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Quick Info

Rating

6.4/10

Release1959

Runtime1h 22m

StatusReleased

Budget$250,000

RevenueN/A

Production

Columbia Pictures

William Castle Productions

Movie

The Tingler

1959

1h 22m

6.4

Horror

Science Fiction

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.

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