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Terrible acting, screenplay and direction.

It's no definitive masterpiece but it's damn close.

The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.

It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

Generally, I like William Castle films, but this one seems to be a Castle gimmick looking for a plot. It's generally pretty weak on that, even with good performances by Price and Judith Evelyn. I will say Castle did a pretty good job making Price the red herring here, and not completely sympathetic. Other than that, it's a weak entry for him of his earlier work in horror, nowhere near the campiness of House on Haunted Hill, or the bizarre, twisted but fun Homicidal.

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.

Director William Castle and star Vincent Price reunite in this memorable thriller. Price plays Dr. Warren Chapin, a pathologist who performs autopsies at the prison following executions. He has formulated a theory that a creature(called a Tingler) exists within each of us, feeding off the fear generated in times of stress, and can only be relieved by screaming. He shares this idea with Oliver Higgens(played by Philip Coolidge) who was attending an execution. His wife is a deaf-mute, unable to scream, which makes her a most convenient subject for a cruel experiment...They also manage a movie theater, and when a Tingler gets loose, film-goers can only escape by screaming! Fun thriller may have a preposterous plot, but is most clever in execution, with a good cast and fitting end.

I had the distinct pleasure of catching this at the Edinburgh Dead by Dawn festival for the first time and wasn't prepared at just how much fun it was. While essentially a silly cheese laden b horror, it's also a surprisingly layered film in terms of plot development and its main premise- Vincent Price's slightly unethical doctor discovers a parasite who feeds off of our fears- would be right at home in any 70s Cronenberg film. The characters themselves reveal themselves to be wholly unscrupulous whenever it suits them, and it even has Vincent Price tripping on acid! Speaking of which there's a very clever and well made for its time hallucinatory sequence which actually holds up well today still.And that's not even taking into consideration the whole amount of gimmicky fun that goes with it. I've always shamefully had little interest in horror pre '68 (some exceptions like Psycho to the rule and mea culpa) but films like The Tingler have me kicking myself for having such disinterest as for me, this was a campy schlocky but surprisingly clever little gem and I'm delighted I got to see it for the first time in a theater. 8/10, great little film.