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fanofspooky · 1 month

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Vincent Price in horror movies:

• The Raven

• The Tingler

• Pit and The Pendulum

• The Last Man On Earth

• House of Usher

• The Masque of The Red Death

• House on Haunted Hill

• Comedy of Terror

• The Abominable Dr. Phibes

• The Fly

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mourningmaybells · 10 months

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"We have The Tingler at home"

The Tingler at home:

#the tingler 1959 #star trek #barclay

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schlock-luster-video · 1 year

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On November 3, 1961 The Tingler debuted in Denmark.

Here's a new portrait of Vincent Price to mark the occasion!

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mismeander · 6 days

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This one goes out to all my fans of 1959 classic thriller "The Tingler". If we get this tingling feeling down our spines that makes us need to scream, can the same be said of laughter? When we see something funny and try to hold it inside it has a very similar feeling of release in my opinion. Food for thought. Happy Tingler Tuesday everyone!

#the tingler #the tingler 1959 #1959 the tingler #horror #classic horror #1950s horror #yes i know im posting this on a wednesday. suck my left one

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mostlygibberish · 1 year

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"This 'silly' pistol can make a hole in you the size of a medium grapefruit."

I liked the part with the cat.

The Tingler's plot may not have made a whole lot of sense, especially in the second half, but what it lacked in comprehensibility it more than made up for in campy charm. There was a fun gimmick to the presentation too, suggesting to the audience that the Tingler might really get you if you don't scream loudly enough at the scary parts, which must have made cinema screenings of this quite the experience.

Vincent Price stole the show as always, effortlessly spouting deranged and cutting dialogue, while just about everyone else in the movie was struggling to deliver a single believable reaction between them. There was a whole non-Tingler side plot about his unfaithful wife, her sister, and the sister's boyfriend, but despite the significant time they spent on it, it went nowhere and none of those characters particularly mattered.

Things were more or less making sense until he injected himself with LSD and got spooked by his own anatomical skeleton model. After that the plot took about three sharp turns, each more confusing than the last. There was a fun but ultimately pointless sequence with a non-verbal woman being scared to death, which used the movie's only colour, on a bathtub full of blood with the look and consistency of tomato sauce.

When the Tingler was finally unleashed it was basically a big rubber earwig being slowly dragged about on clearly visible fishing lines, which died if you screamed in it's general direction. In other words, it was great and I loved it. Every moment it was on screen was simply fantastic, especially when Vincent Price was carrying it around in a little cage, and when it "attacked" a cinema full of people a la The Blob.

Short, silly, and very fun. A great time.

#the tingler #the tingler 1959 #movie review

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doubtfultaste · 2 months

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