*Spoiler/plot- The Tingler, 195? A morgue scientist has a theory about a invisible creature that effects people to death when they cannot scream to express their fright. This creature kills people by breaking their spine.*Special Stars- Vincent Price. DIR: William Castle.*Theme- Science helps mankind.*Trivia/location/goofs- B&W. 3-D. William Castle was the 50's film producer that had many different gimmicks in the theaters to add to the film going experience. With the screening of this film, certain theater seats were wired with lox voltage shocks for the seated film watcher to feel and react to with their loud screams during specific terrifying times of the film's gruesome crime scenes.*Emotion- A great and fast paced film. Would be nice to see it in 3-D and have the theater seat wired for that special effect. Quite fun.*Based On- 50's film going race.

Vincent Price & William Castle unite to being us The Tingler.Vincent Price at the height of his iconic status teams up with William Castle milking the icon of horror success with this campy horror movie. Price plays up the campy very well and you feel like he's having a lot of fun in the role.the movie's opening title sequence with was actually the scariest part with William Castle introducing the movie and telling the audience to scream if they feel like it. Otherwise, the movie is best enjoyed from the campyness of the the monster.The monster concept was pretty good. Vincent Price plays a doctor who believes that fear is not just a emotion but an actual living thing he called the Tingler, his theory is proved to be right when he finds a Death and mute woman unable express her fear like others with screaming. Once again, William Castle uses audience participation for the movie, although I this time it transfer better onto DVD.The movie was very entertaining to watch not really for it's horror but for being campy.

This is a William Castle movie and if you don't know who he is then please look him up as possibly one of the best director, producer, screenwriters the horror industry has ever had. Hitchcock has real competition here.This is a very well written and directed and more believable movie than most of our current talent in his category. Castle was known for his "gimmicks" as seen before this movies even starts. So he has lost some respect of movies goers. But not the real fans of horror.On this film he uses one of his "gimmicks" at the start of the movie, but backs it up will a real horror film. I am a huge fan of horror movies in all the decades. If you want to see a movie that does not rely on a woman running and falling down because she tripped on a pebble, or the bad guy getting a small stab wound and "OK we can forget about him" so he gets up later. If you want to see a movies and bear in mind it is from 1959, that does not try to insult you just by watching it with predictable endings and lazy writing that makes no sense. Than watch this movie and then you will want to see the rest of Castle's movies.Having said that I am a fan of stupid horror moves, but people like Castle and Hitchcock, we should all watch and know want real horror movies, be as it is in decades past should be looked up to and respected.This movies is worth watching, it is not "Michael Mires" scary as in the first "Halloween". But it does deserve respect and I would like to see more of the true effort put into this movie to make it "scary" in its day, in new films.But just my opinion, Oy

I very much enjoy old-fashioned Horror films; even the REALLY old, OLD Classics such as 'THE MUMMY' (1932) 'THE BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN' (1935) and even 'THE OLD DARK HOUSE' (1932) were great! And many of the Horror films of the 1940's such as 'THE WOLFMAN', etc. and the later Corman / Price Poe films are quite good, not to mention the excellent HAMMER films. But... honestly, the direction, writing, and ESPECIALLY acting in this one was quite honestly almost painful to watch. The acting was so bad that it quite literally took me out of the film. ALL 3 of the women in the film are such TERRIBLE actresses that I am surprised that any of them got hired at all. And the one playing the deaf wife was just about one of THE most truly AWFUL actresses that I have ever seen. So overplayed and overdone. I honestly think that the movie could have been pretty good if they had just written it better. Price has always leaned heavily toward the hammy side, but the dialog that he was given in this film was truly pushing the limits.Old Horror films are great; and this one SORT OF has an interesting premise (and of course, as usual, some great Castle gimmick) but unless you really like VERY corny Horror films, maybe just for the 'charm' of the time period or perhaps the nostalgic value, this one, sadly, does NOT seem to hold up very well at all.