The Tingler

1959 • 81 Minuten

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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.

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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.

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.