The Tingler (1959)
"Ghastly Beyond Belief!"
Critics Score
🎬 78%
(RT: 78%) RT = Rotten Tomatoes (critic reviews). MC = Metacritic (weighted critic average). Critics Score is the average of both.
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Cast
Philip Coolidge as Oliver 'Ollie' Higgins
Judith Evelyn as Mrs. Martha Ryerson Higgins
Darryl Hickman as David Morris
Pamela Lincoln as Lucy Stevens
Patricia Cutts as Isabel Stevens Chapin
William Castle as Prologue Host (uncredited)
Bob Gunderson as Ryerson - Screaming Convict (uncredited)
Is The Tingler good?
Yes. 86% of real audiences liked it, by Google's archived audience score. Critics agree, scoring it 78%.
Overview
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. Wikipedia ↗
