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:

John Carpenter has said that this film, with its creatures hidden in the clouds, was the inspiration for his film The Fog (1980).

Goofs:

Continuity: As Forrest Tucker is talking on the wall phone, the watch on his left wrist appears and disappears throughout the scene.

Quotes:

Philip Truscott: Keep an eye on your roping, won't you.
Brett: Why roping, particularly?
Philip Truscott: Uh, student business last week.
Dewhurst: That's right. Nasty business. Very nasty.

Movie Connections:

Featured in "Svengoolie: The Crawling Eye" (2004)

Good Drive In Movie

I kind of liked this movie for all of it's B movie glory. It's a great 50s sci-fi movie. It's a little boring but I thought the monster was pretty good. A great late night or after noon viewing, not even all that scary. Good solid drive in movie or the kind of movie that you would watch on TV late at night. I laughed at various points during the movie but they did a pretty good job with the monster. Even though, it's kind of boring, it's good to watch if you like schlock movies from the 50s like I do. I wish it had been a little more entertaining and scary. But I do have affection for the movies of this period. You can tell that they were trying to keep the cost down. The acting was okay, what you would expect to find in these types of movies. All around fun and excitement for a lazy afternoon.