The Tingler
HorrorScience Fiction
6.376/10
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|82 min
Release Date: 1959-07-29
Overview - 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.
Production Companies
Columbia PicturesWilliam Castle Productions
User Reviews
dennyjt
6/10
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...
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