John Chard
The Crawling Eye.
The filmic adaptation of a 1956 UK TV serial of the same name, The Trollenberg Terror is a whole bunch of fun and not deserving of the stinker reputation it has in some sci-fi loving circles.
Action is set in Trollenberg, Switzerland and concerns a creature from outer space that has taken residence in a radioactive cloud atop of the Trollenberg mountain. As the bodies start to pile up and various climbers go missing on the mountain, the United Nations send a boffin to help the local scientists to hopefully solve the mystery.
The effects work has been the source of some disdain, and in truth its poor but not the worst from the 1950s pantheon of B schlockers. The back projection scenes are crude, but again in keepin...