To me, this movie is perfection.

Good movie but grossly overrated

Absolutely the worst movie.

It is not deep, but it is fun to watch. It does have a bit more of an edge to it than other similar films.

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.

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

This is one of those 1950's movies that are hopelessly hokey, a plot that is thinner than a see through bikini, but is fun none the less. William Castle, better known for the original "House on Haunted Hill" than this one, once again teams up with Vincent Price in a hopelessly cheap film that does have one elaborate murder sequence, or is it murder of a good 90 minutes?A real dedication to this type of film was done much more elaborately later when John Goodman did "Matinee", as when you watch this one it is obvious Goodman's character is based on Castle, even the producers own introduction to this movie at the start. It is so much fun that it is really campy in a lot of ways, even in 1959.We have a silent movie theater, a mute woman, her strange husband, Price as the Doctor working in his lab, his evil wife trying to kill him, and her sister trying to court Daryl Hickman. They want to get married but evil sister and Prices wife doe not want that. Since she has all the money to control Price and her sister, well a buck is always a buck and so it goes.Then there is The Tingler, ah the little piece of terror that lurks inside all of our bodies. Price has found it and is going to tell all of medical science about it once he isolates one. The little critter actually resembles a shelled seafood but the special effects budget for this one are blown on a color sequence that is a part of the murder. Actually, this murder sequence is pretty elaborately done, and there is a bit of a twist, is it induced by a drug or did it really happen?All I can say is the spirit of Price and Lawrence Woolsey are all wrapped into this movie somehow. As for it really being scary, I think the dark sequences made for theater showings are made for groping your date, though I wonder if the vibrators Castle put into theater seats when they showed this one enhanced that groping feeling?

Vincent Price & William Castle unite to being us The Tingler.Vincent Price at the height of his iconic status teams up with William Castle milking the icon of horror success with this campy horror movie. Price plays up the campy very well and you feel like he's having a lot of fun in the role.the movie's opening title sequence with was actually the scariest part with William Castle introducing the movie and telling the audience to scream if they feel like it. Otherwise, the movie is best enjoyed from the campyness of the the monster.The monster concept was pretty good. Vincent Price plays a doctor who believes that fear is not just a emotion but an actual living thing he called the Tingler, his theory is proved to be right when he finds a Death and mute woman unable express her fear like others with screaming. Once again, William Castle uses audience participation for the movie, although I this time it transfer better onto DVD.The movie was very entertaining to watch not really for it's horror but for being campy.