This film has everything to give a kid nightmares in 1965!
I saw this about a half century ago and I still remember it. It gave me many a chill as an eight-year-old.
This film has everything a film needs to be great:
1. Crazy professors.
2. Radioactive clouds.
3. An observatory with steel doors.
4. Some fair semi-noir acting.
5. Funny commentary.
6. Giant alien tentacled eye balls in the mist that eat people.
Ah yes, this is one to savor. Really, it is. Try it and you'll see.
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Some bad movies are so bad they are funny; most bad movies, however, are simply bad, and in order to be funny they need a little help. Debuting on television in 1988 and running for eleven years, MYSTERY SCIENCE THEATER 3000 did precisely that. The premise was wacky. An average Joe type guy is trapped on a wayward satelite by a mad scientist who is convinced he can dominate the world through bad movies. Each episode included several broad-farce sketches between the guy, his robot pals, and the mad scientist--but the big thing was the movie, watched by our hapless victim and robots Tom Servo and Crow. The film on this occasion is THE CRAWLING EYE, and it is hard to believe that England originally rated this film for audiences aged sixteen and older; there's nothing in it that would frighten a six year old.
Released in 1958, THE CRAWLING EYE has also been known as THE TROLLENBERG TERROR, THE CREEPING EYE, THE FLYING EYE, and CREATURE FROM ANOTHER WORLD. The story is a bit...
a bit boring
very early in the season, not one of the best. some chuckles, it does get better on later episodes with slightly better movies
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