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The Tingler

1959·82 min

The Tingler

Directed by William Castle

HorrorScience Fiction

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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Dr. Warren Chapin

Philip Coolidge

Oliver 'Ollie' Higgins

Mrs. Martha Ryerson Higgins

David Morris

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Wilfrid M. Cline

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Pamela Lincoln

Lucy Stevens

Isabel Stevens Chapin

Prologue Host (uncredited)

Ryerson - Screaming Convict (uncredited)

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Richard Barthelmess

David Kinemon (archive footage) (uncredited)

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George DeNormand

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Clarence Straight

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Ernest Torrence

Luke Hatburn (archive footage) (uncredited)

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The Tingler (1959) is about 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.

Who directed The Tingler?

William Castle directed The Tingler (1959).

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