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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.
Language
Budget$250,000
Revenue --
English
Budget$250,000
Revenue --
Keywords
adultery
deaf-mute
lsd
autopsy
cheat on husband
black and white
creature
pathologist
human experiment
fright
adulterous wife
spinal column
psychotronic film
movie theater
frightened woman
gimmick
weird tale
weird science
spine breaker
Casts
Vincent Price
Dr. Warren Chapin
Philip Coolidge
Oliver 'Ollie' Higgins
Judith Evelyn
Mrs. Martha Ryerson Higgins
Darryl Hickman
David Morris
Pamela Lincoln
Lucy Stevens
Patricia Cutts
Isabel Stevens Chapin
William Castle
Prologue Host (uncredited)
Bob Gunderson
Ryerson - Screaming Convict (uncredited)
Dal McKennon
Projectionist (uncredited)
Leon Alton
Member of Silent Movie Audience (uncredited)
Gertrude Astor
Member of Silent Movie Audience (uncredited)
Richard Barthelmess
David Kinemon (archive footage) (uncredited)
Gail Bonney
Member of Silent Movie Audience (uncredited)
Pat Colby
Member of Silent Movie Audience (uncredited)
George DeNormand
Member of Silent Movie Audience (uncredited)
Amy Fields
Member of Silent Movie Audience (uncredited)
Clarence Straight
Member of Silent Movie Audience (uncredited)
Ernest Torrence
Luke Hatburn (archive footage) (uncredited)
Crews
Robb White
Screenplay
William Castle
Producer
William Castle
Director
Monty Westmore
Makeup Artist
Hazel Keats
Makeup Artist
Harry D. Mills
Sound
John P. Livadary
Sound Supervisor
Herb Wallerstein
Assistant Director
Clarence Peet
Property Master
Milton Stumph
Set Decoration
Phillip Bennett
Art Direction
Chester W. Schaeffer
Editor
Von Dexter
Original Music Composer
Wilfrid M. Cline
Director of Photography
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