Tingler may refer to: . who was running an experiment on lysergic acid [LSD]. He theorizes that screaming is the only thing that can stop it (becoming an early champion of primal scream therapy in the process) and names it the "tingler," after the tingles one feels in a state of terror. Whenever blood-curdling screams occurred in the movie, hidden buzzers vibrated the seats. The Tingler. Ollie asks William for a ride into town, where he and his deaf-mute wife Martha run a silent movie theater. The film ends with the offscreen voice of Vincent Price as "William" telling the audience that if they are still unconvinced about the existence of the tingler, the next time they are frightened, they should refrain from screaming. A remake of The Tingler is slated for a 2009 release. This enjoyable tongue in-cheek horror movie sees horror legend Vincent Price perfectly cast as Dr. Warren Chapin, who discovers the overgrown insect-like Tingler of the title. That it's strong enough to shatter the spinal column we know. As famous for the gimmick with which the film was shown as for its genuinely spine-tingling story, The Tingler follows a pathologist (Vincent Price) as he searches for the cause of a series of deaths and discovers that the victims have a large insect-like creature growing on their spinal chords. As William senses the walls closing in on him, he screams, then collapses. The Percepto gimmick cost an additional $250,000 to implement. DR. WARREN CHAPIN: Things were pretty foggy, but I remember thinking that I mustn't scream. DAVID MORRIS: A deaf mute can't scream. ISABEL CHAPIN (Patricia Cutts): You know Warren – you've lost contact with living people. We can't destroy it because we've removed it from its natural place. When a hand emerges from the gory ooze, Martha, unable to scream, dies from fright. It was carefully timed to a key scene where the tingler crawls across the projector lens just before the screen goes black and the booming voice of Vincent Price entreats audiences not to panic, but to "Scream - scream for your lives!" Tingler, The (1959) - Something Must Have Terrified Her Big moment as Dr. Chapin (Vincent Price), debriefing Ollie (Philip Coolidge), who seems to be taking the death of his wife coolly, finally discovers the beast, in William Castle's The Tingler, 1959. His films are about stories, pretty good ones at that. If any of you are not convinced that you have a tingler of your own, the next time you're frightened in the dark... don't scream. DR. WARREN CHAPIN: Exactly. Isabel then apologizes to William for her earlier behavior and suggests that they have a drink to celebrate his success. Realizing that Ollie was responsible for Martha's death, William goes to his apartment, where he finds the mask and hand stuffed in a suitcase. Upon arriving at the theater, Ollie invites William to join him and Martha for coffee. A young lady has fainted. American Science Fiction Movies of the Fifties. ISABEL CHAPIN: Suicide? The Tingler is a 1959 American horror film produced and directed by William Castle. The Tingler is legendary horror director William Castle's magnum opus. Although the film was shot in black-and-white, the blood in the bathtub sequence is colored a bright red. It's easy to make fun of Price -- and well justified -- but he had an undeniably unique presence, and it's the rare Price thriller that isn't buoyed by his participation. Starring: Vincent Price, Judith Evelyn, Darryl Hickman, Patricia Cutts, Pamela Lincoln. In House on Haunted Hill, Castle had theaters rig skeletons to glide over the heads of the audience at a certain point in the film. Also noteworthy as likely the earliest film depicting an LSD trip. Step Right Up! "Despite Castle's ponderous, pedestrian direction, in which everything is spelled out 1-2-3, The Tingler overall is one of his most entertaining films. This object, labeled a 'tingler,' is supposedly a tangible mass of flesh incorporating the zone of human fear and, we are told, residing in each of us. He has a theory that fear is the result of a creature that inhabits all of us. According to an August 1959 Hollywood Reporter news item, the success of the Percepto screening in Detroit and Baltimore prompted Castle to order 100,000 units to be used in future bookings. – a gimmick director/producer Castle billed as 'Percepto.' After giving her an injection to "relax" her, William sends Ollie to the pharmacy to fill a prescription for sleeping pills. The fainter would also be a plant, of course. A delicious plateful of cinematic cheese, William Castle's "The Tingler" is a silly, fun, ridiculous, and totally watchable horror film. Why did Dr Chapin put the tingler back into Martha's body? Scream for your lives! The Tingler has all the necessary ingredients for a good William Castle movie: a goofy premise, a tone that is both camp and macabre, a great cast, and an outrageous marketing gimmick. After Isabel awakens in a rage and storms out, William decides to create the tingler in a controlled experiment. DR. WARREN CHAPIN: Just because poison happens to exist, is no excuse to commit murder with it. Starring: Vincent Price, Judith Evelyn, Darryl Hickman, Patricia Cutts, Pamela Lincoln. When David comes to pick up Lucy, William recounts Martha's psychosomatic blackout and suggests that the only way to isolate the physical mechanism of fear is to put someone into an extreme state of terror. Used a couple of theater gimmicks. Upon entering his fiancée's family mansion, a man discovers a savage family curse and fears that his future brother-in-law has entombed his bride-to-be prematurely.