

The Tingler
Ghastly Beyond Belief!
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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- Status
- Released
- Budget
- $250K
- Box office
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- Language
- English
- adultery
- deaf-mute
- lsd
- autopsy
- cheat on husband
- black and white
- creature
- scientist
- campy
- pathologist
- human experiment
- fright
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Release dates
United StatesUS
- Theatrical29 Jul 1959
- PhysicalNRVHS1 Jan 1996
United KingdomGB
- TheatricalRated X31 Mar 1960
- Physical15DVD25 Oct 1996
ArgentinaAR
- Theatrical28 Oct 1959
DenmarkDK
- Theatrical3 Nov 1961
GermanyDE
- Theatrical124 Aug 1960
- Physical1219 Aug 2016
MexicoMX
- TheatricalB16 Jan 1964
TürkiyeTR
- Theatrical26 Oct 1964
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The Tingler was released on 29 July 1959.
Audience reviews
2- D6/10
dennyjt
7/25/2022
William Castle was a master showman and this was his grandest triumph. He loved a gimmick, in this case Percepto, a device fitted beneath theater seats to enhance the climactic scenes by giving the patrons a short, sharp shock! Vincent Price, at his most maniacally deluded, is a pathologist who says he has discovered fear produces an actual physical creature that only be overcome by the release of a scream. He hopes …
- S7/10
Sierbahnn
5/5/2026
There's something to be said about line delivery in horror movies when the lines aren't panicked and screaming, but understated and build tension rather than relieve it. The conceit of this plot is ludicrous, of course, but it is fifties surrealism and it has a meta concept to it, which is very weird and rewarding. The movie is quite a little gem for its genre and I highly recommend it.
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