The Trollenberg Terror (1958)

Director:

Quentin Lawrence

Writers:

Peter Key (story)
Jimmy Sangster (writer)

Release Date:

31 December 1958 (USA)

Genre:

Horror | Sci-Fi

Tagline:

A man dissolves...and out of the oozing mist comes the hungry eye, slave to the demon brain!

Plot:

A remote mountain resort in Switzerland is invaded by horrible alien creatures that like to decapitate humans...

Plot Keywords:

Mountain | Radioactive | Alien | Cloud | Window

Cast

Forrest Tucker	...	Alan Brooks
Laurence Payne	...	Philip Truscott
Jennifer Jayne	...	Sarah Pilgrim
Janet Munro	...	Anne Pilgrim
Warren Mitchell	...	Prof. Crevett
Frederick Schiller	...	Mayor Klein
Andrew Faulds	...	Brett
Stuart Saunders	...	Dewhurst
Colin Douglas	...	Hans
Derek Sydney	...	Wilde
Richard Golding	...	First Villager
George Herbert	...	Second Villager
Anne Sharp	...	German Woman with Little Girl
Leslie Heritage	...	Carl
Jeremy Longhurst	...	First Student Climber

Also Known As:

Creature from Another World
The Crawling Eye (USA)
The Creeping Eye
The Flying Eye
Trollenberg Horror (UK) (alternative title)

Runtime:

Germany:82 min | USA:84 min

Country:

UK

Language:

English

Color:

Black and White

Aspect Ratio:

1.66 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono | Mono (RCA Sound Recording)

Certification:

UK:A (original rating) | UK:PG (re-rating) (2006) | USA:Unrated | West Germany:18 | Sweden:15

Filming Locations:

Southall Studios, Southall, Middlesex, England, UK

Company:

Tempean Films

Trivia:

It had been a TV serial before becoming a film, Laurence Payne and Stuart Saunders reprise their roles from the serial.

Goofs:

Continuity: In the train scene early on Forrest Tucker is reading a fresh, crisp, unwrinkled newspaper when Janet Munro has one of her bad spells and falls in his lap. As she falls, Tucker's newspaper looks like it has gone through a few takes already.

Quotes:

Alan Brooks: Looks like you're goin' for a climb.
Dewhurst: Yes, we're going up the Trollenberg. Gonna have a noggin before we start. Care to join us?
Alan Brooks: All right.
Dewhurst: What's it goin' to be?
Alan Brooks: Scotch, please.
Dewhurst: Scotch and the two brandies. Better give me a bottle of brandy to take with us. Keep the cold out tonight.

Movie Connections:

Featured in "Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Crawling Eye (#2.1)" (1989)

Great movie, bad eyeball

A well directed film that really gives you the creeps - until the end, when the special effects give you a cramp from laughing. Two scenes stand out as exceptional. An alien-possessed climber returns to the lodge and tries to act human, without success. It could be slapstick but is quite chilling. After the lodge is evacuated, there is a very long, slow pan of the empty room which is extraordinarily eerie. The dramatic appearance of the actual crawling eyes at the end of the film really outcamps most other campy special effects in this genre. This film should not be missed by anyone who loves great terrible films.