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The Tingler

Ghastly Beyond Belief!

1959 · NR · 1h 22m

Directed by William Castle

6.4

TMDB audience score
209 votes, out of 10

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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.

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Cast

  • Vincent Price
    Dr. Warren Chapin

  • Philip Coolidge
    Oliver 'Ollie' Higgins

  • Judith Evelyn
    Mrs. Martha Ryerson Higgins

  • Darryl Hickman
    David Morris

  • Pamela Lincoln
    Lucy Stevens

  • Patricia Cutts
    Isabel Stevens Chapin

  • William Castle
    Prologue Host (uncredited)

  • Bob Gunderson
    Ryerson - Screaming Convict (uncredited)

  • Dal McKennon
    Projectionist (uncredited)

  • Leon Alton
    Member of Silent Movie Audience (uncredited)

  • Gertrude Astor
    Member of Silent Movie Audience (uncredited)

  • Richard Barthelmess
    David Kinemon (archive footage) (uncredited)

  • Gail Bonney
    Member of Silent Movie Audience (uncredited)

  • Pat Colby
    Member of Silent Movie Audience (uncredited)

  • George DeNormand
    Member of Silent Movie Audience (uncredited)

  • Amy Fields
    Member of Silent Movie Audience (uncredited)

  • Clarence Straight
    Member of Silent Movie Audience (uncredited)

  • Ernest Torrence
    Luke Hatburn (archive footage) (uncredited)