The story
A pathologist experiments with a deaf-mute woman who is unable to scream to prove that humans die of fright due to an organism he names The Tingler that lives within each person on the spinal cord and is suppressed only when people scream when scared.
Watch trailerCast & crew
Vincent PriceDr. Warren Chapin
Philip CoolidgeOliver 'Ollie' Higgins
Judith EvelynMrs. Martha Ryerson Higgins
Darryl HickmanDavid Morris
Pamela LincolnLucy Stevens
Patricia CuttsIsabel Stevens Chapin
William CastlePrologue Host (uncredited)
Bob GundersonRyerson - Screaming Convict (uncredited)
Dal McKennonProjectionist (uncredited)Leon Alton
Leon AltonMember of Silent Movie Audience (uncredited)
Gertrude AstorMember of Silent Movie Audience (uncredited)
Richard BarthelmessDavid Kinemon (archive footage) (uncredited)Explore the crew
- Screenplay
- Robb White
- Producer
- William Castle
- Director
- William Castle
- Editor
- Chester W. Schaeffer
- Original Music Composer
- Von Dexter
- Director of Photography
- Wilfrid M. Cline