Sci-Fi Classic Review: THE TINGLER (1959)
Вставка
- Опубліковано 14 бер 2020
- In this video, we get a quick primer on one of the more eccentric Hollywood auteurs of the fifties and sixties, William Castle, and put our spotlight on his schlocky, seat-buzzing sci-fi/horror masterpiece: The Tingler.
If you're looking for a "review" in the traditional sense, then let me just say I love this movie. This video, however, is a "review" in the literal sense (using the Miriam-Webster definition "a retrospective view or survey"), in that I'm going over the history of the film and its place in sci-fi cinema history.
www.emagill.com/
/ emagill
/ writeremagill
/ e_magill
Related reviews:
The Fly (1958) - • Sci-Fi Classic Review:... - Розваги
I was in Castle's fan club. He sent me a postcard that said, "Every day repeat three times; 'William Castle is the master of movie magic'." I still do it sometimes for fun. True story.
Every time I revisit this little flawed gem, I realize I'd forgotten how odd and creepy and goofy it manages to be all at same time. Great info in your appraisal. Thanks!
Castle's heritage was German, although he was born in the US with the name "Schloss," which he translated to the English "Castle."
This film makes me smile more than almost any other. I have to say it's my favorite Castle film. I can't really call it "scary", but it's a true delight, like coke and pizza. Note that the book on LSD he reads has the title on the back cover.
I believe that if any of the actors involved had camped it up, it wouldn't have worked at all. Playing it perfectly straight is what makes it so much fun to watch.
Always look forward to these videos
As a kid, I saw these Castle flicks in the movies when they first came out. Great UA-cam. Thanks
Thank you for showing the Skeleton hanging over the audience, it vindicates me among the younger ones who don't believe me when I mention it.
I loved William Castle's gimmickry and how he insulted the audience's intelligence. That was the hallmark of a Castle movie. Pure popcorn entertainment to the hilt. It's like Castle was thinking, we all know it's ridiculous, but let's take that outrageous idea and have some fun with it.
Castle was the PT Barnum of Hollywood. I found his movies original and good.
I can imagine Jeffrey Combs playing Price's character in a remake.
The first appearance of the Ceti Alpha 5 eel !
Favorite Castle film; "Mr. Sardonicus". Crazy plot, over-the-top performances and the best of Castle's own schlocky appearances in his films. He is clearly enjoying himself in these pre- and post film vignettes.
That is a good one!
Cat's smile could indeed KILL !
LOve Sardonicus too !
Another good one; the short story it's based on is genuinely disturbing.
I understand they didn't bother to film the ending where Sardonicus survives. Bless the audience and their bloodthirsty hearts!
Thank you for pronouncing Emergo correctly. Recently I heard another UA-cam host say it with the hard G sound ... which makes no sense.
Another cool video here, and I really dig the thumbnail designs you have.
PS: My favorite William Castle film is Strait-Jacket. Though it's tough to choose between that and House on Haunted Hill and The Tingler.
I love Robb White's incredibly snarky writing for estranged spouses. "Would you go away for a million dollars?"
My mother told me this movie scared the bejeezus out of her when she saw it in the theater. So I got a copy and intend on watching it with her and some friends. I found your review here extremely informative and well done I think I will show it right before we go in to the movie. I find the more you know about films from this era the more interesting they are to watch.
The only Castle film I ever saw was the Tingler and I saw that as a pre-teen. I was horrified, of course I saw it at home on a Saturday night Creature Feature so no buzzing seats. Later I saw Matinee and I loved it. The black and white scenes of Mant! were so funny (Bill, his wife begins, looking distraught as she goes on, 'If you could only put the insect a side and be the man--" Insectacide! Insectacide! Who's got the insectacide?) Dialogue like that reminded me of the TIngler and I instantly knew that this film had something to do with the director of that film. I did my research and discovered William Castle and his other great films.
6:53
That seems all the more fitting when you know the deaf mute and Olly show silent films for business that's also kind of important to the plot. I wonder if the silent films theatre and the deaf mute are parallels.
This was one of only two films I turned off on the TV in the 60s because it had scared the crap outta me. The other being Horrors of the Black Museum (don't use the binoculars). The whole hallucination scene in the home was just too much for my 10 year-old self. Man I love the 50s scary movies!
I liked The Tingler, never lucky enough to get a wired seat for this one. liked the broken film gimmick used again in The Blob.
Castle was a great promoter.
When I lived in California, they had a theater devoted to showing silent movies on Fairfax Avenue. I thought of that place, when seeing a revival of this movie years ago.
The movie "Matinee" failed in my opinion, as it should have been more Castle or all about Castle. It missed a chance that may never come again.
Awesome 👌
When I first saw Tingler I was a kid and it scared me so badly that I dreamed of giant bees stinging me every night for weeks. I don't know why bees, I wasn't afraid of them. Did not really see that many of them at that age. Still, bees. Years and even decades later, when I saw Matinee, I instantly knew it was about William C. And John Goodman has never been better. Still, it was the film within the film 'Mant' that, for me was the most memorable part of the picture. The line that stole the show, was when the husband--who is transforming into a giant man-ant is locked in a jail cell, and his wife and her lover/his doctor are talking outside the cell. The husband is franticly pacing the cell, the wife turns to him and says, 'Gerald, if you could just put the insect aside and--' 'INSECIDE!!!" Gerald shrieks. 'WHO'S got INSECTICIDE?' So, funny. Good job on this.
I forgot about that scene. So great!!
He was a rather pedestrian director, his scripts were written by others, and his real talent was for promotion. All hail William Castle and his handful of OK movies.
oh NO! his scripts were written by OTHERS?!
like...too many other directors to list. and nobody said he was stanley kubrick. and you never did anything, so shut up.
Damn, I've got to say, Castle seems like an absolutely horrible human being. Great videos as always though, Geek! Crazy story!
I don't think he was all bad as a person, but professionally, he was as much a grifter as an entertainer, more Barnum than Bailey.