Horror ·Science Fiction · United States of America · 1959 · 1h 22m

The Tingler

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Director
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
Crew
Wilfrid M. Cline — Director of Photography Chester W. Schaeffer — Editor Von Dexter — Original Music Composer Robb White — Screenplay William Castle — Producer
Tagline

Ghastly Beyond Belief!

Synopsis

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.

Trailer The Tingler — Official Trailer
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Mood & Themes
adulterydeaf-mutelsdautopsycheat on husbandblack and whitecreaturepathologisthuman experimentfrightadulterous wifespinal column
Key Collaborators
William Castle Director Wilfrid M. Cline Director of Photography Chester W. Schaeffer Editor Von Dexter Original Music Composer Robb White Screenplay William Castle Producer
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