The Tingler

Jul 29, 1959

1h 22m

★ 6.4

Ghastly Beyond Belief!

Overview

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.

Genres

Horror

Science Fiction

Production Companies

Columbia Pictures

William Castle Productions

The Tingler Trailers

Cast

Dr. Warren Chapin

Vincent Price

Oliver 'Ollie' Higgins

Philip Coolidge

Mrs. Martha Ryerson Higgins

Judith Evelyn

David Morris

Darryl Hickman

Lucy Stevens

Pamela Lincoln

Isabel Stevens Chapin

Patricia Cutts

Prologue Host (uncredited)

William Castle

Ryerson - Screaming Convict (uncredited)

Bob Gunderson

Projectionist (uncredited)

Dal McKennon

Member of Silent Movie Audience (uncredited)

Leon Alton

Member of Silent Movie Audience (uncredited)

Gertrude Astor

David Kinemon (archive footage) (uncredited)

Richard Barthelmess

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