The Tingler

Overview

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.

Release Date

29 July 1959

82 minutes

Director

Main Cast

Dr. Warren Chapin
Oliver 'Ollie' Higgins
Mrs. Martha Ryerson Higgins
David Morris
Lucy Stevens
Isabel Stevens Chapin
Prologue Host (uncredited)
Ryerson - Screaming Convict (uncredited)
Projectionist (uncredited)
Member of Silent Movie Audience (uncredited)
Member of Silent Movie Audience (uncredited)
David Kinemon (archive footage) (uncredited)