The Tingler
“Ghastly Beyond Belief!”
1959•NR•1h 22m•6.4•Released
HorrorScience Fiction
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.
Director
William Castle
Writer
Robb White
Budget
$0M
Languages
English
Studio
Columbia Pictures
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
William Castle
Prologue Host (uncredited)
Bob Gunderson
Ryerson - Screaming Convict (uncredited)
Dal McKennon
Projectionist (uncredited)
Leon Alton
Member of Silent Movie Audience (uncredited)
Gertrude Astor
Member of Silent Movie Audience (uncredited)
Richard Barthelmess
David Kinemon (archive footage) (uncredited)
Gail Bonney
Member of Silent Movie Audience (uncredited)
Pat Colby
Member of Silent Movie Audience (uncredited)
George DeNormand
Member of Silent Movie Audience (uncredited)
Production
Company
Columbia Pictures
Company
William Castle Productions
Producer
William Castle
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