horror film The Fog. In popular culture The main title music from The Crawling Eye was featured on the album Greatest Science Fiction Hits V by Neil Norman and his Cosmic Orchestra, released in 1979 on GNP Crescendo Records. The film is mentioned in Stephen King's 1986 horror novel It as having been watched by one of the book's protagonists (Richie Tozier) and that the movie terrified him; a crawling eye creature later appears as a manifestation of It, the novel's title monster. Under the title The Crawling Eye, the film was the first of many productions to be mocked on the TV series Mystery Science Theater 3000, after the series moved from KTMA to Comedy Central; the episode aired on 11 November 1989. It was also briefly mentioned at the end of the season 10 finale (the original series finale) covering Danger: Diabolik. It aired in 2021 with several humorous interludes in a special "Saturday Pandemic " episode of svengoolie. The Freakazoid episode "The Cloud" spoofed the opening credits of the film and key elements of the plot, though with the victims being turned into clowns instead of being killed. A song called "Crawling Eye" was featured on American horror punk band the Misfits' 1999 album Famous Monsters; the song's lyrics directly referenced the plot of the film. Shown on the MeTV show Svengoolie on November 26, 2022. References Bibliography Blush, Steven. American Hardcore: A Tribal History. New York: Feral House, 2001. . Hamilton, John. The British Independent Horror Film 1951–70. Hailsham, U.K.: Hemlock Books, 2013. . King, Stephen. It. New York: Viking, 1986. . Lenburg, Jeff. "Steven Spielberg Presents Freakazoid!". The Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoons (third edition). New York, New York: Checkmark Books, 1999. . Maltin, Leonard. Leonard Maltin's Movie Guide 2009. New York: New American Library, 2009 (originally published as TV Movies, then as Leonard Maltin's Movie & Video Guide), first edition 1969, published annually since 1988. . Warren, Bill. Keep Watching the Skies: American Science Fiction Films of the Fifties: 21st Century Edition. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company, 2009 (first edition: Volume 1 (1982), Volume 2 (1986)). . External links Southall Film Studios Action TV Mystery Science Theater 3000 Episode Guide: 101- The Crawling Eye 1958 films 1958 horror films 1950s monster movies Giant monster films British monster movies 1950s science fiction horror films British science fiction films British horror films Films shot at Southall