Like the title monsters, we're down to one good eye and move around awkwardly......the only difference being that the cloud we live in is more symbolic and metaphorical........as opposed to these guys, living in an actual icy cloud floating around mountaintops.......
Also, we adamantly deny ever using a tentacle to behead unwary mountain climbers.....
Laugh all you like at the movie's valiant but failed attempt to create, on a typical paltry 1950's sci-fi movie budget, frightening and convincing monsters. We love those bulbous, puppet-y eyeballs anyway......and apart from its creatures, the rest of the film is pretty damn good, competently acted and directed and edited for maximum suspense and action.....
And another BQ admission: we come back to this film to renew our crush on the criminally adorable Janet Munro, that star-crossed, tragic young actress who died of heart disease at age 38....
Munro plays a psychic lured to a European mountain resort by her telepathic contact with the Crawling Eyes, cloud-dwelling aliens attempting to adjust themselves to earth temperatures.......(and just for fun, squishing the heads off folks or turning them into walking dead murderous zombies....or we guess you'd call them I-Zombies...
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Without belaboring the plot mechanics, everyone left alive in the cast takes refuge in a bunker-like scientific observatory on top of a mountain........in time for the....uh....let's say less than professional looking climactic battle between the Eyes and a fighter jet.....
Sadly for all of us who revere ridiculous movie monsters.......when the dust clears and the votes are taken.......the Eyes don't have it...
But they live forever in our hearts and the Eyes make a wonderful cinematic candy corn Halloween treat. We'll blink 3 stars (***).......and no uploading into their cloud, if you hope to keep your heads about you......
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