Story Line
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.
“Ghastly Beyond Belief!”
Top 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
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Rating
6.4/ 10
Release Date
1959-07-29
Runtime
1h 22m
Genres
HorrorScience Fiction
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User Reviews (2)

dennyjt
6/10
•7/25/2022William 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 ...

Sierbahnn
7/10
•5/5/2026There'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 a...






