The Tingler

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  • Featurette: Scream for Your Lives!
  • An original William Castle drive-in "Scream" scene
  • Theatrical Trailers
  • Interactive Menus
  • Scene Selections
  • Widescreen (Anamorphic)
  • Audio: English [CC], Spanish
  • Subtitles: English, Spanish, Portuguese, Chinese, Korean, Thai
  • Rated: Not Rated
  • Run Time: 1 hours, 22 minutes
  • Video: Black & White
  • Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
  • Released: September 7, 1999
  • Originally Released: 1959
  • Label: Sony Pictures

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User Ratings: 5,011
The Tingler is more gimmick than movie and it lacks the level of tension and terror of other productions, but the showmanship is still a lot of fun. Full Review
Turner Classic Movies Online
Jul 29, 2007
Rating: 3/4 -- Perhaps William Castle's most outrageous film, The Tingler also stands as one of his best. Full Review
Creative Loafing
Aug 29, 2018
Rating: 3/5 -- Better than average Castle thriller with a wonderfully campy Vincent Price.
Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
Feb 20, 2003
Rating: 8/10 -- How any red-blooded American could hear 'Vincent Price's acid trip,' and not fall over themselves rushing to find a copy of the movie is beyond my comprehension. Full Review
Antagony & Ecstasy
Apr 7, 2008
Rating: 3/4 -- Well-made, and anyone with an appreciation for the fright flicks of yesteryear will certainly recognize it as a work of significant note. Full Review
Aisle Seat
Aug 20, 2018
Rating: 3/5 -- A wonderful William Castle excursion, that is best seen in theaters unless you can wire your seats at home.
Journal and Courier (Lafayette, IN)
Jan 30, 2003
Rating: 3/5 -- Real shock schlock.
Your Movies (cleveland.com)
Jan 31, 2003

Description by OLDIES.com:

Vincent Price stars as an obsessed doctor who discovers that manifests itself as a parasitic creature, which grows on the spinal cords of terrified people. If they scream, the Tingler can be destroyed. If they don't, it will sever the spinal column and kill them. He successfully isolates and removes the Tingler from a deaf mute (Judith Evelyn) who has been scared to death by her devious husband. Once captured, the Tingler escapes and runs amok in a crowded movie theater.

The Tingler is legendary horror director William Castle's magnum opus. After the success of House On Haunted Hill, Castle devised a new gimmick called "Percepto" for The Tingler. Participating theaters would wire seats so that random moviegoers would get a tangible electric shock during climactic moments in the film. Another novelty used to maximum effect is the short color sequence depicting blood pouring from a faucet and filling a bathtub. Castle went on to direct more cult classics like Homicidal and 13 Ghosts and later produced the mainstream hit Rosemary's Baby.

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This delightful gimmick film from producer-director William Castle stars Vincent Price as Dr. Chapin, a scientist who discovers a caterpillarlike parasite that grows in the human spine when someone is afraid and that, unless they scream, can grow large enough to kill them. He solemnly dubs this creature the tingler. Philip Coolidge plays the owner of a nearby cinema who befriends the doctor and whose deaf-mute wife suddenly receives all sorts of shocks, like the sight of a bathtub full of blood with a hand reaching out from it. Since she can't scream, she dies, and Chapin gets his hands on her oversize tingler. When it eventually escapes inside the movie theater, the film within the film, and then the film itself, stops for an announcement from Price, out of character, urging the audience to scream their heads off. Castle originally had random seats in theaters equipped to deliver small electric shocks at this key moment, and he hired women to faint and ushers to carry them out, all in his determination to get the audience to scream. Even without all the ballyhoo it's a fun film, a delightful relic from the days of the gimmick.

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  • Sales Rank: 9,953
  • UPC: 043396077799
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