They Came from Beyond Space 1967  N/R, 85 min.
Genre: Sci-Fi
Director: Freddie Francis
Cast: Robert Hutton, Jennifer Jayne, Zia Mohyeddin, Bernard Kay, Michael Gough, Geoffrey Wallace, Maurice Good, Luanshya Greer, John Harvey, Diana King
Aliens crash on the Moon and then invade Earth in order to find assistance in fixing their spaceship. To do this, they take over the minds of Earthlings and use the people for slave laborers. But wait, Dr. Curtis Temple (Robert Hutton) has a metal plate in his head and is immune from the takeover. Being a socially conscious person, he heads to the Moon to talk sense into the aliens.
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The Trollenberg Terror 1958  N/R, 84 min.
Genre: Horror / Thriller
aka: The Crawling Eye
Director: Quentin Lawrence
Cast: Forrest Tucker, Laurence Payne, Jennifer Jayne, Janet Munro, Warren Mitchell, Andrew Faulds, Frederick Schiller, Stuart Saunders, Colin Douglas, Derek Sydney
Based on a BBC TV series, this film takes place in a remote mountain area of Switzerland where decapitation of people is occurring. The culprits are tentacled creatures with one eye who are also able to take over people by telepathy. They're hiding in a radioactive cloud in the mountains, and somebody has to do something to save humanity. I'm scared. 2 User Reviews
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| | Atmospheric and well done. | Mark Davidson 06/27/2009 | | A favorite for decades. It's an English 1950's sci-fi movie. So story, rather than special effects, is the main strength of the picture. One special effect sequence (planes bombing) is poor, but the balance is fairly well done. The story is very good, the characters are intelligent, and the acting is realistic and excellent. The movie starts as a mystery with horror overtones that, with discovery and disclosure of a back story, turns into a sci-fi "reasoning-alien" monster movie. Beautiful Janet Munro becomes telepathically linked to "something" in the Swiss Alps that has a purpose. On 1-10 scale: Story and acting = 7; monster/creature = 6 special effects, for English mid-50s = 5. Overall = 6.5-7 (I like it). Up there with the Quartermass movies. |
| | Anonymous 03/09/2007 | | A strange film, bad special effects and dodgy buildings... Sooner or later I know hollywood will remake it. |
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| 1. They Came from Beyond Space (1967)
2. The Trollenberg Terror (1958)
aka: The Crawling Eye
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