The Trollenberg Terror story

movie: The Trollenberg Terror (1958) · 1958-10-07

United Nations troubleshooter Alan Brooks, later joined by journalist Philip Truscott, investigating unusual accidents occurring in the area of a resort hotel on (the fictional) Mount Trollenberg in Switzerland. Brooks suspects these deaths are related to a series of similar incidents that occurred three years earlier in the Andes mountains, which involved an unexplained radioactive mist and odd cloud formation believed by locals to be inhabited.

5 total · 4 major · 1 minor

ThemeLevelMotivation
attack from outer space by a powerful conquering enemy major Radioactive space clouds harboring multi-tentacled, one-eyed creatures invaded the Earth, perhaps because their place of origin had become uninhabitable.
living space cloud major A radioactive mist, hypothesized to be form outer space, was lurking about on the Mount Trollenberg peak. Note that the cloud was ultimately discovered to harbor a multi-tentacled creature with a single huge eye.
sister and sister major Sarah Pilgrim and her telepathic sister Anne Pilgrim.
the dangers of radioactivity major A radioactive mist lurking about on the Mount Trollenberg peak was killing people.
telepathic society minor Anne Pilgrim manifested telepathic abilities and was drawn to the Trollenber radioactive mist.