25.4.10

the trollenberg terror (1958)

AKA The Crawling Eye. Creature from Another World. The Creeping Eye. The Flying Eye. Trollenberg Horror.
"I believe that he was sent down the mountain with the express idea of killing Anne Pilgrim."
Anne and Sarah Pilgrim (Janet Munro and Jennifer Jayne) make the acquaintance of Alan Brooks (Forrest Tucker) on a train through the Swiss Alps. Anne insists that they get off at Trollenberg when it is announced as the next stop. By co-incidence Alan is also stopping there, to visit a friend, Prof Crevett (Warren Mitchell), who runs the local observatory. Anne soon starts talking about climbers who have gone missing recently on the mountain, she seems to know a lot about it for some reason, but how? Meanwhile Alan visits the Professor and he's soon told of the disappearances and a mysterious, radioactive cloud spotted moving around the mountain.
An enjoyable pulp sci-fi/horror, that makes the most of the small budget.

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