The Tingler (Blu-ray)
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Blu-ray Details
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 22 minutes
- Video: Black & White
- Encoding: Region A
- Released: September 11, 2018
- Originally Released: 2018
- Label: Shout Factory
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Vincent Price & Judith Evelyn | |
Performer: | Pamela Lincoln, Patricia Cutts, Philip Coolidge & Darryl Hickman | |
Directed by | William Castle | |
Edited by | Chester W. Schaeffer | |
Screenwriting by | Robb White | |
Composition by | Von Dexter | |
Art Direction by | Phillip Bennett | |
Produced by | William Castle | |
Director of Photography: | Wilfrid M. Cline |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 3/4 --
Perhaps William Castle's most outrageous film, The Tingler also stands as one of his best.
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Creative Loafing
Rating: 3/5 --
Better than average Castle thriller with a wonderfully campy Vincent Price.
Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
Rating: 3/5 --
Real shock schlock.
Your Movies (cleveland.com)
...More comic than horrific, THE TINGLER is still a scream... -- Critic's Choice
New York Times
Rating: 3/4 --
Well-made, and anyone with an appreciation for the fright flicks of yesteryear will certainly recognize it as a work of significant note.
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Aisle Seat
Like any genius pitchman, Castle straddles the line between carnival barker and conceptual artist
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CinePassion
Rating: 3/5 --
A wonderful William Castle excursion, that is best seen in theaters unless you can wire your seats at home.
Journal and Courier (Lafayette, IN)
Product Description:
This delightful gimmick film from producer-director William Castle stars Vincent Price as Dr. Chapin, a scientist who discovers a caterpillarlike parasite that grows in the human spine when someone is afraid and that, unless they scream, can grow large enough to kill them. He solemnly dubs this creature the tingler. Philip Coolidge plays the owner of a nearby cinema who befriends the doctor and whose deaf-mute wife suddenly receives all sorts of shocks, like the sight of a bathtub full of blood with a hand reaching out from it. Since she can't scream, she dies, and Chapin gets his hands on her oversize tingler. When it eventually escapes inside the movie theater, the film within the film, and then the film itself, stops for an announcement from Price, out of character, urging the audience to scream their heads off. Castle originally had random seats in theaters equipped to deliver small electric shocks at this key moment, and he hired women to faint and ushers to carry them out, all in his determination to get the audience to scream. Even without all the ballyhoo it's a fun film, a delightful relic from the days of the gimmick.