1959'S "The Tingler" Plot May Be The Best Ever in Sci Fi Horror History !!!
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Spartacus
MemberOvomorphMay-16-2012 5:45 PMI 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.
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[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]
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Svanya
AdminPraetorianMay-16-2012 5:53 PMMy 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

Spartacus
MemberOvomorphMay-16-2012 5:55 PMwow, I had never even heard of this film until today. amazing...price is Uncomparable !!!

Powereddie
MemberOvomorphMay-16-2012 5:57 PMReminds me of the movie "The Asphix" (1972) ... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Asphyx

David 1
MemberOvomorphMay-16-2012 5:58 PMSpartacus:
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.
[b]Ask nothing from no one. Demand nothing from no one. Expect nothing from no one.[/b]

David 1
MemberOvomorphMay-16-2012 6:03 PMVincent rules. ,,/ + . + ,,/ the dude looks metal
[b]Ask nothing from no one. Demand nothing from no one. Expect nothing from no one.[/b]

NCC 1701
Veteran MemberMemberOvomorphMay-16-2012 6:06 PMMr 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

David 1
MemberOvomorphMay-16-2012 6:08 PMNcc:
true friend, true.
I like almost all of his movies. The Poe ones, the SciFi ones... all great
[b]Ask nothing from no one. Demand nothing from no one. Expect nothing from no one.[/b]

FREEZE!
Co-AdminMemberOvomorphMay-16-2012 6:10 PMloving the disclaimer! thanks Sparty, I'll have to check that out for sure!
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Spartacus
MemberOvomorphMay-16-2012 6:10 PM[b]RIP "VINNY" RIP !!![/b]
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David 1
MemberOvomorphMay-16-2012 6:12 PMLOL
[b]Ask nothing from no one. Demand nothing from no one. Expect nothing from no one.[/b]

Spartacus
MemberOvomorphMay-16-2012 6:18 PM[img]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v234/LT.HIGHTIMES/1A1TatPrice.jpg[/img]

David 1
MemberOvomorphMay-16-2012 6:21 PMWhat 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
[b]Ask nothing from no one. Demand nothing from no one. Expect nothing from no one.[/b]

David 1
MemberOvomorphMay-16-2012 6:23 PMHOLLY SH*** DUDE, IS THAT TATTOO YOURS?
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Spartacus
MemberOvomorphMay-16-2012 6:28 PMThe 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 !!!

John D.
MemberOvomorphMay-16-2012 6:29 PMMay 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.

Spartacus
MemberOvomorphMay-16-2012 6:31 PMJust 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.

David 1
MemberOvomorphMay-16-2012 6:33 PMHey 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"...
[b]Ask nothing from no one. Demand nothing from no one. Expect nothing from no one.[/b]

Spartacus
MemberOvomorphMay-16-2012 6:37 PMThe Pit is slow building but gets "there" eventually and all about a "dead end" of sorts...lol......but very very interesting and gets creepy, real quick at the end!

Spartacus
MemberOvomorphMay-16-2012 7:24 PM[b]DO YOU HAVE THE GUTS ???[/b]
[b]WELL DO YA?[/b]
[b]PUNK!!![/b]
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Tears N. Reign
MemberOvomorphMay-16-2012 11:01 PMAww, Vincent Price's voice is priceless. The go-to guy to make any dialogue/monologue sound sinister back in those days. Did he ever have children? He could make lullabys such as twinkle twinkle little star or mary had a little lamb all sound terrorfying, so storytime for any child he put to bed must have been traumatic.

Spartacus
MemberOvomorphMay-16-2012 8:40 PM100%...sucked it right up in 4 hours...lol....I will now gleefully watch this classic sci fi masterpiece of cheese ~

David 1
MemberOvomorphMay-17-2012 7:27 AMLol Tears, but you're so right... mostly
Saw the Last Man on Earth. Cool flick, a bit on the slow paced but interesting.
Also re-watched Fire in the Sky, about Travis Walton abduction. the inner ship doctor examination was exelent [though not true acording to Travis him self], the animation was super-freakin' [the aliens movements and the zero gravity].
Tonight I'll watch Cemetery Man (Dellamorte Dellamore) and The Devils Rejects just for the kicks.
[b]Ask nothing from no one. Demand nothing from no one. Expect nothing from no one.[/b]

Spartacus
MemberOvomorphMay-19-2012 8:30 AMwow cenmetery man...lol...gotta see it...
anyways I saw this thing late Thursday night and despite the incredibly cheesy opening of it, the rest 97.5% of it is absolutely fascinating, disturbing, and so much damn fun to watch, the plot and pace are both so well constructed that Price's own little easter eggs along the way are ten times more effective. Some of the use of Color mixed with Black & White along with the audio effect soundtrack work so well it is very hard to grasp that this film was made in the 50's.
I cannot express how greatful I am now to that guy at work who mentioned this thing to me and to David1 right here on this board for his understanding and appreciation of the genre, Vincent Price and film in general.

David 1
MemberOvomorphMay-19-2012 4:32 PMTrue Sparty true.
The Man was a MetalHead.
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