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A series of decapitations on a Swiss mountainside appear to be connected to a mysterious radioactive cloud.A series of decapitations on a Swiss mountainside appear to be connected to a mysterious radioactive cloud.A series of decapitations on a Swiss mountainside appear to be connected to a mysterious radioactive cloud.
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- TriviaJohn Carpenter has said that this film, with its creatures hidden in the clouds, was partly the inspiration for his film The Fog (1980).
- GoofsAfter Brett gashes his forehead in a fight, they discover he does not bleed and that he is already dead. Yet Professor Crevette gives Brett an inject-able sedative in the arm. No blood means there is no way for the drug to travel to his brain.
- Quotes
Sarah Pilgrim: *Was* there an accident, Mister Klein?
Mayor Klein: O-On a mountain, uh, dese things sometimes happen.
- Crazy creditsThe film's opening credits flash onto the screen when the passenger train rolls into the darkness of a tunnel.
- ConnectionsEdited into FrightMare Theater: The Crawling Eye (2017)
Featured review
Not every monster to come out of the fifties was a guy in a rubber suit or a double exposed giant something-or-other. This effective British thriller offers one of the most original monsters ever. The creatures are aliens looking to colonise our planet but first they have to lower the temperature and eliminate one small obstacle . . .us! The cyclopean, tentacled terrors are prone to tearing off the heads of their victims but they possess the technology to kill certain Earth people and bring them back from the dead to do their bidding. Interestingly, the creatures brain waves are easily intercepted by anyone with even latent psychic abilities. This makes Janet Munro our required damsel-in-distress from not only the monsters but from the man (Andrew Faulds) they reanimate to get rid of her. Luckily this movie has two heroes, rough hewn Forrest Tucker (to make the movie appealing to American audiences) and British Lawrence Payne (later to star in Hammer's VAMPIRE CIRCUS). Okay I have a question. Midway through the film we see 2 mountain climbers, Brett and Dewhurst, halfway up the mountain where the aliens are. They take shelter in a small cabin. During the night Brett hears the aliens telepathic call and wanders up the mountain alone. Later Dewhurst gets up to look for him and (I guess) sees one of the aliens coming toward the cabin. He quickly bolts the door but then turns around and screams. Later a search party has to break down the front door and they find Dewhurst dead with his head torn off. WHAT THE HECK GOT HIM? The cabin is intact, not even a window broken, so how in the world did the alien monster kill him? And how does Dewhurst's head get inside the knapsack of Brett who is miles away? No, it isn't Brett who kills him because he could not have gotten into the cabin either. It is indeed a scary moment but very implausible if you stop to think about it. The rest of the movie is very good and quite memorable. Way back in 1957 it played on a double bill with THE STRANGE WORLD OF PLANET X (a/k/a COSMIC MONSTERS) in America. That was a bit before my time and now I am kind of sorry I missed the era of the drive-in. Thank goodness for home video.
- reptilicus
- Jul 2, 2001
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- Also known as
- Die Teufelswolke von Monteville
- Filming locations
- Alliance Film Studios, St Margarets, Twickenham, Middlesex, England, UK(studio: made at Alliance Film Studios Ltd)
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- Runtime1 hour 24 minutes
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- Aspect ratio
- 1.66 : 1
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