Part of Midnight Movies
Dr. Warren Chapin (Vincent Price) conducts autopsies on executed prisoners and — upon deducing that a spine-dwelling creature is suppressed by the human scream — he doses a deaf and mute woman with LSD and builds for her a terrible nightmare in an attempt to lure the creature.
This astoundingly strange concept comes to us courtesy of the King of Ballyhoo himself, the inimitable William Castle, and features one of his greatest gimmicks of all: Percepto!
“Perhaps Castle’s most outrageous film, THE TINGLER also stands as one of his best…. Credit this picture for originality, but also give it props for smartly playing around with the conventions of cinema itself, as witnessed via one segment in which the blood in this otherwise black-and-white feature is presented in color, or in the climactic sequence in which THE TINGLER terrorizes a packed movie theater.” —Matt Brunson, Film Frenzy