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Release year: 1959

Storyline

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

Top credits

Directors

William Castle

Writers

Robb White

Cast

Vincent Price — Dr. Warren Chapin
Judith Evelyn — Mrs. Martha Ryerson Higgins
Darryl Hickman — David Morris
Patricia Cutts — Isabel Stevens Chapin

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Did you know

• Pamela Lincoln and Darryl Hickman, who play the young suitors, actually got married on November 28th after the Tingler release on July 29th 1959. They had two children, and divorced on December 8th, 1982.

• The earliest mainstream film to depict an LSD trip.

• William Castle toyed with other ideas to frighten audience members, in addition to 'percepto'; among them: rolling bean bags to brush against the legs of audience members, speakers mounted at different areas that would give a 'screech' when the tingler appeared, and possibly even using 'shills' to operate some type of mechanical device to tickle the legs of the audience members; but the only viable way of doing it was by attaching buzzers in select seats to coincide with the appearance of the tingler- 'percepto'.