The Tingler
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Movie Reviews of The Tingler
Movie Review: This movies is a scream...in more ways than one.
Summary: 5 Stars
I admit it! I am a sucker for old Black and White horror films. They are quite tame by today's buckets of bloody special effect big budgets ones, but they hold a fun all their own. Especially when the ringmaster is the oh so talented Vincent Price. He was always the odd mix of silky mannered menace, with that sprinkle of humour that set him apart from so many actors. It was that devilish twinkle in his eye that always told you he enjoyed what he was doing.The Tingler is another of the Castle low budget treats. Price plays a mild mannered doctor/research scientist married to a rich wife who is a floozy. She runs around on Price, cares little that he knows it, controls her younger sister's life, but Price is not a man you push too far. Obsessed with discovered the results fear has on the body, he finds out there is a critter that increases in our bodies when we are frightened, the more fear the bigger and stronger it grows and the only thing that can destroy it is screaming. Feed up with his wife's wicked ways, he convinces her he is going to kill her so he can X-ray her trying to prove the existence of the Tingler.
Price gets mixed up with Olly, a husband of a theatre owner who is a deaf-mute. She goes bonkers and passes out when she sees blood. Price wonders what would happen in her, if the Tingler is unleashed, but she cannot scream. Later, someone deliberately scares her to death, and Price operates and removed the Tingler. But then, wife tries to use the Tingler to strangle Price...all in good loving fun, mind you. The pesky beastie dashes off and heads to the theatre to menace everyone there.
One note, though the film was shot in Black and White, the sequence where Olly's wife is driven to death was shot in colour emphasize the red of the blood scaring her.
Great fun and it's a bit of a walk down memory lane! A must for any fan of Castle or Price.
Movie Review: As a Kid This is the ONLY Horror Movie That Ever Truly Scared Me Totally
Summary: 5 Stars
I was a kid around 8 to 10 years old when I first watched this movie. I had seen House on Haunted Hill the old Vinent Price Version and Tingler not too long after. Now being autistic and disabled I had lots of hospital visits growing up so medicine, doctors and the mysteries of the body was never far from my mind.
Seeing and hearing about the Tingler made my little kid skin crawl. Add that to the human skeleton coming out of that water in House on Haunted Hill and this dude was set! My grandmother left a closet door open that had dry cleaning on it and in the bright moonlight night the plastic reflected the moonlight. From my vantage point it was just enough to put me in mind of the bones and tingler dude had a Nightmare so bad my parents insisted I stay home from school that next day.
Oh I look at Tingler now and laugh a little but, there is always that place inside me where the Tingler made its mark. I have watched thousands of horror movies since first seeing the Tingler and I laugh at most of them no matter how gore filled they are. What made Tingler so good was not the monster. Tingler has a strong psychological horror story sub-plot attached to it. Tingler made me think about the nature of fear and its effects on the body. Another thing that just creeps me out is that Tingler has strong Film Noir elements that just makes even its most outragous moments feel just a bit too real.
Vincemt Price was at the top of his form in Tingler. For an old Movie Tingler still has its bite. This film would have just been another bad B horror movie had it not been for the serially creepy intonations and hard psychotically mad doctor ghoulish features of one Vincent Price.
Movie Review: CASTLE AND PRICE AT THEIR BEST....
Summary: 5 Stars
Two horror masters are at work here. William Castle presenting one of his most outlandish and original films and Vincent Price at his least hammy best as a doctor who discovers "the fear factor". The "factor" being a slimy looking centipede-like creature that grows on peoples' spines when they become frightened. If the person doesn't scream (destroying the creature) they will die. The doctor even experiments with LSD in a bizarre sequence to induce fear in himself. The most memorable sequence is still the color one. In a subplot, a theater manager with a mute wife who suffers from OCD plans to kill her for her money by scaring her to death. The wife (a great Judith Evelyn) is alone in the apartment and is assaulted with ghoulish horrors like an axe being hurled at her, her death certificate on the bathroom medicine cabinet, the bathtub filled with blood with a bloody hand and arm reaching out of it for her, the taps running blood, etc. This is done in color for maximum effect and the poor wife dies from fright because she cannot scream---being mute. This is where Price discovers "the tingler". Impulsively, he does an illegal autopsy on the woman and finds the creature attached to her spine and removes it. It later escapes into the theater filled with people and Price gets on the horn and exhorts them to "Scream! Scream for your lives! The tingler is loose in this very theater!" Of course this is where Castles' gimmick of "Percepto" came in. The seats in theaters showing "The Tingler" were wired to produce mild shocks to patrons at key horror moments. How can you top that? "The Tingler" is great fun from start to finish. Pure entertainment and Castle at his morbidly lurid best.Movie Review: Ridiculous AND Sublime
Summary: 5 Stars
To call William Castle's "The Tingler" cheesy would be an oxymoron. William Castle made cheesy movies that flagrantly thumbed their noses at common sense and believability. They were brazenly ludicrous "B" films that didn't pretend to be anything else (like "The Sixth Sense"). However, "The Tingler" and "House on Haunted Hill" both starred a class act, Vincent Price. Mr. Price took hammy acting and transformed it into performance art. The scene in "The Tingler" where he has a VERY bad acid trip defies description. My friends and I screech with laughter just thinking about it-Vincent was great. The fact that William Castle couldn't possibly explain how his screen villains pulled off all of their "scare tactics" on their hapless victims doesn't matter-they are so SHAMELESSLY UNBELIEVABLE that you have to laugh-and you do! "The Tingler" looks and sounds great in the DVD format-and the documentary about this camp classic is extremely enjoyable-Darryl Hickman, in particular, is quite charming and funny. "The Tingler" and the original "House on Haunted Hill" are must-have DVDs, if you are a fan of silly and enjoyable horror flicks. Hooray!Movie Review: A classic film about fear
Summary: 5 Stars
"The Tingler" (1959 - 82 minutes - B&W), is a classic of horror and
science fiction produced and directed by the remarkable master William
Castle, who was known for setting tricks in the cinema rooms in fifties
and sixties in order to interact the audience with the film. (In "The
Tigler", Castle placed an equipment, the "Percepto", inside the cinema
armchairs so that, when the audience shouts during the movie, they felt
a shock).
In this masterpiece, Vincent Price is Dr. Warren Chapin, an obstinate
doctor of legal medicine who discovers that fear causes the "tingler
effect" with the growth of a parasitic creature near the vertebral
column. Chapin could isolate and remove the creature of a deaf and dumb
woman (the actress Judith Evelyn) but the "thing" escapes and runs away
to a full cinema. A way to defeat the creature is to shout loud.
According to John Waters, of the "Film Comment", the film shows the
first citation of LSD of the cinema. The writer Robb White had heard
about the lisergic acid from Aldous Huxley, he went to the UCLA to try
the drug in himself (before it became illegal) and then he introduced
the drug in the story.