Intcatinfo A Masterpiece!

BeSummers Funny, strange, confrontational and subversive, this is one of the most interesting experiences you'll have at the cinema this year.

Mandeep Tyson The acting in this movie is really good.

Candida It is neither dumb nor smart enough to be fun, and spends way too much time with its boring human characters.

charlesisachs I was born and grew up in South Bend, Indiana. I lived first next to the State Theater (still there being preserved) and was the standard Saturday afternoon for all the kids to see usually 2 westerns, maybe 2-3 serials of a science fiction 10-15 part and occasional, a new film concept to compete to the "new rival" television. My best memory was seeing the Tingler. Well, many seats were "wired" to vibrate when "The Tingler" entered "The real theater" seen "in the film" which "was a movie theater" coming through the projection room windows, which in the film went black as "if came out" into the "real world" from the "reel world" so to say. I sat through it twice, so in the second screening was a space where I sat, then an empty chair and then a "black girl" sat at the isle. In those days many kid groups went to this theater and each had "their section" to sit and cheer, etc. So, waiting for the "Tingler" to start "it's tour", in sound and seat locations. I waited for the seat to vibrate under the girl. YES, that "special" moment. WELL, she jumped up out of her seat almost airborne. It was, indeed "A scream" and my best "kid" memory for those special early 50's Saturday movie days, long vanished.I got a 25 cent allowance. It was 14 cents for the film and 10 cents for popcorn. I penny got little. BUT, the manager knew me and often I got in free.That did "a quarter get you" in 1958????? A half dozen freshly baked donuts, warm out of the bakery at the Ten Cent Store across the street. If lucky had the frosting on them and made when you came in. Can no be any fresher. Fondest of many memories. Hope you have many today, with the films now released in many ways. From small screen to 3D IMAX. And FILM "has a different look" that the new DVD projection. And key is those center seats, right in the middle. And with the sometimes NOW 6 channel stereo, and even better as people move across a screen or talk "behind" you. Enjoy.

Rainey Dawn Vincent Price plays Dr. Warren Chapin, a pathologist that has a strong curiosity concerning fear and the sensation of a tingling spine. He's sort of a "mad scientist" character that is willing to scare himself literally to prove his theory. Using the LSD drug in order to prove that, what he calls, The Tingler exists as a real living creature that lives in all vertebrate life forms. He finds that screaming will save a person's life but if they can't scream The Tingler will emerge. Chapin himself can scream so Martha Higgins' becomes Chapin's prime subject for his research since she is a deaf mute but she has to frightened. Beware of The Tingler.The film is extremely surreal once it gets going, the sudden red color contrasting with the B&W film looks like a dream or should I say nightmare.I'm sure audiences in 1959 screamed, at least some did. The film in today's society may not have you screaming but it does have some eerie moments and it is loads of fun to watch.8/10

Hitchcoc In our dumpy old movie theater, we saw the film well after its release date. Unfortunately, they couldn't afford to put all the goofy technology under the seats. They would have gotten compromised by all the gum anyway. This film is a fantastic ride as the producers try to convince us that we all have tingler in us, and the only way to drive it out is to scream, scream like crazy. The plot of the movie is secondary to the marketing. The tingler is a creature that looks like a helgrammite and it makes its way into our spines. There are two issues. One has to do with the research into the "tingler effect" and the other is using this thing to commit the murder of a shrewish wife. No one thought it was Shakespeare, but it certainly is a novel idea. And, of course, Vincent Price is the consummate horror actor.

jbrummel 2 stars for good ideas, a few good scenes, great character actors. But what a dud. Rambling, tepid, pointless, wasted ideas. Like a soap opera with a 3 foot centipede. That can barely move.So I wanted to like this, I assumed I never did because of me. Wrong. The problem is the entire B story about price and his wife and niece and who the hell cares. The film just stops dead for me as soon as I see his house.Which is a shame because Ollie is such an appealing character, the A story, silent theater, isolated shrewish wife, well meaning sad sack bad guy all add up to fun, plus the brilliant gimmick of a monster disabled by screaming set loose in a movie theater --- wasted.Another issue is the story just doesn't seem to make sense. Or maybe its there is so little of it. Prices theorizes about the tingler, finds a tingler, the tingler causes a tiny bit of havoc, price kills the tingler. Dull.And I don't see the Tingler loose in the theater as any kind of real threat. There is only on of them, and the thing can barely move. And you can paralyze it by yelling at it. Some monster.HOUSE ON HAUNTED HILL integrated soap opera and horror so smoothly. This feels like 2 movies, one I would never watch.