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1959'S "The Tingler" Plot May Be The Best Ever in Sci Fi Horror History !!!

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I just found out about a cheesy 1959 Vincent Price film that IMO may have the single greatest PLOT for any science fiction and/or Horror film ever made and I would early like to see a Director such as Scott explore a plot in film just like this one and make a serious hard core version of it...oh wait, maybe Prometheus is just that. Plot Summary for The Tingler (1959) More at IMDbPro » ad feedback [b]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. Written by garykmcd After much hard work, a pathologist discovers and captures a creature that lives in every vertebrate and grows when fear grips its host. "Scream for your lives!" Written by Erik Gregersen The coroner and scientist Dr. Warren Chapin is researching the shivering effect of fear with his assistant David Morris. Dr. Warren is introduced to Ollie Higgins, the relative of a criminal sentenced to the electric chair, while making the autopsy of the corpse, and he makes a comment about the tingler-effect to him. Ollie asks for a lift to Dr. Warner, and introduces his deaf-mute wife Martha Higgins, who manages a theater of their own. Dr. Warner returns home, where he lives with his unfaithful and evil wife Isabel Stevens Chapin and her sweet sister Lucy Stevens. Dr. Warner, upset with the situation with his wife, threatens and uses her as a subject of his experiment. When Martha dies of fear, Dr. Warner makes her autopsy and finds a creature that lives inside every human being, feeds with fear and is controlled by the scream. Once Martha was not able to scream, the tingler was not rendered harmless and became enormous. When the living being escapes, Dr. Warner and Ollie chase it in a crowded movie theater. Written by Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil[/b] [img]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v234/LT.HIGHTIMES/1a1tingler2.jpg[/img] [img]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v234/LT.HIGHTIMES/1a1tingler3.jpg[/img] [img]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v234/LT.HIGHTIMES/1a1tingler1.jpg[/img] [img]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v234/LT.HIGHTIMES/1a1tingler4.jpg[/img] [img]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v234/LT.HIGHTIMES/1a1tingler5.jpg[/img]
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My aunt told me in some theatres they put electrodes or something like that in the seats that sent an electric shock onto the viewer to add to the experience. O_o

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wow, I had never even heard of this film until today. amazing...price is Uncomparable !!!
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Reminds me of the movie "The Asphix" (1972) ... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Asphyx
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Spartacus: You must be a wizard of sorts my friend. I just *aquired* a copy of that film to watch later on... and "The last Man" as well. Both with Vincent Price.
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lol, thanks, I am at 2.4 percent, damn "seeds" lmao.
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Vincent rules. ,,/ + . + ,,/ the dude looks metal
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Mr Vincent Price was and always will be the master of horror, ,,,,,, his voice alone will never ever be replaced.... very very sad day when the man past away
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Ncc: true friend, true. I like almost all of his movies. The Poe ones, the SciFi ones... all great
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loving the disclaimer! thanks Sparty, I'll have to check that out for sure!
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[b]RIP "VINNY" RIP !!![/b] [img]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v234/LT.HIGHTIMES/1A1tilex.jpg[/img]
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LOL
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What do you think of these? La jetée Il Seme dell'uomo aka The Seed of Man Sonny Boy 1989 [this one I saw the year it was released. Very sad and awkward movie] Soylent.Green.1973 The Bed Sitting Room 1969 The Quiet Earth
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HOLLY SH*** DUDE, IS THAT TATTOO YOURS?
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The One I liked the most out of all of them truly is Soylent Green !!! The Tat is not mine but that is some tribute to the man and I just knew you would get a kick !!!
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May I humbly suggest fans of Science-Fiction films with great plots check out the following: [i]The Quatermass Xperiment[/i] (U.S. Title: The Creeping Unknown) 1955 [i]Quatermass 2[/i] (U.S. Title: Enemy from Space) 1957 [i]Quatermass and the Pit[/i] (U.S. Title: Five Million Years to Earth) 1967 Even for their time, they were intelligent science fiction films.
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32.8 lol getting there...
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Just saw and acquired all of those 3 months ago !!! Love em but I expected a bit more !!! Still.., your right, top notch !!! Very Intellectual and with quick smart dialogue.
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Hey Jonh D.: I watched at least the TQX and 2 a couple of months ago. The Quatermass and the Pit I didn't even know it existed... going to *aquire"...
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