The Tingler

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The Tingler ★★★ 1959

Coroner Price discovers that a creepy creature is capable of growing on the human spine and increasing in size through fear. The only way to get rid of it is through constant screaming. Price takes what is probably the screen's first LSD trip and a partial color sequence fights nice red blood pouring from a faucet. One of Castle's cheesy best that originally wowed movie audiences in “Percepto” format, which consisted of installing electric buzzers under the seats for that true tingling sensation. 82m/B VHS, DVD . Vincent Price, Darryl Hickman, Judith Evelyn, Philip Coolidge, Patricia Cutts, Pamela Lincoln; D: William Castle; W: Robb White; C: Wilfred M. Kline; M: Von Dexter.

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