The Tingler

1959 • 81 minutes

À propos de ce film

As famous for the gimmick with which the film was shown as for its genuinely spine-tingling story, The Tingler follows a pathologist (Vincent Price) as he searches for the cause of a series of deaths and discovers that the victims have a large insect-like creature growing on their spinal chords. The creature attacks when the people are frightened and is only killed when the host emits a blood-curdling primal scream. This is coupled with a subplot to scare the deaf-mute owner of a silent movie house to death. Along the way, a couple of characters are injected with LSD and begin hallucinating like mad. When one of the nasty monsters "escaped" into a movie theater, the film's gimmick would begin. In order to further frighten audiences, director William Castle had certain theater seats rigged with small Army surplus devices that would deliver a mild electric shock to the spine in hopes of inducing terrified screams. © 1959, renewed 1987 Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

Notes et avis

My mom had me & my big sis watch it when I was 12 & it creeped me out so much I loved it LoL! I grew up w Freddy, Jason & Stephen King's books! But I fell in love with the classics that day cuz of this movie! It's so creepy esp when you keep in mind the era it was made & the scary bug like creature that kills you, is disgustingly like a giant centipede spider thingy, & I'm terrified of them @normal size so a giant size that's inside you! OmGod it gave me nightmares more than any other movie LoL!

Scared the hell out of me while I was making Christmas cookies one afternoon. I never checked to see what movie was playing the day I decided to bake, but this day, I stood with my back against the kitchen wall and never took my eyes off the screen. Vincent Price is always wonderfully scarey.

You really had to see it at the time it was released. It’s really vintage from a time when movie making relied on music and very dramatic acting made its impact. It was impressive through an eight year olds eyes and imagination.