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The Tingler
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.
1959 · Directed by William Castle · 82 min · Horror · Science Fiction · 12 frames
Tagline
Ghastly Beyond Belief!
Crew
- Screenplay: Robb White
- Cinematography: Wilfrid M. Cline
- Edited by: Chester W. Schaeffer
- Music: Von Dexter
- Produced by: William Castle
Cast
- Vincent Price as Dr. Warren Chapin
- Philip Coolidge as Oliver 'Ollie' Higgins
- Judith Evelyn as Mrs. Martha Ryerson Higgins
- Darryl Hickman as David Morris
- Pamela Lincoln as Lucy Stevens
- Patricia Cutts as Isabel Stevens Chapin
- William Castle as Prologue Host (uncredited)
- Bob Gunderson as Ryerson - Screaming Convict (uncredited)
- Dal McKennon as Projectionist (uncredited)
- Leon Alton as Member of Silent Movie Audience (uncredited)
Production
- Country: United States of America
- Language: English
- Studios: Columbia Pictures, William Castle Productions
- Budget: $250,000
- Themes: adultery, deaf-mute, lsd, autopsy, cheat on husband, black and white, creature, scientist, campy, pathologist
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