The Tingler
“Ghastly Beyond Belief!”
Certified Crap. CrapScore 67, rated by 1 admin.
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Vincent Price investigates a fear-fed organism whose suppression depends on screaming. The scientific premise is magnificent nonsense, surrounded by vicious marital arguments and William Castle's theatrical instincts. Even without the original cinema gimmicks, it offers a particularly talkative evening of macabre showmanship.
Nominated by @flabbergasted_jones
The club’s verdict
- Acting
- 4/10
- Plot
- 8.5/10
- Effects
- 5.5/10
- Dialogue
- 7.5/10
- Rewatchability
- 8/10
“Medical advice: scream first, request a second opinion later.”
@flabbergasted_jones, scored it 67
Synopsis and movie facts
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.
- Released
- 1959
- Directed by
- William Castle
- Running time
- 82 min
Starring
- Vincent Price as Dr. Warren Chapin
- Philip Coolidge as Oliver 'Ollie' Higgins
- Judith Evelyn as Mrs. Martha Ryerson Higgins
- Darryl Hickman as David Morris
- Pamela Lincoln as Lucy Stevens
- Patricia Cutts as Isabel Stevens Chapin
- William Castle as Prologue Host (uncredited)
- Bob Gunderson as Ryerson - Screaming Convict (uncredited)
Research behind this pick
Researched . Explore the film references and reviews below.
- Film reference · themoviedb.org
Canonical film identity, release date, runtime, director credits, cast, genres, synopsis and poster checked against TMDB movie 26857.
- Review · moriareviews.com
The review praises the outrageous premise, Price and the torrid marital conflict alongside Castle's gimmickry.
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