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| THE TROLLENBERG TERROR aka THE CRAWLING EYE Year: 1958 Rating: **** |
The originally-titled British horror THE TROLLENBERG TERROR changing into THE CRAWLING EYE is a matter of b-movie peer pressure, morphing a genuinely effective, deliberately slow-paced and mostly character-driven thriller into the kind of campy fare that never really had a chance...
The central character is imported American actor Forrest Tucker, who had just come off another British-made snowbound venture (by Hammer Studios) THE ABOMINABLE SNOWMAN... and TERROR is equally smart and cerebral, featuring scream-queen Janet Munro as a young lady with telepathic powers, who... before honing in on the impending danger at hand... was a kind of novelty act with perfectly-cast older sister Jennifer Jayne, both lovely brunettes with full lips and looking very much related...
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| Janet Munro in The Trollenberg Terror aka The Crawling Eye |
The movie cuts from several locations: the hotel where all the characters... including token scientist Warren Mitchell and handsome British co-lead journalist Laurence Payne curbed by possessed human-antagonist Andrew Faulds... busily inhabit; an adjoined observatory where much of gooey eyeball creature battles take place; and various detours into the snowy mountainous region as the body-count builds in a spooky, intense manner...
Overall TROLLENBERG belongs to Munro, whose intense vulnerability makes her a sublime starlet while Tucker's performance is surprisingly subdued while Jayne looks lovely and emotional: learning along with the audience exactly what they're up against, equally balancing expository scientific dialogue and effective bursts of intense action.
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| Janet Munro & Jennifer Jayne in THE TROLLENBERG TERROR aka THE CRAWLING EYE |
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| Janet Munro in The Trollenberg Terror aka The Crawling Eye |
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| Janet Munro in The Trollenberg Terror aka The Crawling Eye |
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| Jennifer Jayne in The Trollenberg Terror aka The Crawling Eye |
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| Janet Munro in The Trollenberg Terror aka The Crawling Eye |
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Jennifer Janye in The Trollenberg Terror aka The Crawling Eye with Warren Mitchell
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| Jennifer Jayne and Warren Mitchell in The Trollenberg Terror aka The Crawling Eye |
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| Janet Munro and Jennifer Jayne in The Trollenberg Terror aka The Crawling Eye |
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| Warren Mitchell and Jennifer Jayne in The Trollenberg Terror aka The Crawling Eye |
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| Janet Munro and Jennifer Jayne in The Trollenberg Terror aka The Crawling Eye |
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| Exterior from The Trollenberg Terror aka The Crawling Eye |
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| Janet Munro in The Trollenberg Terror aka The Crawling Eye |
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| Janet Munro in The Trollenberg Terror aka The Crawling Eye |
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| Janet Munro in The Trollenberg Terror aka The Crawling Eye |
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| Janet Munro in The Trollenberg Terror aka The Crawling Eye |
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| Janet Munro in The Trollenberg Terror aka The Crawling Eye |
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| Jennifer Jayne in The Trollenberg Terror aka The Crawling Eye |
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| Janet Munro in The Trollenberg Terror aka The Crawling Eye |
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| Warren Mitchell, Laurence Payne & Forrest Tucker in The Trollenberg Terror aka The Crawling Eye |
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| Jennifer Jayne in The Trollenberg Terror aka The Crawling Eye |
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| Andrew Faulds and Forrest Tucker in The Trollenberg Terror aka The Crawling Eye |
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| Jennifer Jayne in The Trollenberg Terror aka The Crawling Eye |
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| Andrew Faulds in The Trollenberg Terror aka The Crawling Eye |
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| Janet Munro, Warren Mitchell and Jennifer Jayne in The Trollenberg Terror aka The Crawling Eye |
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| Forrest Tucker in The Trollenberg Terror aka The Crawling Eye |
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| The Crawling Eye in The Trollenberg Terror aka The Crawling Eye |
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| Forrest Tucker in The Trollenberg Terror aka The Crawling Eye |
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| Jennifer Jayne in The Trollenberg Terror aka The Crawling Eye |
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| The Crawling Eye in The Trollenberg Terror aka The Crawling Eye |
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| The Crawling Eye in The Trollenberg Terror aka The Crawling Eye |
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| Laurence Payne, Forrest Tucker & Warren Mitchell in The Trollenberg Terror aka The Crawling Eye |
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| Janet Munro and Jennifer Jayne in The Trollenberg Terror aka The Crawling Eye |
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| Titles from The Trollenberg Terror aka The Crawling Eye |
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| The real title of The Crawling Eye is THE TROLLENBERG TERROR |
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| Janet Munro and Jennifer Jayne in The Trollenberg Terror aka The Crawling Eye |
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