IslandGuru Who payed the critics

Incannerax What a waste of my time!!!

Joanna Mccarty Amazing worth wacthing. So good. Biased but well made with many good points.

Roxie The thing I enjoyed most about the film is the fact that it doesn't shy away from being a super-sized-cliche;

JLRVancouver "The Tingler" features the eponymous monster, which grows in your spinal column in response to fear and that can only be vanquished by screaming. To make a movie out of such a premise requires an extremely contrived plot in which Vincent Price, who suspects that there is such a creature, encounters a man who then decides to kill his deaf mute wife by scaring her to death (thereby causing the creature to manifest without in the absence of screaming). Once that premise is accepted, the movie is pretty good. The 'scare to death' scenes are quite well done for what they are, especially the faucets running with blood (recall that this is pre-CGI – the whole thing was done photographically with makeup and set design). The consistency suffers as the movie progresses, especially the effects of screams on the critter, the movie theatre scene (the gimmick that is the raison d'être for the story) is a bit silly, and the ending of the movie is abrupt and somewhat unsatisfying. Never-the-less, the movie is great schlock from the master, William Castle. I envy those lucky viewers who got tingled when the movie first came out.

Rainey Dawn Vincent Price plays Dr. Warren Chapin, a pathologist that has a strong curiosity concerning fear and the sensation of a tingling spine. He's sort of a "mad scientist" character that is willing to scare himself literally to prove his theory. Using the LSD drug in order to prove that, what he calls, The Tingler exists as a real living creature that lives in all vertebrate life forms. He finds that screaming will save a person's life but if they can't scream The Tingler will emerge. Chapin himself can scream so Martha Higgins' becomes Chapin's prime subject for his research since she is a deaf mute but she has to frightened. Beware of The Tingler.The film is extremely surreal once it gets going, the sudden red color contrasting with the B&W film looks like a dream or should I say nightmare.I'm sure audiences in 1959 screamed, at least some did. The film in today's society may not have you screaming but it does have some eerie moments and it is loads of fun to watch.8/10

tomgillespie2002 Eager pathologist Dr. Warren Chapin (Vincent Price) studies the strange effects experiencing terror has on the human body. Operating on a convict recently executed in the electric chair, he notices that the dead man's spine has been almost completely severed in two. A silent movie theatre owner, Ollie Higgins (Philip Coolidge), befriends Chapin and introduces the doctor to his deaf-mute wife Martha (Judith Evelyn), who passes out from fright at the sight of Chapin drawing blood after cutting his finger. Chapin believes that the tingling in our spine when we are frightened is the work of the 'Tingler' a microscopic creature that grows rapidly when its host is scared, only to be neutralised by letting out a powerful scream.Director William Castle, best known for B-movie gems such as House on Haunted Hill (1959) and The Old Dark House (1963), was a man who knew how to sell a ticket. Introducing the film and warning of the horrors to come, we are then treated to various heads screaming in terror at the screen. It's schlocky and camp - two factors that have endeared Castle to a dedicated cult following - but it immediately draws you into its giddy clutches. The premise itself is utterly ludicrous and little more than an excuse for Castle to use his new gimmick Percepto! - where audience members would receive small vibrations through their seat whenever the tingler - a rather cheap- looking rubber giant velvet worm - appeared on screen.It's a time capsule of an era when the cinema was a communal experience rather than somewhere to have your ears damaged by the sound of fighting robots. At the climax, the tingler is on the loose inside a cinema showing silent movie Tol'able David (1924) while Chapin frantically searches for it. The screen goes black while Price's voice warns us not to panic and to scream as loud as we can. Of course, the full effect is lost when watching the movie through your laptop, but you can picture the excitement that must have been buzzing throughout the theatre back in 1959, whether it be with genuine terror or in stitches at the playful goofiness of it all. Although it is far from his best film, Castle knows how to put on a show and The Tingler is a fine example of his campy appeal. As a bonus, it also has Vincent Price on LSD in cinema's first acid trip.

oynaqozgar This is a William Castle movie and if you don't know who he is then please look him up as possibly one of the best director, producer, screenwriters the horror industry has ever had. Hitchcock has real competition here.This is a very well written and directed and more believable movie than most of our current talent in his category. Castle was known for his "gimmicks" as seen before this movies even starts. So he has lost some respect of movies goers. But not the real fans of horror.On this film he uses one of his "gimmicks" at the start of the movie, but backs it up will a real horror film. I am a huge fan of horror movies in all the decades. If you want to see a movie that does not rely on a woman running and falling down because she tripped on a pebble, or the bad guy getting a small stab wound and "OK we can forget about him" so he gets up later. If you want to see a movies and bear in mind it is from 1959, that does not try to insult you just by watching it with predictable endings and lazy writing that makes no sense. Than watch this movie and then you will want to see the rest of Castle's movies.Having said that I am a fan of stupid horror moves, but people like Castle and Hitchcock, we should all watch and know want real horror movies, be as it is in decades past should be looked up to and respected.This movies is worth watching, it is not "Michael Mires" scary as in the first "Halloween". But it does deserve respect and I would like to see more of the true effort put into this movie to make it "scary" in its day, in new films.But just my opinion, Oy