BootDigest Such a frustrating disappointment

Greenes Please don't spend money on this.

Matialth Good concept, poorly executed.

Guillelmina The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

StarGazer77 I too love this movie! Pure fun, pure escapism! I grew up in the 50's and I♡ the SCI-FI films of this decade. Beautiful women, almost scary monsters and just a lot of fun! THE CRAWLING EYE is a lot of fun on a rainy day or nite, great atmosphere and just enjoy it for what it is A 1958 SCI FI Movie that has good pacing and the acting is pretty solid. Just enjoy and it is a great escape film to a simpler time.

Hank Sampson If you happen to like classic sci fi films with a healthy dose of B movie vibe than you will enjoy this. I give it extra points because of it's British'ness as that's never a bad thing in my book. Sure it's low budget and the special effects are unintentionally humorous, but there's a good story here, right up until the final scenes when we learn that eyeballs are out to conquer the world. I think if the monsters had been kept in the shadows this would have made for a far superior film but there is something endearing about a time when SFX people had to rely on their ingenuity without the option of turning it over to the CGI department. I can remember watching this as a kid with my mom when a local station was carrying an all night movie marathon on Halloween night. Therefore the film will always rate at least a seven out of ten in my book. Harmless, fun and nostalgic.

Austin Cross This was among the first old sci-fi film in a string of old sci-fi films that I watched in the last month or so. I do not really remember where I came upon it. I do remember that I was searching for another old film and ended up finding this one instead. And I have to tell you, I am glad that I watched it.The plot of this film is based around a mysterious cloud that never moves from a certain spot on the Trollenberg mountain and the connection between a mind-reading act from London and United Nations troubleshooter. As it turns out, this connection leads to the realization of what this mysterious cloud is and what dark secrets are harbored within it.This was quite an enjoyable film, and being a science fiction film from the 1950s, it was put together really well. The dialogue and story was on point and I really felt like I was in suspense during the whole film. One of my favorite aspects of the film is the how a woman from the mind reading act somehow knows part of everything that is going on.The monster, or in this case monsters, in this film is not particularly scary. They were probably very frightening when the movie first came out, but it isn't, at least me, now.Overall, I give this film a seven out of ten, for a very believable story and relatable dialogue. I do believe that this film has the makings of a remake in its future.

MARIO GAUCI One of the late Jimmy Sangster's 'extra-curricular activities', as it were, was taking some time off from Hammer Films and contributing scripts to other 'brand names': this, in fact, is among a handful he made for the movie-making team of Robert S. Baker and Monty Berman. While here he was dealing in science-fiction, he would also pen their JACK THE RIPPER (1959) and THE SIEGE OF SIDNEY STREET (1960), both of which attempted to recreate notorious real-life incidents and whose own viewing will follow presently.Like Hammer's own QUATERMASS titles (scripted by Nigel Kneale), which were the prototype of this subgenre, the film under review saw its origins as a TV serial: actually, Sangster had earlier been responsible for X–THE UNKNOWN (1956), the very first off-shoot of that classic franchise (again made by the famed British House Of Horror). Still, even if the writing is reasonably intelligent (feeding on the alien invasion/mind control themes then prevalent within the genre), the 'lower-berth' nature of the production does render the proceedings slightly less than persuasive: for one thing, the design of the creature (The Crawling Eye, as the U.S. moniker would have it, though there is actually more than one and it can perhaps best be described as an over-sized octopus!) is more silly than scary, their telepathic connection to Janet Munro's character never properly explained…nor, for that matter, just what kind of threat she was supposed to pose for them that they had to send 'zombies' – whose flesh literally disintegrates when exposed to extreme heat – in order to eliminate her, since she is mostly so distraught by these visions that she faints outright after each experience! Another illogical detail pertains to the walls of the fortress-like conservatory (to which the severely under-populated village retreats during the alien clampdown), which are shown as not able to withstand the sheer impact of the invaders' weight, yet we are asked to believe that the bombs fired away by the stock-footage planes that come to the rescue will not harm the edifice! This is not forgetting the monsters' victims, which are bafflingly left beheaded (though this may have been merely a way of incorporating gory effects, which were becoming fashionable around this time!).I cannot say whether it was done on purpose, but it seems to me that the Central European setting in this case was a direct nod to the Universal FRANKENSTEIN films (which had just been revived by none other than Hammer with the involvement of Sangster himself!), down to the iconic moment in which an innocent young girl comes face to face with the monster – though here she is saved by hero Forrest Tucker. Typically, an American lead (albeit hardly a star) was recruited to secure overseas commercial appeal: actually, he had already appeared in Hammer's fine THE ABOMINABLE SNOWMAN (1957; scripted by Kneale and co-starring company and genre icon Peter Cushing) and would also make the even less distinguished THE STRANGE WORLD OF PLANET X (1958; which I have yet to watch, even if I do have a TV-sourced copy of it somewhere!).Mind you, while I seem to have been rather harsh on the film, I enjoyed it a good deal: if anything, apart from the familiar suspense situations and exciting action sequences, it is well-enough cast – numbering among its other protagonists future Hammer alumni Jennifer Jayne (from KISS OF THE VAMPIRE {1963} and THE REPTILE {1966}) as Munro's elder sister and the other half of their clairvoyant stage-act, Laurence Payne (who had been the protagonist of the interesting Poe adaptation THE TELL-TALE HEART {1960}) as an initially suspicious figure who, revealed to be a scoop-seeking reporter, eventually turns heroic and Warren Mitchell as the obligatory eccentric scientist (who has summoned former colleague Tucker to Trollenberg after a similar 'radioactive cloud' occurrence – which the aliens utilize to travel in! – at another mountain-top setting, the Andes, some years before).