The Tingler

From The Grindhouse Cinema Database

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Main Details

  • Released in 1959
  • B & W
  • Running Time: 82 Min.
  • Production Co: William Castle Productions
  • Distribution Co: Columbia Pictures (1959) (USA) (theatrical)
  • Directed by William Castle
  • Written by Robb White
  • Starring Vincent Price, Judith Evelyn, Darryl Hickman
  • Produced by William Castle
  • Original Music by Von Dexter
  • Cinematography by Wilfred M. Cline
  • Film Editing by Chester W. Schaeffer

Plot Summary

  • An obsessed pathologist discovers and captures a parasitic creature that grows when fear grips its host.

Also Known As

  • Gyseren (Denmark)
  • Il mostro di sangue (Italy)
  • Le désosseur de cadavres (France)
  • Schrei, wenn der Tingler kommt (Germany)
  • Värisyttäjä (Finland)

Taglines

  • In Screamarama
  • Amazing NEW TERROR Device Makes You A Living Participant in the FLESH-CRAWLING ACTION! PERCEPTO!
  • Ghastly Beyond Belief!
  • Do you have the guts to sit in this chair?
  • Can You Take PERCEPTO?
  • BRING YOUR DATE AND WATCH HER TINGLE!
  • SEE - The screen's first BLOOD BATH IN COLOR!
  • When the screen screams you'll scream too...if you value your life!
  • Fright-Filled SHOCK Thriller!
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