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Summary: Campy Castle Classic Literally Sends Chills Up Your Spine...
Review: ...done in Midnight Moovy/William Castle black and white, this is a flick that truly has some crrrrreeeeepy moments as well as
moments that are just plain funny--like when the Tingler is supposed to be crawling across the moovy screen in your friendly neighborhood theatre. Legend has it that when the electro-shock under the seats did not work, the Castle folks encouraged the moovy theatre owners to hire regular real people to scream and faint so that the moovy will be stopped the lights would be turned on and the ushers would escort the fainted folks to the lobby. All this for effect. Anyway, Price is at his best here.
Enjoy with your family.
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Summary: "SCREAM!....SCREAM FOR YOUR LIVES!"
Review: Another "gimmick" film from producer/director William Castle. He made this movie great fun to watch in the theatre in 1959; a process called "Percepto" caused certain seats in the theatre to give mild shocks to the people sitting in them! But in to the story....Vincent Price (always fun!) is a doctor who discovers that when a person is terrified, as large insect=like creature grows on their spinal cords. It pinches their nerves and kills them if they don't kill it first. The movie is famous for Price letting one of the "Tinglers" loose in a movie theatre....He tells everyone to scream or they will die!
There are some wild scenes in this movie like a deaf-mute woman being scared to death when she sees a zombie and a bathtub of blood with a hand in it....and there's a great scene of Price tripping after doing aaa hallucingenic drug...Great fun and the classic 50s science fiction movie. Too bad "Percepto" is no longer used...
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Summary: This movies is a scream...in more ways than one.
Review: I admit it! I am a sucker for old Black and White horror films. They are quite tame by today's buckets of bloody special effect big budgets ones, but they hold a fun all their own. Especially when the ringmaster is the oh so talented Vincent Price. He was always the odd mix of silky mannered menace, with that sprinkle of humour that set him apart from so many actors. It was that devilish twinkle in his eye that always told you he enjoyed what he was doing. The Tingler is another of the Castle low budget treats. Price plays a mild mannered doctor/research scientist married to a rich wife who is a floozy. She runs around on Price, cares little that he knows it, controls her younger sister's life, but Price is not a man you push too far. Obsessed with discovered the results fear has on the body, he finds out there is a critter that increases in our bodies when we are frightened, the more fear the bigger and stronger it grows and the only thing that can destroy it is screaming. Feed up with his wife's wicked ways, he convinces her he is going to kill her so he can X-ray her trying to prove the existence of the Tingler. Price gets mixed up with Olly, a husband of a theatre owner who is a deaf-mute. She goes bonkers and passes out when she sees blood. Price wonders what would happen in her, if the Tingler is unleashed, but she cannot scream. Later, someone deliberately scares her to death, and Price operates and removed the Tingler. But then, wife tries to use the Tingler to strangle Price...all in good loving fun, mind you. The pesky beastie dashes off and heads to the theatre to menace everyone there. One note, though the film was shot in Black and White, the sequence where Olly's wife is driven to death was shot in colour emphasize the red of the blood scaring her. Great fun and it's a bit of a walk down memory lane! A must for any fan of Castle or Price.
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Summary: This movies is a scream...in more ways than one.
Review: I admit it! I am a sucker for old Black and White horror films. They are quite tame by today's buckets of bloody special effect big budgets ones, but they hold a fun all their own. Especially when the ringmaster is the oh so talented Vincent Price. He was always the odd mix of silky mannered menace, with that sprinkle of humour that set him apart from so many actors. It was that devilish twinkle in his eye that always told you he enjoyed what he was doing. The Tingler is another of the Castle low budget treats. Price plays a mild mannered doctor/research scientist married to a rich wife who is a floozy. She runs around on Price, cares little that he knows it, controls her younger sister's life, but Price is not a man you push too far. Obsessed with discovered the results fear has on the body, he finds out there is a critter that increases in our bodies when we are frightened, the more fear the bigger and stronger it grows and the only thing that can destroy it is screaming. Feed up with his wife's wicked ways, he convinces her he is going to kill her so he can X-ray her trying to prove the existence of the Tingler. Price gets mixed up with Olly, a husband of a theatre owner who is a deaf-mute. She goes bonkers and passes out when she sees blood. Price wonders what would happen in her, if the Tingler is unleashed, but she cannot scream. Later, someone deliberately scares her to death, and Price operates and removed the Tingler. But then, wife tries to use the Tingler to strangle Price...all in good loving fun, mind you. The pesky beastie dashes off and heads to the theatre to menace everyone there. One note, though the film was shot in Black and White, the sequence where Olly's wife is driven to death was shot in colour emphasize the red of the blood scaring her. Great fun and it's a bit of a walk down memory lane! A must for any fan of Castle or Price.
