The Tingler
Ghastly Beyond Belief!
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Release Date
7/29/1959Runtime
82 minsGenres
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.
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ReleasedOriginal Language
EnglishBudget
$250,000Revenue
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A delightfully pulpy B-movie premise, a spinal creature that feeds on suppressed screams, played with absolute conviction and visual invention. It's campy body horror wrapped in genuine theatrical showmanship, the kind of film that knows exactly how ridiculous it is and delights in the audacity.
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Heads up
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)
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