The Tingler
(1959)
★ 6.4 IMDb · 202 votes
Year: 1959
Runtime: 82 мин
Country: United States of America
Director: Уильям Касл
Cast: Винсент Прайс, Philip Coolidge, Джудит Эвелин, Darryl Hickman, Pamela Lincoln, Patricia Cutts, Уильям Касл, Bob Gunderson, Даль МакКеннон, Леон Элтон
Plot
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.
Dr. Warren Chapin is a pathologist who regularly conducts autopsies on executed prisoners at the State prison. He has a theory that fear is the result of a creature that inhabits all of us. His theory is that the creature is suppressed by our ability to scream when fear strikes us. He gets a chance to test his theories when he meets Ollie and Martha Higgins, who own and operate a second-run movie theater. Martha is deaf and mute and if she is unable to scream, extreme fear should make the creature, which Chapin has called the Tingler, come to life and grow. Using LSD to induce nightmares, he begins his experiment.