Spine-Tingling Fun Film
Vincent Price plays Dr. Warren Chapin, a pathologist that has a strong curiosity concerning fear and the sensation of a tingling spine. He's sort of a "mad scientist" character that is willing to scare himself literally to prove his theory. Using the LSD drug in order to prove that, what he calls, The Tingler exists as a real living creature that lives in all vertebrate life forms. He finds that screaming will save a person's life but if they can't scream The Tingler will emerge. Chapin himself can scream so Martha Higgins' becomes Chapin's prime subject for his research since she is a deaf mute but she has to frightened. Beware of The Tingler.
The film is extremely surreal once it gets going, the sudden red color contrasting with the B&W film looks like a dream or should I say nightmare.
I'm sure audiences in 1959 screamed, at least some did. The film in today's society may not have you screaming but it does have some eerie moments and it is loads of fun to watch.
8/10
The film is extremely surreal once it gets going, the sudden red color contrasting with the B&W film looks like a dream or should I say nightmare.
I'm sure audiences in 1959 screamed, at least some did. The film in today's society may not have you screaming but it does have some eerie moments and it is loads of fun to watch.
8/10
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