The Tingler (1959) | |
| Director(s) | William Castle |
| Producer(s) | William Castle |
| Top Genres | Horror |
| Top Topics | Monster |
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The Tingler (1959) was a Horror Film directed by William Castle and produced by William Castle.
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The Tingler (1959)
By Beatrice on Dec 1, 2016 From Flickers in TimeThe Tingler Directed by William Castle Written by Robb White 1959/USA Columbia Pictures/William Castle Productions First viewing/Netflix rental William Castle and Vincent Price make delightful co-conspirators. Dr. Warren Chapin (Price) is a pathologist with an inquiring mind. ?One of his duties i... Read full article
Classic Films in Focus: THE TINGLER (1959)
By Jennifer Garlen on Nov 14, 2016 From Virtual ViragoThe Tingler (1959) is one of William Castle's most famous horror gimmick pictures, partly because of its star, Vincent Price, and partly because of its wacky use of wired seats and paid plants to elicit screams from the theater audience. Sadly, the modern home viewer can't enjoy the weird thrills of... Read full article
Classic Films in Focus: THE TINGLER (1959)
By Jennifer Garlen on Nov 14, 2016 From Virtual ViragoThe Tingler (1959) is one of William Castle's most famous horror gimmick pictures, partly because of its star, Vincent Price, and partly because of its wacky use of wired seats and paid plants to elicit screams from the theater audience. Sadly, the modern home viewer can't enjoy the weird thrills of... Read full article
Tol’able David meets… The TINGLER!!! Special William Castle Animated GIF
By Movies, Silently on Jul 29, 2013 From Movies SilentlyTo honor the start of the William Castle Blogathon, I made this GIF from The Tingler. The titular nasty is loose in a silent movie theater that just happens to be playing Tol’able David, one of my favorite movies. This is the iconic scene in which the Tingler crawls in front of the projector. ... Read full article
Favorite things about… The Tingler
By Lindsey on Oct 23, 2012 From The Motion Pictures(Screen capture by TMP) The favorite film: The Tingler, a 1959 Columbia Pictures horror/sci-fi flick written by Robb White and directed by William Castle The synopsis: Dr. Warren Chapin has a solid job conducting autopsies on executed prisoners. On the side, he’s a bit of a mad scientist, form... Read full article
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Quotes from
David Morris: Suppose a person couldn't possibly scream?
Lucy Stevens: Well everybody can scream.
David Morris: A deaf mute can't scream.
Dr. Warren Chapin: The tingler exists in every human being, we now know. Look at that tingler, Dave. It's an ugly and dangerous thing-ugly because it's the creation of man's fear; dangerous because... because a frightened man is dangerous.
Lucy Stevens: Dave, that drug you brought...
David Morris: It's not a drug, it's an Acid
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Facts about
The Tingler is a large scale model of velvet worm, also called peripatus. It has its own phylum - Onychophora. It is about half way between and earthworm and an arthropod.
William Castle toyed with other ideas to frighten audience members, in addition to 'percepto'; among them: rolling bean bags to brush against the legs of audience members, speakers mounted at different areas that would give a 'screech' when the tingler appeared, and possibly even using 'shills' to operate some type of mechanical device to tickle the legs of the audience members; but the only viable way of doing it was by attaching buzzers in select seats to coincide with the appearance of the tingler- 'percepto'.
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