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HorrorScience Fiction

The Tingler

- Ghastly Beyond Belief!

A pathologist experiments with a deaf-mute woman who is unable to scream to prove that humans die of fright due to an organism he names The Tingler that lives within each person on the spinal cord and is suppressed only when people scream when scared.

Release Date : 1959-07-29

Language :English

Adult : false

Status : Released

Production Company : Columbia PicturesWilliam Castle Productions

Production Country : United States of America

Alternative Titles :

Cast

Vincent Price

Character Name : Dr. Warren Chapin

Original Name : Vincent Price

Gender : Male

Philip Coolidge

Character Name : Oliver 'Ollie' Higgins

Original Name : Philip Coolidge

Gender : Male

Judith Evelyn

Character Name : Mrs. Martha Ryerson Higgins

Original Name : Judith Evelyn

Gender : Female

Darryl Hickman

Character Name : David Morris

Original Name : Darryl Hickman

Gender : Male

Pamela Lincoln

Character Name : Lucy Stevens

Original Name : Pamela Lincoln

Gender : Female

Patricia Cutts

Character Name : Isabel Stevens Chapin

Original Name : Patricia Cutts

Gender : Female

William Castle

Character Name : Prologue Host (uncredited)

Original Name : William Castle

Gender : Male

Bob Gunderson

Character Name : Ryerson - Screaming Convict (uncredited)

Original Name : Bob Gunderson

Gender : Male

Dal McKennon

Character Name : Projectionist (uncredited)

Original Name : Dal McKennon

Gender : Male

Leon Alton

Character Name : Member of Silent Movie Audience (uncredited)

Original Name : Leon Alton

Gender : Male

Gertrude Astor

Character Name : Member of Silent Movie Audience (uncredited)

Original Name : Gertrude Astor

Gender : Female

Richard Barthelmess

Character Name : David Kinemon (archive footage) (uncredited)

Original Name : Richard Barthelmess

Gender : Male

Gail Bonney

Character Name : Member of Silent Movie Audience (uncredited)

Original Name : Gail Bonney

Gender : Female

Pat Colby

Character Name : Member of Silent Movie Audience (uncredited)

Original Name : Pat Colby

Gender : Male

George DeNormand

Character Name : Member of Silent Movie Audience (uncredited)

Original Name : George DeNormand

Gender : Male

Amy Fields

Character Name : Member of Silent Movie Audience (uncredited)

Original Name : Amy Fields

Gender : Female

Clarence Straight

Character Name : Member of Silent Movie Audience (uncredited)

Original Name : Clarence Straight

Gender : Male

Ernest Torrence

Character Name : Luke Hatburn (archive footage) (uncredited)

Original Name : Ernest Torrence

Gender : Male

Reviews

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dennyjt

@dennyjt

2022-07-26

William Castle was a master showman and this was his grandest triumph. He loved a gimmick, in this case Percepto, a device fitted beneath theater seats to enhance the climactic scenes by giving the patrons a short, sharp shock! Vincent Price, at his most maniacally deluded, is a pathologist who says he has discovered fear produces an actual physical creature that only be overcome by the release of a scream. He hopes to get his hands on someone who has died of fright to test his theory and this proves simpler than one might think, thanks to the company he keeps. It is a mad, nightmare of a horror that hurtles through scenes of capital punishment, a bad LSD trip (first time on film), an unfaithful wife, a silent movie theater (showing Tol'Able David, a true classic), younf love and a cheap looking monster. Even though the story is patently absurd, this is a fun-filled thrill ride, even without the threat of an electric jolt!