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Summary: William Castle is at it again - this time with "Percepto!"
Review: I enjoy hearing about the gimmicks William Castle used in his horror films. For "The Tingler" every few seats in the theater were rigged to vibrate at certain times so that its unlucky occupent would feel a tingling sensation and think they were being attacked by The Tingler! (This was called Percepto.) There's also one scene with a lot of bright-red blood (the rest of the picture is in black and white). And near the end of the movie "The Tingler" finally attacks YOU - the audience! - and you must listen to Vincent Price's instructions or you'll never be rid of it! The DVD includes a nice little 15-minute or so behind-the-scenes look at the movie, featuring Darryl Hickman (Dave). His recollections of William Castle and the plastic Tingler creature used in the movie are especially funny. There's also the drive-in version of the narration in the scene where you are attacked by The Tingler. And the trailer is fun to watch. If you like this, go out and get "13 Ghosts" and "House on Haunted Hill" - and pray that they don't try to remake any more of these movies!
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Summary: William Castle is at it again - this time with "Percepto!"
Review: I enjoy hearing about the gimmicks William Castle used in his horror films. For "The Tingler" every few seats in the theater were rigged to vibrate at certain times so that its unlucky occupent would feel a tingling sensation and think they were being attacked by The Tingler! (This was called Percepto.) There's also one scene with a lot of bright-red blood (the rest of the picture is in black and white). And near the end of the movie "The Tingler" finally attacks YOU - the audience! - and you must listen to Vincent Price's instructions or you'll never be rid of it! The DVD includes a nice little 15-minute or so behind-the-scenes look at the movie, featuring Darryl Hickman (Dave). His recollections of William Castle and the plastic Tingler creature used in the movie are especially funny. There's also the drive-in version of the narration in the scene where you are attacked by The Tingler. And the trailer is fun to watch. If you like this, go out and get "13 Ghosts" and "House on Haunted Hill" - and pray that they don't try to remake any more of these movies!
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Summary: A Scream May Save Your Life
Review: I honestly don't know if this movie was supposed to be horror, or comedy. I'd say a little bit of both? I really liked this movie. Vincent Price is again excellent! Throughout most of the movie he is trying to discover what makes people fearful & what causes them to scream. Well, he soons finds out as he removes The Tingler from a corpse. Also, there is an interesting plot twist. Ooh, also watch as Vincent has a bad trip on some "acid"! Oh, and yes, at one point of the movie you can see the string to The Tingler. Either way, it's still a fun movie to watch. I wish I could've seen it in theaters!
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Summary: classic Vincent Price
Review: I saw this movie on TV when I was about 6 years old and it scared the hell out of me. Horror movies haven't really scared me in a long time but I still think this one is way cool. The premise of this film is completely absurd, yet wildly original. I almost want to call it surrealistic. Vincent Price is at his very best in this one as he switches from being the kind, gentle voice of reason to the witty, sarcastic, vengeful husband of a cheating, cold-hearted woman, and the calmly deranged doctor who is obsessed with the phenomenon of being scared to death. Price makes the many facets of his character's personality blend smoothly, giving him the quality of a very subtle madman. Fans of Vincent Price know exactly what I'm talking about because nobody can do this as well as he could. There's something about the combination of William Castle and Vincent Price that really clicks. My two favorite Price films are this one and House on Haunted Hill, which were both directed by Castle. It's a shame they didn't work together in more films. I really can't say enough about Vincent Price or this movie. If you're into this kind of stuff, you need to have this one in your collection. You will want to watch it again and again.
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Summary: Mild Horror But Still Entertaining
Review: I saw this movie with my parents when I was a child. It was really scary then. Having seen it recently, I wasn't as scared but still found the movie entertaining. The special effects are what you would expect for the time period of the movie but the story line is good and the acting by Vincent Price is superb. I would recommend this movie.
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Summary: We all lifted our feet!
Review: I saw this the first time when it came out. It is scary and has a great surprise ending.
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