Wordiezett So much average

Onlinewsma Absolutely Brilliant!

Mandeep Tyson The acting in this movie is really good.

Gary The movie's not perfect, but it sticks the landing of its message. It was engaging - thrilling at times - and I personally thought it was a great time.

john_vance-20806 I have a weakness for this kind of 1950s B-film so I'm biased, but I find it to be among my favorite guilty pleasures.Having heads torn off by an invisible malevolent force was pretty bold stuff in that era, and showing fairly graphic shots of the separated portions would have been shocking. Forest Tucker and Janet Munro display some fine acting chops in helping to pull off some of the mundane dialog and implausible plot.Technically, the film lacks a lot. The matte work appears to be unnecessarily poor. Some of the scenes show stumbles that could have easily been re-shot. The special effects of the creatures aren't bad and in that era may have been considered quite impressive, but today they look pretty hokey.In the end, I'll watch it just to see Janet Munro, on whom I developed a crush during "The Horsemasters" Disney series. She died far too young and was a loss to the industry.

ajrg-17-381639 I was scared to death by this movie at 6 when it was 2 years old. Later I found it in a movie store marked as one of the worst science fiction movies of all time. I bought it. The movie no longer scares me but it is well written and can be watched again and again if you don't mind drinking,smoking and offering the same to others when you want to be polite. I liked the acting, writing and story which to me were not over the top and let me add I like movies but am not a huge fan of 1950s science fiction. I am not fond of classics from that era when we were fighting the cold war and the aliens represent evil. The special effects are not special but if that makes no difference to you, this is a good movie.

ctomvelu1 More than one poster here has drawn a comparison between "Eye" and "X-Files," and I heartily agree. I am not saying Chris Carter was familiar with "Eye," but the similarities are there. An investigator into the paranormal for the U.N. gets a cal from an old buddy to check out a disturbing situation atop Trollenberg Mountain. These two investigated a similar case in Peru or somewhere like that several years earlier. Turns out the disturbance is aliens from outer space, as it was in the Peru case. The aliens move about in a radioactive cloud and kill people in gruesome fashion. Some of those they kill become their undead slaves. The same day the U.N. investigator arrives, a pair of sisters show up who perform a mentalist act. The catch is, one of the sisters is indeed telepathic, and is receiving messages from the aliens. We mercifully don't get a good look at the aliens until halfway through, as they are ludicrous looking puppets that wouldn't scare a 4 year old. But before they are revealed, the suspense is built nicely and the film is quite unsettling. Forrest Tucker plays the investigator and the very pretty Janet Munro of "Darby O'Gill" fame is the telepath. As low budget and backlot stagey as "Eye" is, it is worth a look. Avoid the MST3K version, unless all you are after is a laugh.

Dr Phibes (some of the details discussed my be considered "spoilers" for anyone unfortunate enough that they have not already seen this movie... several times)The Crawling Eye is both excellent sci-fi and a study in the psychology of 50's culture.Only the special effects suffer in this B&W classic, though not badly for the era. Produced in the atmosphere of the dawning nuclear age it was a pioneering effort, speculating on the possibility of life on other worlds. Special effects at the time were limited for the most part to chocolate syrup for theatrical blood and scaled miniatures and backdrops to add depth to a studio scene, and silly rubber costumes. The fact that the monsters seem a little artificial shouldn't spoil this film for anyone.The storyline is quite brilliant for the era. Xenobiology and serious scientific speculation on the nature of life, what form it might take, how it might look, didn't exist yet. We had only our imaginations and the understanding that life on other worlds would likely be very different... a huge bulbous brain/eye with tentacles, was as valid at that time as any other guess, and it was creepy, gross, and unexpected. What the Crawling Eye was NOT, more than anything else... was a monster that looked like some poor guy dressed up in 50 pounds of latex.Comments by scientific giants of the day that discounted the notion that intelligent life was unique to Earth as hubris, became the seed for the wonderful Sci-fantasy stories that followed. The possibility that we might not really be alone, but drama requires a villain. The bigger the threat, the greater and more dramatic the effort required to overcome it.We had just finished a horrible world war, Russia had gone from our ally to our most powerful enemy almost overnight, unrest stirred in Asia as Korea was embroiled in civil war and we replaced these threats in cultural fiction with much more fearful threats. More terrible than Hitler and Stalin combined, alien life with advanced technologies beyond our understanding, space flight, tremendous intellect, and inhuman evil provided the antagonist. Once again the Earth was saved not by brilliance, or super weapons, but by heroism, stalwart character, and the refusal to submit to tyranny... The paragon of western values. Our fictional monsters had to be more horrible than life, because we'd already beaten Hitler... and we really had to dig down into our imaginations to find something more evil, more cunning, and more horrible to defeat... We found it for the moment in a tentacled abomination with one huge eye and the force of will to control men's thoughts, even onto death.I suggest a large box of popcorn, a soda in a too large leaky paper cup and more ice than necessary, and a bit of gum or a milk-dud stuck to the seat for the full effect.