Girls You Have To See It To Believe It!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

                                                One thing I have to give "The Crawling Eye" is originality.  Though the title characteer does  not appear till near the end of the film, what  comes befoe  succeeds in  building  up tension  and suspense.  We know there  is a  meanacing cloud atop Mount Trollenberg, that it moves,  and that climbers who vanish into it never come out. Why?

                                                   Supposedly, this inspired John Carpenter's 1980 film,  "The  Fog."  And, I wouldn't be surprised if Stephen King's 2007 film, "The Mist," (where Marcia Gay Harden walked off with the film, as Mrs.Carmody) came from this,  too.

                                                         Janet Munro gives the film's best performance, as Ann  Pilgrim, the telephathically gifted  traveler,  who  stops  in Trollenberg, with  her sister, Sarah (Jennifer Jaynes).  Janet at once channels Jennifer Jones  as Bernadette,  Audrey Hepburn, and Leslie Caron,  till the  viewer does  not know what the hell  she is  doing.

                                                          Again, the question must be asked--how did  American B-actor, Forrest  Tucker, get involved in  this British  cheapie?  This is  not "Black  Narcissus," darlings; the art  direction of  the mountains,  the cloud,  and the climbers on cheap sets, show a lack  of  art direction, let alone innovation.

                                                             The  rest  of  the actors  are props.

                                                             But--the filmi is worth sitting through for the most orginal  monster, next to  "Cucumbo" in "It Conquered The World."  And  how does a mother lose her  child? The  scene where the  litttle girl  gets entangled in The Crawling Eye is hilarious; she screams, as if  even she knows the whole thing is a joke.  Credit  to  the person who created, and those who designed, this monster--or  monsters,  as  it  turns  out  to be.

                                                               This was so much fun, after several decades.  It will never  see the  lights of  Broadway,  as  a musical,  but don't miss  this  cheesey thiing  when you  have  the chance!

                                                                  I  think  all  opthamalogists  should be  required  to see  it!!!!!!!!!!!!!