This Week's Film: The Crawling Eye (MST3K version)
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The Trollenberg Terror is the title of both a 1956 "Saturday Serial" ITV television program and a better-known 1958 black and white science fiction film. The latter is also known as The Crawling Eye (USA release from Distributors Corporation of America), Creature from Another World, The Creeping Eye, and The Flying Eye.
Both versions are directed by Quentin Lawrence and feature Laurence Payne as journalist Philip Truscott, who investigates unusual accidents occurring at a Swiss resort. The film also stars Forrest Tucker as United Nations troubleshooter Alan Brooks. Peter Key wrote the story for the serial, and Jimmy Sangster scripted the film version based on Keys's story. This was the final film to be produced by Southall Studios, one of the earliest pioneer film studios in the UK.
Under the title The Crawling Eye, the film was among the first of many movies to be mocked on the TV series Mystery Science Theater 3000. It was also briefly mentioned at the end of the final episode of the show.
An episode of Freakazoid spoofs the opening credits of the film, as well as key elements of the plot (though with victims being turned into clowns instead of being killed). The film is mentioned in Stephen King's 1986 horror novel It as having been watched by one of its protagonists, and the Crawling Eye itself later appears as a manifestation of the novel's title monster.
A song called "Crawling Eye" is featured on American horror punk band The Misfits' 1999 album, Famous Monsters. The song's lyrics directly reference the plot of the film.
A remote mountain resort in Switzerland is invaded by horrible alien creatures which inhabit a radioactive cloud at the peak of the Trollenberg mountain.
The film’s running time is 84 minutes.
