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The Tingler (DVD, 1999, Multiple Languages) 
The Tingler (DVD, 1999, Multiple Languages)

 
The Tingler (DVD, 1999, Multiple Languages)

Leading Role: Vincent Price
Director: William Castle
Rating: Not Rated
Release Date: Sep 1999
Format: DVD
Additional Info: Multiple Languages
UPC: 043396077799
Product ID: EPID3272194
Description: This delightful gimmick film from producer-director William Castle stars Vincent Price as Dr. Chapin, a scientist who discovers a caterpillarlike parasite that grows in the human spine when someone is afraid and that, unless they scream,...
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This delightful gimmick film from producer-director William Castle stars Vincent Price as Dr. Chapin, a scientist who discovers a caterpillarlike parasite that grows in the human spine when someone is afraid and that, unless they scream, can grow large enough to kill them. He solemnly dubs this creature the tingler. Philip Coolidge plays the owner of a nearby cinema who befriends the doctor and whose deaf-mute wife suddenly receives all sorts of shocks, like the sight of a bathtub full of blood with a hand reaching out from it. Since she can't scream, she dies, and Chapin gets his hands on her oversize tingler. When it eventually escapes inside the movie theater, the film within the film, and then the film itself, stops for an announcement from Price, out of character, urging the audience to scream their heads off. Castle originally had random seats in theaters equipped to deliver small electric shocks at this key moment, and he hired women to faint and ushers to carry them out, all in his determination to get the audience to scream. Even without all the ballyhoo it's a fun film, a delightful relic from the days of the gimmick.

Credits
Writer:Robb White
Producer:William Castle
Cast:Darryl Hickman, Judith Evelyn, Pamela Lincoln, Patricia Cutts

Details
Edition:Multiple Languages

Notes
DVD Features:

Region 1 Encoding
Keep Case
"Scream For Your Life" Featurette
An Original William Castle Drive-In Sequence, Theatrical release: March 9, 1960, in New York City, at the top of a double bill. (It played with the Italian film THE WARRIOR AND THE SLAVE GIRL.)

This film is notable for cult film fans as an early example of cinematic drug use as Price's character injects himself with LSD in an experiment.

Although the film was shot in black and white, it features one creepy color sequence that is all white except for a blood-filled bathtub.

The silent film screened in the theater is Henry King's TOL'ABLE DAVID.

Producer-director William Castle was famous for using various gimmicks to attract audiences to his horror films, and THE TINGLER was no exception. During the film's initial release, it featured Percepto--electric, vibrating motors were placed underneath certain theater chairs and viewers sitting in those spots received a tingling sensation at certain points in the movie. In a prologue, Castle told audiences that not everybody would be affected by the tingler--which explained why only certain viewers would feel the sensation. (Of course, in reality, the real reason not everybody could feel the vibration was that it would have cost too much time and money to wire each and every seat.)

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