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.
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The Tingler is a 1959 American horror film produced and directed by William Castle. It is the third of five collaborations between Castle and writer Robb White, and starring Vincent Price. It follows a pathologist, Dr. Warren Chapin, who discovers a parasitic creature called the "tingler" that grows stronger when its host experiences fear. The plot unfolds as he investigates the death of a mute woman who cannot scream, leading to a series of terrifying events involving the creature that ultimately escapes into a movie theater, where chaos ensues as the audience must scream to survive.
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- Director
- William Castle
- Starring
- Vincent Price, Philip Coolidge, Judith Evelyn, Darryl Hickman, Pamela Lincoln, Patricia Cutts, William Castle, Bob Gunderson
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