The Tingler
Ghastly Beyond Belief!
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
- Signature
- Tension · Wonder · Craft
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16 billed performers
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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.
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Box Office & Release
- Budget
- $250,000
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- Release date
- Jul 29, 1959
- Runtime
- 1h 22m
- MPAA rating
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- Language
- English
- Country
- United States of America
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