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Robb White (written by)
Release Date:
29 July 1959 (USA)
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In Screamarama more
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After much hard work, a pathologist discovers and captures a creature that lives in every vertebrate and grows when fear grips its host...
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William Castle Film Collection Comes To DVD October 20th!
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(From The Flickcast. 20 October 2009, 1:00 PM, PDT)
William Castle Film Collection Comes To DVD October 20th!
(From Icons of Fright. 17 August 2009, 11:17 PM, PDT)
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More fun than it has any right to be!
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Cast
(Complete credited cast) | Vincent Price | ... | Dr. Warren Chapin |
 | Judith Evelyn | ... | Mrs. Martha Ryerson Higgins |
| Darryl Hickman | ... | David Morris |
| Patricia Cutts | ... | Isabel Stevens Chapin |
| Pamela Lincoln | ... | Lucy Stevens |
| Philip Coolidge | ... | Oliver 'Ollie' Higgins |
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82 min
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This film is listed among The 100 Most Amusingly Bad Movies Ever Made in Golden Raspberry Award founder John Wilson's book THE OFFICIAL RAZZIEŽ MOVIE GUIDE.
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Revealing mistakes: When the tingler attacks the sedated Dr. Chapin, you can see the wire that is pulling it.
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Oliver 'Ollie' Higgins:
[about Martha] She won't leave anyone alone with that safe.
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Featured in "TCM Underground: 13 Ghosts/The Tingler (#1.37)" (2008)
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What is the movie that's being shown in the theater when the tingler gets free?Did Dr Chapin give LSD to Martha?
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I was very young when this movie was originally released and my first encounter was when I switched on the TV (no remotes in those days, so I was right in front of the set) and a woman's face suddenly appeared, screaming right at me! It scared the living hell out of me --- and that was only a *commercial* for THE TINGLER! It was years before I saw the actual film and while it wasn't as scary as I imagined (nothing could have been) it had, as William Castle's films frequently do, an unsettling feeling of dread about it. Of course it's also absolutely ridiculous. The whole premise is insane, and the plot twists keep getting more and more loony, but that only adds to the fun! The titular creature itself is a mixed bag, crudely done (even for its day) but somehow effectively disgusting. The acting is uniformly good and the dialogue pretty intelligent. The only weak point for me was Judith Evelyn as the deaf mute wife, who overacted like hell but never seemed genuinely terrified by any of the bizarre goings on. The DVD contains an excellent short called SCREAM FOR YOUR LIVES including (among others) co-star Darryl Hickman, now in his seventies, looking incredibly fit and happy and seemingly unable to talk about making THE TINGLER without constantly cracking up. Who can blame him????