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The Tingler (1959)
Topic Started: Oct 25 2014, 09:11 PM (158 Views)
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Dr. Warren Chapin is a pathologist who regularly conducts autopsies on executed prisoners at the State prison. He has a theory that fear is the result of a creature that inhabits all of us. His theory is that the creature is suppressed by our ability to scream when fear strikes us. He gets a chance to test his theories when he meets Ollie and Martha Higgins, who own and operate a second-run movie theater. Martha is deaf and mute and if she is unable to scream, extreme fear should make the creature, which Chapin has called the Tingler, come to life and grow. Using LSD to induce nightmares, he begins his experiment.
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Thanks to the pretty cool gimmick and how a certain scene toward the end of this was done I would love to see this in a theater if it were re-released. :P

I felt pretty bad or Mrs. Higgins. Deaf, unable to speak, germaphobic, AND tends to faint. Gah. :( It's especially sad since those things are taken advantage of.
"Stay awake a little longer. Who knows? The next time you sleep, it may be forever." Love the tension and mean dialogue between Warren and Isabelle (with my favorite line between those two being the "divine straight jacket...just your size!" one, haha). Also, David was really cute.

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She's my favorite character here, with Warren being a close second. Then comes Mrs. Higgins<3.
Warren's hallucination/fear scene was pretty great. Drugs are bad, kiddies! ;) Deformed guy with a knife, hairy monster, blood in a sink and tub (loved the sudden RED that was brought into an otherwise black&white film!). Oh my goodness.
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The Tingler itself was gross, freaky looking at times, and had a really cheesy way of moving. I loved it when it ended up in
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Bet that was effective when this was first released!

Overall, I really enjoyed this. Not all that creepy but it was a lot of fun and the story itself, while farfetched, is a little unsettling. I don't want one of those in my body! I'll ignore fear, thanks. Or maybe I'll just scream for my life. ;)

6/10 quality. 7/10 entertainment.
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While nowhere near a classic, this one still provides enough entertainment to prove worthwhile of a watch. One of the best features is that there's a really new and creative idea presented in the film to inspire terror. The fact that the creature is born from the human body's attempt at processing fear, and through a sense of experiments it comes to reason that its whole being is itself entirely creative. The film's at its absolute best, though, during it's dream sequences, which are quite creepy. The second one is the film's highlight, where the hallucinations range from a masked psycho with a machete to a skeleton coming to life to an insect's arm wielding an ax and many more as well. These are all quite creepy and more than a little different from the other types out there. The design of the creature isn't that bad either, coming off as a mutated slug with a pair of antennas and a forked tail, which give it a really different look than many other creatures. The fact that it never really grows to a super-huge size and is kept at a rather smaller size is a nice move and makes it a lot more believable rather than being huge. These elements help the film become more watchable. While these are all quite fun, there's not a whole lot wrong with this one. The film's biggest flaw is that this is just way too cheesy. This is the wrong kind of cheese, where it's simply annoying rather than becoming part of the fun. This is especially true of the really annoying theater sequences at the end, quite obviously put in there as gags for the theater experience long ago but come across as just corny without that. The film stops dead for these few scenes and rather than coming off as something to be feared, they're just laughable and quite aggravating. The opening and closing monologues are more examples of this by featuring him talking directly to the audience, but the movie theater scene is the big one. Granted, they're inherently charming in their own way with the attempt to stop the creature providing some chills anyway, but there's just the more obvious fact that you're watching a gimmick rather than actually being around something like this in real life. The only other one that strikes the film down is that there are way too many subplots at the beginning which just drag the opening out. The beginning really should've been about the discovery of the creature and the condition that creates it, not the marital issues that plague the characters. That really makes it feel like it's a part of a really different film, and doesn't really offer a lot of good moments. Otherwise, this one was pretty good.
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