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The Tingler (1959)

The Tingler (1959)

Science Fiction Horror

Ghastly Beyond Belief!

Release Date: 1959, July 29
Directors: William Castle
Countries: United States of America
Production: Columbia Pictures, Columbia Pictures, William Castle Productions, William Castle Productions
Cast: Vincent Price, Richard Barthelmess, Gertrude Astor, Judith Evelyn, Gail Bonney, Dal McKennon, George DeNormand, Philip Coolidge, Patricia Cutts, Darryl Hickman, Pamela Lincoln, Leon Alton

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.

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