The Trollenberg Terror

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The Trollenberg Terror
1958 USA movie poster
Directed by	Quentin Lawrence
Produced by	Robert S. Baker Monty Berman
Written by	Jimmy Sangster from a story by Peter Key
Starring	Forrest Tucker Laurence Payne Jennifer Jayne Janet Munro
Music by	Stanley Black
Cinematography	Monty Berman
Distributed by	Eros Films Ltd.
Release date(s)	October 7, 1958 December 31, 1958
Running time	84 min.
Country	UK
Language	English
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The Trollenberg Terror is the title of both a 1956 "Saturday Serial" ITV television program and a better-known 1958 black and white science fiction film. The latter is also known as The Crawling Eye (USA release from Distributors Corporation of America), Creature from Another World, The Creeping Eye, and The Flying Eye. Both versions are directed by Quentin Lawrence and feature Laurence Payne as journalist Philip Truscott, who investigates unusual accidents occurring at a Swiss resort. The film also stars Forrest Tucker as United Nations troubleshooter Alan Brooks. Peter Key wrote the story for the serial, and Jimmy Sangster scripted the film version based on Keys's story. This was the final film to be produced by Southall Studios, one of the earliest pioneer film studios in the UK.

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A remote mountain resort in Switzerland is invaded by horrible alien creatures which inhabit a radioactive cloud at the peak of the Trollenberg mountain.

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Under the title The Crawling Eye, this film was the first of many films mocked on the nationally-televised version of TV series Mystery Science Theater 3000. It was also briefly heard as the closing film being watched by Mike Nelson and the Bots in the final "host" segment, as a kind of "return-to-the-beginning" homage that closed the series.
Also under this title it was viewed by the protagonists of the Stephen King novel It. The creature itself plays a part in the novel.
The film was spoofed in an episode of the Steven Spielberg-produced cult animated series Freakazoid!.
The song "The Crawling Eye" by horror punk band the Misfits was a homage to the film.