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This is Rob Lamb, and today we are rearing an episode that originally published 530, 2025.

It is 1958's The Crawling Eye. This one has a pretty great monster in it, so dive into the discussion here with us.

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Hey, welcome to Weird House Cinema. This is Rob Lamb.

And I am Joe McCormick. And today we're going to be discussing the 1958 British sci-fi horror film,

The Trollenberg Terror, which was released in the United States and probably better known overall as the crawling eye, a title that is in really bad taste because I think it flagrantly destroys the tension and mystery leading up to the revelation of the monster's true form in the final act. Rob, i were talking about this the other day i i love how careless titling and other movie meta used to be with just

ruining all the surprises of the story uh here i believe we have the uh the distributors corporation

of america to thank for this title and i have to think like

if citizen kane had been a foreign film and they had released it in america they would have called

it like sled problems or something yeah i think we still do see trailers in our modern day that

give away way too much and uh and reveal like most of the plot.

I've seen trailers where afterwards I'm like, okay, that's most of the movie.

I could maybe just watch the last five minutes of the film to see how it wraps up and I'd be good at this point

instead of watching the whole two hour plus.

But yeah, these films of this nature where it was something being

released to the U.S. market and then packaged in a different way. So as to, I guess, just try to

maximize the eyeballs on it. And maybe, too, there is the idea. It's like, look, the American

teenager just wants to know what they're going to be making out to. They're just going to go ahead and make sure the monster is mentioned in the title. Transparency and advertising. And also maybe leaning more on like the, I don't know, like the drive-in spectacle of the thing. You know, it's like crawling eye. Don't you want to see that as large as life? I don't know. That's my best bet. I think it's mostly, though, just take this thing from, from, from the UK and just try and get the most attention gathered around it. And so, yeah, go ahead and spoil everything. Why not? To be fair, Trallenberg is not a word that most people would recognize. And for good reason, because this is not a real place in the movie.

Like, the movie makes up this mountain in Switzerland called Trollenberg.

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