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The Tingler
“Ghastly Beyond Belief!”
6.4 / 10• 1959• 1h 22m•NR• English
HorrorScience Fiction
Storyline
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.
Cast & Crew
Vincent Price
Dr. Warren Chapin
Lead
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)
What People Are Saying
4.0
“A staggering achievement of craft and ambition. William Castle's vision lands with breathtaking precision.”
3.0
“Every frame feels alive. The Tingler is the rare release that takes its audience seriously.”
