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The Crawling Eye

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The Crawling Eye	comment	The Crawling Eye is a 1958 British Sci-Fi Horror film directed by Quentin Lawrence, starring Forrest Tucker, Laurence Payne, Jennifer Jayne, and Janet Munro. It was adapted by screenwriter Jimmy Sangster from the 1956–57 ITV serial The Trollenberg Terror, and was originally released in the UK under that title.At the remote Alpine Swiss village of Trollenberg, someone or something is killing off mountain climbers. The culprits turn out to be an army of enormous, one-eyed, tentacled creatures from outer space, who hide themselves in a radioactive cloud. Crawling along like snails, these horrific beasts attempt to neutralize their human foes by pumping a freezing fog at them. And it helps matters not at all that some of the locals have been mentally enslaved by the monsters. It's up to American scientist Alan Brooks (Tucker) to save the day.Stephen King considered this one of the scariest of the many horror movies he saw as a kid, and the climax of It features the eye monsters, while The Mist has a very similiar premise to this movie. It was also a big part of the inspiration for John Carpenter's The Fog (1980).Also notable as the featured movie in the first Comedy Central episode of Mystery Science Theater 3000 (for that version please visit the episode recap page.) Nonetheless, it's a pretty good movie.If you feel you've seen the poster art before in a different context, that's probably because the movie The Eye Creatures shamelessly reused the art for its own poster despite its creatures looking completely different.Not related to the 2013 freeware RPG Maker game The God of Crawling Eyes.
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The Crawling Eye / int_173909	type	Brainwashed and Crazy
The Crawling Eye / int_173909	comment	Brainwashed and Crazy: A couple of the mountaineers are hypnotized to try to kill Anne.
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The Crawling Eye / int_1c5002bc	type	The Stoic
The Crawling Eye / int_1c5002bc	comment	The Stoic: Averted; everyone, including the men, react with realistic horror upon seeing the mutilated victims.
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The Crawling Eye / int_294ed981	type	Bilingual Bonus
The Crawling Eye / int_294ed981	comment	Bilingual Bonus: Some characters speak unsubtitled German at times.
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The Crawling Eye / int_31c5e7fb	type	Starfish Aliens
The Crawling Eye / int_31c5e7fb	comment	Starfish Aliens: Big veiny blobs with eyeballs and Combat Tentacles.
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The Crawling Eye / int_403b6f3	type	Fainting
The Crawling Eye / int_403b6f3	comment	Fainting: Anne does this a lot. Presumably it's due to outside influence, namely the aliens' minds being too much for her own to handle.
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The Crawling Eye / int_482c31d4	type	No Hugging, No Kissing
The Crawling Eye / int_482c31d4	comment	No Hugging, No Kissing: Probably due to the sizable age gap, there is no particular romantic tension between Brooks and either of the Pilgrim sisters.
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The Crawling Eye / int_571a3c67	type	Power Incontinence
The Crawling Eye / int_571a3c67	comment	Power Incontinence: Normally Anne seems to be able to control her psychic powers well enough, but inadvertently making contact with the aliens causes her to have uncontrollable bouts of telepathic vision that usually end in her fainting.
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The Crawling Eye / int_5f52cfcf	type	Intrepid Reporter
The Crawling Eye / int_5f52cfcf	comment	Intrepid Reporter: Philip is a newspaper reporter who's been investigating the alien phenomenon through Alan's past involvement in the aforementioned Benevolent Conspiracy.
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The Crawling Eye / int_634a768	type	Dead Man Walking
The Crawling Eye / int_634a768	comment	Dead Man Walking: If the aliens don't immediately kill someone, they'll abduct them and do something to them that converts the victim into a cold, dead but still active & lucid husk of their former self that is subservient to the aliens' will.
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The Crawling Eye / int_64070096	type	Cowardly Lion
The Crawling Eye / int_64070096	comment	Cowardly Lion: The villagers are afraid of the mountain after all of the "accidents" and other weird goings-on, but when hikers are in trouble, they don't hesitate to get out their climbing gear and head up the mountain to help.
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The Crawling Eye / int_666648a3	type	Hostile Terraforming
The Crawling Eye / int_666648a3	comment	Hostile Terraforming: The film is about aliens' native air slowly enveloping a mountain and later the surrounding area. Professor Crevett theorizes that with enough time to acclimate, they could eventually adapt to and terraform the whole planet.
