5/10
Cloud Cover
7 December 2011
Even with some holes in the plot the Queen Mary could have floated through, The Crawling Eye remains a favorite of mine from my adolescence. It's literally filled with atmosphere and it's atmosphere that these nasty eye creatures from some other world are trying to recreate.

Wherever these things come from it's real cold so they say on mountain tops. Why this wasn't set in the Himalayas is anyone's guess.

They were first reported in the Andes mountains and scientist Forrest Tucker was investigating there too. Now they're in the Swiss Alps and Tucker has responded to a call for help. So has Laurence Payne who is a reporter and smells a story first in the Andes and now in Switzerland.

These creatures apparently don't like telepaths, one was killed in Argentina and they've taken an interest in young Janet Munro who has a mind reading nightclub act with her sister Jennifer Jayne. It's Munro whom they're after and they take their below freezing cloud cover atmosphere with them to get her any way they can.

Lots of holes in this plot including a locked door murder which might have needed the help of Agatha Christie to get right. But for atmosphere and chilling thrills you can't beat The Crawling Eye.
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