“The Tingler” is more likely to elicit laughter than screams, but apparently a malformed plastic crustacean on a string actually scared some audiences in the 1950s. The premise is that a parasite grows large and attaches itself to the spine when a person experiences extreme fear and will actually kill the person unless he or she screams, which at least temporarily, neutralizes the “tingler.” If you’re a big Vincent Price fan, you’ll want to watch to see him take an LSD trip into fear, although this film falls well short of his best horror movies, such as “House on Haunted Hill” and “The Wax Museum.” Price is the only redeeming value of “The Tingler,” but even he can’t save this movie from a poor script, daft dialogue and generally bad acting. (82 min.)
1959
Starring:
Vincent Price
Judith Evelyn
Darryl Hickman
Patricia Cutts
Pamela Lincoln
Philip Coolidge
Director:
William Castle
Writer:
Robb White
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