31 Days of Horror: The Tingler (1959)

Fear is an amazing thing. Fear portrayed in 1959 movie classic is called The Tingler. Starring Vincent Price as coroner/scientist Dr. Warren Chapin who discovers that a creature lives inside everyone, feeding on our fear, and controlled by our scream.

This, dear people, is B-movie surrealism--a classic in every form of the word. Price teams with William Castle (House on Haunted Hill) to bring this B&W camp-tastic treat to life.

For what it is, The Tingler is perfect. Using a mute woman to experiment on, Price is seedy, yet diabolical. He's so fun to watch as Dr. Chapin. Barbara (Judith Evelyn) is terrorized to death. Those sequences are trippy with a tinge of color and touch of creep. I love how inventive productions of this nature had to be.

Look, The Tingler is low-budget and hammy, but still provides the necessary scare. Who knows if it's still in print--my copy is VHS.