director Quentin Lawrence made this film version of this called The Crawling Eye or The Trallenbeg Terror in 1958 . Thrilling and eerie film , more to the point , the scary extraterrestrian monster in Ray Harryhausen style attacks unfortunate climbers and skiers by beheading them . This is a short budget B movie , a tribute producers Robert S Baker and Monty Norman and their skillness for going the extra mile in resourceful invention and their knack for providing in low budget some decent special effects . As the presence of a weird force , a fantastic visitor explains it all and prompting resulting in the spectaculal final climax with primitive but decent FX.

The motion picture was professionally directed by Quentin Lawrence . He was a craftsman who produced and directed several TV episodes of notorious series (Suspense, Invisible Man, Guillermo Tell, Web, The Voodoo Factor , The Avengers ,Albert and Victoria , Trapped , The Baron, Crown Court, Village Hall, Sam) and occassionally directing films (The Trollenberg Terror , A month in the Country, We Shall see , Playback , Cash on demand, The Secret of Blood Island). Rating 6/10 . Passable and acceptable terror Sci-Fi movie .
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