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1958 film by Quentin Lawrence

The Trollenberg Terror (U. S. title: The Crawling Eye; also known as Creatures from Another World ) is a 1958 British science fiction horror film produced by Robert S. Baker and Monty Berman and directed by Quentin Lawrence. The film stars Forrest Tucker, Laurence Payne, Janet Munro and Jennifer Jayne. The story is based on a 1956 British ITV "Saturday Serial" television programme written by George F. Kerr, Jack Cross and Giles Cooper under the collective pseudonym of "Peter Key". The film was released as The Crawling Eye in the United States on 7 July 1958 by Distributors Corporation of America and as The Trollenberg Terror in the United Kingdom in October 1958 by Eros Films.

The Monthly Film Bulletin wrote: "Several sequences in this Alpine science fiction production are genuinely alarming, although much more could have been made of the dramatic moments. The film gives the impression of having been shot and edited in a great hurry and the characteristic addiction to close ups of such details as severed heads and melting flesh is more in evidence than in most science fiction pieces. More accomplished direction might have resulted in a film as effective as the Quatermass series." In the 1 January 1959 issue of The New York Times, film critic Richard W. Nason reviewed the double feature starring Forrest Tucker and opined that " The Crawling Eye and The Cosmic Monsters do nothing to enhance or advance the copious genre of science fiction". Film historian and critic Leonard Maltin considered The Trollenberg Terror as "ok, if predictable", a feature that showed its humble origins, being adapted by Jimmy Sangster from the British TV series (also called The Trollenberg Terror) about cloud hiding alien invaders on a Swiss mountaintop. Maltin noted that the film was "hampered by low grade special effects". The Trollenberg Terror was one of the inspirations for writer/director John Carpenter's 1980 horror film The Fog.

The main title music from The Crawling Eye was featured on the album Greatest Science Fiction Hits V by Neil Norman and his Cosmic Orchestra, released in 1979 on GNP Crescendo Records. In Stephen King's 1986 horror novel It one of the protagonists, Richie Tozier, watches the film and it terrifies him. A crawling eye creature later appears as a manifestation of It, the novel's title monster. Under the title The Crawling Eye, the film was the first of many productions to be mocked on the TV series Mystery Science Theater 3000, after the series moved from KTMA to Comedy Central. The episode aired on 11 November 1989. It was also briefly mentioned at the end of the season 10 finale (the original series finale) covering Danger: Diabolik. A scene of the film was briefly seen in the 1998 film Small Soldiers when the Gorgonites, Slamfist and Ocula are watching a wrestling match on television and one of them accidentally hits the tv remote which changes the channel showing a scene of the film’s crawling eye creature. The Freakazoid episode "The Cloud" spoofed the film's opening credits, as well as key elements of the plot, though with the victims being turned into clowns instead of being killed. A song called "Crawling Eye" was featured on American horror punk band the Misfits' 1999 album Famous Monsters; the song's lyrics directly referenced the plot of the film. The film was shown on the MeTV show Svengoolie on 26 November 2022. In the 2023 Riverdale episode "Betty & Veronica Double Digest", a 4D screening of the film is held to increase popularity of a financially struggling movie theater.