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The Crawling Eye / int_69681e01	type	Big Brother Instinct
The Crawling Eye / int_69681e01	comment	Big Sister Instinct: Anne's sister wants nothing more than to get her the heck out of there.
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The Crawling Eye / int_7484b619	type	Herr Doktor
The Crawling Eye / int_7484b619	comment	Herr Doktor: Professor Crevett, the German lead scientist at the observatory. Unlike the archetypal example, he's not at all a Mad Scientist and is instead a very fun, friendly and compassionate man who spends much of his screentime trying to help.
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The Crawling Eye / int_7e6c0522	type	Off with His Head!
The Crawling Eye / int_7e6c0522	comment	Off with His Head!: The aliens' preferred method of murder, apparently for no other reason than the shock value.
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The Crawling Eye / int_826f71ed	type	Obscured Special Effects
The Crawling Eye / int_826f71ed	comment	Obscured Special Effects: For most of the movie, the aliens stay hidden in the strange cloud on the side of the mountain, although we do eventually get a good look at them.
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The Crawling Eye / int_874176be	type	Psychic Powers
The Crawling Eye / int_874176be	comment	Psychic Powers: Anne has some level of mind-reading which she uses for parlour tricks. But she also seems to have a form of clairvoyance which draws her to Trollenberg and which lets her see what the aliens are up to (although she can't detect the aliens themselves).
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The Crawling Eye / int_920ca805	type	Night of the Living Mooks
The Crawling Eye / int_920ca805	comment	Night of the Living Mooks: The aliens are able to reanimate their victims as their own operatives.
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The Crawling Eye / int_97c4763	type	The Professor
The Crawling Eye / int_97c4763	comment	The Professor: Professor Crevett, who runs the observatory.
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The Crawling Eye / int_a52faac6	type	Benevolent Conspiracy
The Crawling Eye / int_a52faac6	comment	Benevolent Conspiracy: Alan and Prof. Crevett are part of a low-level one, having limited experience with the monsters already in the backstory, though they're never come face-to-eyeball with the things.
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The Crawling Eye / int_b0a91b69	type	Convection, Schmonvection
The Crawling Eye / int_b0a91b69	comment	Convection, Schmonvection: The aliens attacking the observatory are defeated by having an airplane firebomb the observatory. But despite the fact that the aliens had already broken through the walls of the observatory in an attempt to get to Anne, the fires do not spread into the observatory itself and harm any of the people taking shelter there.
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The Crawling Eye / int_b4ac1655	type	Molotov Cocktail
The Crawling Eye / int_b4ac1655	comment	Molotov Cocktail: Used to fight the monsters.
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The Crawling Eye / int_c6d11745	type	Telepathy
The Crawling Eye / int_c6d11745	comment	Telepathy: Anne's psychic powers are framed like this, with her being able to look into other people's minds, allowing her and her sister to perform their mind-reading act. It causes problems when she unknowingly starts looking into the minds of the aliens as well.
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The Crawling Eye / int_d7639dba	type	Achilles' Heel
The Crawling Eye / int_d7639dba	comment	Achilles' Heel: The aliens, and to a lesser extent their servants, are incredibly sensitive to heat. It's for this reason that they always begin their invasions at the tops of cold mountains.
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The Crawling Eye / int_e303d198	type	Whole-Plot Reference
The Crawling Eye / int_e303d198	comment	Whole-Plot Reference: Freakazoid! used this as the basis of an entire episode ("The Cloud").
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The Crawling Eye / int_e542d889	type	Gorn
The Crawling Eye / int_e542d889	comment	Gorn: This film is shockingly gore-soaked for the period in which it was made.
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The Crawling Eye / int_ec0ce986	type	Spotting the Thread
The Crawling Eye / int_ec0ce986	comment	Spotting the Thread: The first victim is described as having been decapitated by his belaying rope when it tangled around his neck. It's quickly pointed out that the rope was secured about his waist and could not have gotten around his neck in the first place.
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The Crawling Eye / int_f2667f5f	type	Impostor-Exposing Test
The Crawling Eye / int_f2667f5f	comment	Impostor-Exposing Test: Those made into servants of the aliens apparently lack finer motor control that they had when they were human. Brooks gets a pretty good idea that Brett isn't himself anymore when he fails to pour his own drink or light his own cigarette upon being given one of each. Their sensitivity to heat is another tell, which is how the audience finds out Hans has become one later on.
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