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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 PM
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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shambs

MemberOvomorphMay-19-2012 4:48 PM
I did not know this movie, facepalm for me LOL, and the creature looks like a centipede. But the best is the plot, interesting, disturbing and not too far from the concerns that affect a human, such as fear. Thanks for that Sparty

Dave_b

MemberOvomorphMay-23-2012 2:10 PM
I grew up watching "The Tingler" on a regular basis with my oldest brother. Twilight Zone, Outer Limits, Star Trek on TV and movies like Journey To The Center of The Earth, Forbidden Planet, This Island Earth, War of The Worlds and The Thing were mind expanding. Today we have the Kardashians. Check out The Original "The Fly" with Vincent....it"s unrivaled by the remake. Of course seeing 2001: A Space Odyssey from row 5 with some extra special medicinal products coursing through our veins is unequaled to this day ...for me anyway.
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