There have been only a few movies I saw as a kid that I couldn’t remember the title and one of them I only caught a few moments but I remembered it involved something with a tentacle and it took place in the mountains. That wasn’t much to go on. My family was on a major vacation that took us from the lower Hudson Valley to the Niagara Falls. We hit many stops along the way including Whiteface Mountain and Santa’s Workshop in North Pole, NY. As we were leaving a motel room the TV was showing The Crawling Eye. What stood out for me was that one of the tentacles went after a toddler which freaked me out. After that vacation I think my brother had just finished his time in the army and was sleeping his room which I shared with him. The washer or dryer in our basement began to shake violently and I thought the that monster was down there.
I don’t know what renewed my curiosity in finding these movies from childhood but this one was tough to find. Despite being a fan of MST3K I somehow missed their episode featuring the movie. When I started a Netflix subscription it opened the doors for me in finding long forgotten movies. The Crawling Eye went by another name, The Trollenberg Terror. I actually had to go through a few movies before I figured it out. Since there were tentacles I went for a lot of sea monster movies.