Starring Ronnie Burns, Pamela Lincoln, Darrell Howe, Judy Howard, Michael Granger
Directed by Brooke L. Peters
(actor & director credits courtesy IMDB.com)
After his brother is convicted of murder and executed for the crime, a young man becomes mentally unbalanced and begins seeking revenge on those who brought him to justice.
The film's most notable for the presence of comedians George Burns and Gracie Allen's son Ronnie, but despite his name value he doesn't have the featured role, which instead is played by Howe, as the disturbed teenager Chet. The name of the game here is exploitation and as such features a few overwrought performances among its cast, and a number of violent confrontations. Director Boris Petroff (billed here as Brooke L. Peters) also made the horror film The Unearthly, which is far more entertaining than this, thanks largely to a more reputed cast. The picture also suffers from a number of plot holes that should have enabled the police to tie Chet to his crimes long ago. Still, there's some pleasure to be had before the movie wraps up with a pretty unexpected optimistic conclusion.
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Tuesday, November 15, 2016
The Tingler (1959)
Starring Vincent Price, Judith Evelyn, Darryl Hickman, Patricia Cutts, Pamela Lincoln
Directed by William Castle
(actor & director credits courtesy IMDB.com)
A coroner studying the effect of fear on the human body in his spare time makes the incredible discovery that a living creature causes the tingling on our spine when we become frightened.
Modern audiences might not find this film as frightening as those of fifty years ago, but despite the fact that we can't enjoy Castle's gimmick back then of rigging vibrating seats in selected theaters, it's still great fun, and enjoyable to watch. Not playing an out-and-out cad like he did in his prior film with Castle, House On Haunted Hill, Price is able to employ his considerable charm in serving as the very likable protagonist of this picture, though saddled with a cheating wife he probably goes too far in turning into one of his test subjects. The showpiece of the film, a nightmarish sequence in which the mute character played by Evelyn reacts to terrors throughout her apartment, including the only color used in the picture, is the most effective from a horror point of view, but scenes involving the true monster of the movie, the "tingler" itself, are still entertaining, even though it's unable to move its individual legs as it waddles across the floor. That serves as a cheerful reminder that the film left and still leaves smiles on the faces of many.
Directed by William Castle
(actor & director credits courtesy IMDB.com)
A coroner studying the effect of fear on the human body in his spare time makes the incredible discovery that a living creature causes the tingling on our spine when we become frightened.
Modern audiences might not find this film as frightening as those of fifty years ago, but despite the fact that we can't enjoy Castle's gimmick back then of rigging vibrating seats in selected theaters, it's still great fun, and enjoyable to watch. Not playing an out-and-out cad like he did in his prior film with Castle, House On Haunted Hill, Price is able to employ his considerable charm in serving as the very likable protagonist of this picture, though saddled with a cheating wife he probably goes too far in turning into one of his test subjects. The showpiece of the film, a nightmarish sequence in which the mute character played by Evelyn reacts to terrors throughout her apartment, including the only color used in the picture, is the most effective from a horror point of view, but scenes involving the true monster of the movie, the "tingler" itself, are still entertaining, even though it's unable to move its individual legs as it waddles across the floor. That serves as a cheerful reminder that the film left and still leaves smiles on the faces of many.
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