The Tingler

“Ghastly Beyond Belief!”

6.4(188)19591h 22m

HorrorScience Fiction

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.

Director

William Castle

Budget

$0.3M

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Cast

Vincent Price

Dr. Warren Chapin

Philip Coolidge

Oliver 'Ollie' Higgins

Judith Evelyn

Mrs. Martha Ryerson Higgins

Darryl Hickman

David Morris

Pamela Lincoln

Lucy Stevens

Patricia Cutts

Isabel Stevens Chapin

William Castle

Prologue Host (uncredited)

Bob Gunderson

Ryerson - Screaming Convict (uncredited)

Dal McKennon

Projectionist (uncredited)

Leon Alton

Member of Silent Movie Audience (uncredited)

Gertrude Astor

Member of Silent Movie Audience (uncredited)

Richard Barthelmess

David Kinemon (archive footage) (uncredited)

Reviews

1 review

dennyjt

3y ago

6.0

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...