The read
Critics rate it 12 points higher than audiences do. It runs a compact 1h 22m.
Synopsis
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.
Ratings
IMDb6.6/10
Rotten Tomatoes78%
Critics rate it 12 points higher than audiences do.
203 audience votes
Key crew
- William CastleDirector
- Robb WhiteScreenplay
- Von DexterOriginal Music Composer
Cast
- Vincent PriceDr. Warren Chapin
- Philip CoolidgeOliver 'Ollie' Higgins
- Judith EvelynMrs. Martha Ryerson Higgins
- Darryl HickmanDavid Morris
- Pamela LincolnLucy Stevens
- Patricia CuttsIsabel Stevens Chapin
- William CastlePrologue Host (uncredited)
- Bob GundersonRyerson - Screaming Convict (uncredited)
- Dal McKennonProjectionist (uncredited)
- Leon AltonMember of Silent Movie Audience (uncredited)
- Gertrude AstorMember of Silent Movie Audience (uncredited)
- Richard BarthelmessDavid Kinemon (archive footage) (uncredited)
Stills
Themes
adulterydeaf-mutelsdautopsycheat on husbandblack and whitecreaturescientistpathologisthuman experimentfrightadulterous wife