The Tingler

The Tingler
by William Castle

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Actor: Darryl Hickman, Judith Evelyn, Pamela Lincoln, Patricia Cutts, Vincent Price
Director: William Castle
Brand: Sony
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; Spanish (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); Portuguese (Subtitled); Georgian (Subtitled); Chinese (Subtitled); Thai (Subtitled)
Format: Anamorphic, Black & White, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: Anamorphic Widescreen, 1.85:1
Running Time: 81 minutes
DVD Release Date: 1999-09-07
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: Sony Pictures

DVD Reviews of The Tingler

DVD Review: Taking Cheese to Moldy Heights!
Summary: 5 Stars

Wow, already tons has been said about this film but just to add, this DVD is very good with the special features including film historian Dave, the same guy who is much more animated in the 75th Anniversary of Dracula, does a passable run through this great Price film. Director Castle has a scene where even he says that it's better than his earlier flick, House on Haunted Hill.

And just like "House", we start off with people screaming and screaming and -- well, you better have your TV turned down or else someone's gonna call the cops! There's even an interview with one of the stars of the film, who was only added "for the teenagers."

Vincent Price is in a loveless marraige and has poured all his energies into his studies into fear -- and moonlighting as a guy doing autopsies on guys fresh from the electric chair -- gruesome!

*Spoilers*

I found it great how the director makes us think Price shot his wife -- bam! But no, it was a trick to x-ray her back and find the Tingler. She finds a way to get back at him, too.

Olly, who we think is simply the unsuspecting milk toast husband to the deaf mute wife, is actually scaring her to death, with closing windows, locked doors and buckets of blood in the bathroom (the only colorized scene). It's interesting how the director led us to believe that the whole scene was an LSD induced trick by Price, but that's not the way it was at all -- fooled me.

It's the ending that got me though. I didn't really get who was closing the windows and door as Olly tries but cannot scream as his dead wife rises from the DEAD!!

Classic B-movie for Price fans; can't replay it enough!

Also:

House on Haunted Hill
The Abominable Dr. Phibes/Dr. Phibes Rises Again!
House of Wax

DVD Review: Oh My Gosh- SCREAM FOR YOUR LIVES!!!
Summary: 5 Stars

Bill Castle's 1959 scream flick "The Tingler" is a brilliant pick for your Halloween party. It has everything you want to make you scream- including Vinny Price's voice commands, towards the end, to scream. (This film, perhaps my favorite Castle production, was producer Castle's next horror project after "The House on Haunted Hill"...also very scary.)

You'll want to watch this cult movie classic in the dark... turn out all your lights, grab some popcorn, and prepare to scream! The tingler monster is totally cool (with tentacles, lobster-like body, and cute lead wires)! The wide-eyed, screaming voice, tingler-chasing acting is brilliant (the actors certainly had fun making this one) and frightening.

The motion picture presents in monochromic black and white, except for the bright red blood- just too cool! Fiend flick fanatics will love this movie, particularly the final 10 minutes, beyond words... with screams all around! Be sure to watch the "Special Features" portion of the 1999 DVD- it adds to the mayhem (and helpfully explains "Percepto").

Oh My Gosh, "The Tingler" is loose in this review...SCREAM FOR YOUR LIVES!

DVD Review: "Spine-Tinglering Good"
Summary: 5 Stars

This movie terrorized me as a child of eight. In fact, it terrorized me so much that I watched it five times as it played at the local theater of my small town. I screamed my little head off--even when there was nothing to really scream about. It is a great horror film in black and white and only the BLOOD is in red--what a technical feat in 1957-1958! It had already played in the larger cities and those of us in small bergs had to wait and wait and wait and wait and wait and wait for it to get to our town. I stood in a long line to get tickets that first day as it played, a matinee. A whole row of girlie gigglers, we peeked between our fingers at scene after bloody scene, screaming and screaming.
Now the movie could be considerd schlock. But it is schlock at its best. If you want to have a scream--and a laugh, pick it up in time for Halloween. Vincent Price doing some of his best work--but the Tingler is a real scene-stealer.

DVD Review: If you like Vincent Price...
Summary: 4 Stars

If you're a fan of the campy Vincent Price horror genre, you will love "The Tingler". The idea here is that the tingling feeling we get when we are scared is not adrenalin after all, it is really a lobster growing on our backbones. The creature is called, surprisingly enough, the Tingler. The Tingler would continue to grow until it killed us, except for the fact that it dies (and apaprently also disappears) when it hears a scream. Pathologist Price is on the hunt to be the first to capture this creature (and with no regard for the safety of anyone). Some of the characters in this film are stranger than the Tingler - especially the owner of the movie house and his wife. Might be a little necrophilia going on here behind the curtain. Price's cheating wife is also a jewel - I'll bet you can't guess what happens to her... There is also an interesting gimmick with the film's original release, one that is fully explained in the DVD, but unfortunately not one we can share with the theatre-going audience. This is one you'll watch more than once.

DVD Review: It Tingles!
Summary: 4 Stars

The Tingler is usually considered by both critics and fans alike to be Castle's finest hour, and it's easy to see why. The Tingler is everything a good schlocky spook show should be. Price is a coroner who does research on the side involving fear and what causes us to freeze and go rigid when frightened. He refers to this force as The Tingler, and discovers that it may be an actual, physical being. He goes through numerous experiments in his attempts to learn more about The Tingler, and isn't above some pretty unorthodox methods. He threatens to shoot his unfaithful wife to try and get her to the peak of fear, he trips on LSD(which he gets via prescription. LSD was actually used for medicinal purposes at this time) to spook himself, and finally gets a stroke of luck when he meets a deaf mute. You see, The Tingler's effects are broken if you scream, because screaming breaks the tension. But a deaf mute can't scream!!! This enables Price to obtain his own Tingler which looks like a big rubber lobster/centipede hybrid. It turns out to be indestructible and too hard to handle(like The Black Crows), and gives Price a wake up call about delving into such matters. Then the Tingler gets loose and runs amok in a movie theater. Sound like fun? It is. The science is completely absurd, but when has that ever been a problem? Price seems to really be enjoying himself and as usual turns in a great performance, especially in his tripping scene. A classic for a good reason.

Description of The Tingler

Vincent Price stars as an obsessed doctor who discovers that fear 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. Terror is loose but can it be stopped? THE TINGLER is legendary horror director William Castle's magnum opus. After the success of The 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 gained some mainstream credibility by producing Rosemary's Baby.System Requirements:Running Time: 81 Min.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre:?HORROR Rating:?NR UPC:?043396077799 Manufacturer No:?07779

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