Now, I had never actually heard about this 1958 sci-fi horror movie titled "The Trollenberg Terror" (aka "The Crawling Eye") before stumbling upon it here in 2023. And given my life-long romance with the horror genre, of course I opted to sit down and watch the mvoie.
However, I have to admit that I wasn't exactly harboring much of any grand expectations to the movie, given its age and all. But still, writers Jimmy Sangster and Peter Key got the benefit of the doubt.
"The Trollenberg Terror" was watchable, for sure. However, it wasn't a particularly outstanding movie experience. Especially since it took director Quentin Lawrence 66 minutes before getting to anything exciting. The movie was a massive build-up over the first 66 minutes, and then you had a somewhat bland culmination that was supposed to be a climax. It might have been a rather disturbing tale back in 1958, but not overly much so in 2023.
Needless to say that I wasn't familiar with the cast ensemble in "The Trollenberg Terror". However, the acting performances in the movie were fairly adequate.
Visually then "The Trollenberg Terror" wasn't too shabby. Sure, take into consideration that the movie was made in 1958 and is in black and white. But the creatures weren't actually all that bad. Just a shame that you had to wait 66 minutes before getting to the good stuff.
I can now tick "The Trollenberg Terror" off of the watched-movies-list. However, I can honestly say that it is not a movie that I will ever pick up and watch a second time.
My rating of "The Trollenberg Terror" lands on a four out of ten stars.
However, I have to admit that I wasn't exactly harboring much of any grand expectations to the movie, given its age and all. But still, writers Jimmy Sangster and Peter Key got the benefit of the doubt.
"The Trollenberg Terror" was watchable, for sure. However, it wasn't a particularly outstanding movie experience. Especially since it took director Quentin Lawrence 66 minutes before getting to anything exciting. The movie was a massive build-up over the first 66 minutes, and then you had a somewhat bland culmination that was supposed to be a climax. It might have been a rather disturbing tale back in 1958, but not overly much so in 2023.
Needless to say that I wasn't familiar with the cast ensemble in "The Trollenberg Terror". However, the acting performances in the movie were fairly adequate.
Visually then "The Trollenberg Terror" wasn't too shabby. Sure, take into consideration that the movie was made in 1958 and is in black and white. But the creatures weren't actually all that bad. Just a shame that you had to wait 66 minutes before getting to the good stuff.
I can now tick "The Trollenberg Terror" off of the watched-movies-list. However, I can honestly say that it is not a movie that I will ever pick up and watch a second time.
My rating of "The Trollenberg Terror" lands on a four out of ten stars.