Yep. Much like Richard Basehart could (and did) make any old scientific mumbo-jumbo sound completely credible in 'Voyage' - "Lee, this ham-and-cheese sandwich doesn't contain any HAM! Who could have taken it?". Eat your acting heart out, Shatner!
John Waters tells an amusing anecdote about when he was a kid and saw the movie when it came played at a local theatre in Baltimore. He had heard that the gimmick was that certain chairs were wired to give a select few audience members a shock at specific points in the movie. They'd scream and cause others to scream. But by the time it got to his area only one seat was rigged to cause the effect and he arrived at the theatre early, found that chair, and sit there all day long "getting my ass buzzed." 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
No wonder he cameod in an episode of Homicide: Life In the Street. The show is set in Baltimore. It was a cross over episode with Law & Order. He plays a suspect being extradited to New York and the detectives from Homicide have to hand him over to the detectives of Law & Order and they all exchage jibes and insults about one another's cities.
There was a Joe Dante film that came out in 93 with John Goodman as a William Castle inspired film guy screening his movies in Key West. It's called Matinee.
Was lucky enough to find the blu ray recently. Legendary movie. Though the Mant poster they had up in my local cinema teasing Matinee freaked me the hell out at age 4.
@@geoffreyfyfe2248 Imagine if he had: he could've done one of his filmed introductions & included a gimmick where patrons would be given pregnancy tests to see if they were carrying the anti-Christ.
Fortunately for starfleet, they managed to figure out in the nick of time that vitamins were not the reason a geriatric admiral could throw Riker across the room.
I remember watching this with my mom on a Creature Feature back in the early 80s. She told me about the gimmick when the movie came out. I'll always like this movie a lot.
@@the_once-and-future_king. yes like the fly or the thing or any other 70 to 80s remake of horror or sci fi, Why i wish this was remake in that time period
I love William Castle. He was like the crazy grandpa who gave to cheesey spooky gifts all in good fun. House on Haunted Hill, 13 Ghosts, and Straight Jacket were awesome as well. And, who doesn't love Vincent Price?
When I was a young lad, I stayed up half the night watching such classics as "From Hell it Came", "The Killer Shrews" and yes, "The Tingler". I thought it was a good movie. Loved Vincent Price too.
I first became aware of this film in reading Stephen King's 'Danse Macabre'. He devotes some few paragraphs to William Castle generally, and this film specifically.
My husband and I watched the Tingler not long ago (I think it was on Tubi) and it is FAR better than it has any right to be. We were truly surprised how much we enjoyed it.
The best way to see 'The Tingler' is on Svengoolie. Or pretty much any schlocky monster or early sci-fi movie, for that matter. If you can tolerate corny Dad jokes.
It reminded me the of the original BBC production of All Creatures Great and Small back in the '70's. Only with a nonsensical plot and far worse special effects.
One of the main reasons I can't stand does Hobbit movies. I tried to see the extended cuts a couple of years ago to see if it would make the story any better, but they're absolutely unwatchable
I'm baffled that they didn't create a dance for more promo of the movie ("Come on guys, let's dance the Tingler!"). I wonder what that would have looked like. 🤔
If William Castle was around today, his movies would have audiences use their phones to scan a QR code on the screen and use Augmented Reality to interact with certain scenes, and with drinking in the theater allowed his movies would have "take a drink every time..." moments.
Saw this on T.V. on Halloween some years back and 2 years ago on UA-cam, one of the best films I have seen, R.I.P Vincent Price, as well, one of the greatest actors.
William Castle was a genius director with all of his films having gimmicks that would lead the way to 3D and 4DX. No matter the film’s quality his filmography are very entertaining and interesting
I was at screening as part of Sci-Fi film festival, and they rigged the seats with vibrators and had someone run with a "tingler" attacking them. It was a hoot. I had a buzzer and I screamed when activated.
A couple of years ago, I saw a 4D Shrek movie at Universal Studios and had such a amazing time. It makes me wonder what people in the 50s would've thought of immersive films today.
As a wee boy, whenever we had Arbroath smokies(fish) for dinner, my dad would take the left over spine & make it move menacingly towards us declaring it was 'the Tingler!' 😂
I saw this movie recently, and yes its a stupid premise but there are scenes that are genuinely creepy and unsettling, the bathtub in particular. Plus you've got Vincent Price :=)
Tingler is fun, but my favourite Castle film is Thirteen Ghosts, because if you have a pair of 3D glasses the gimmick still works. And how you use the gimmick actually changes the movie from a story about a family haunted by ghosts to a man plagued by mental breakdown 😆
Say what you will about William Castle and his gimmicks, but the fact remains, he did make good and entertaining films. The Tingler is certainly my favorite of Castle's films. Definitely best remembered for the Percepto! gimmick (which, of course, I've never experienced), but the film works thanks to the delicious ham of Vincent Price. I don't think the movie would have worked without him, and that also applies to House on Haunted Hill since the remake - without Price - didn't work nearly as well. Sure, the science in The Tingler is bollocks and utterly inconsistent, but that's not why you watch these things. You watch to be entertained, and you are definitely not bored by the film. The Tingler creature is a wonderful creation, even if it's not believable for a second. And I just loved it.
Its kinda funny how this movie seems like it shouldn't work based on the gimmick nature of Castle's films but ends up making for a pretty entertaining watch.
His 13 ghosts was a really working experience, I mean I still have a red/blue 3D glasses, and that's practicaly the same as his gimmick-device. Back then I bet a lot of people went to his films just for the gimmicks.
Mark Hamill is a big fan of this movie too. He was talking about it on Twitter and I asked him if he had seen Trace Beaulieu and Frank Conniff from MST3K riff it live and he was really excited about the idea. I @'d at Trace and he happened to be online and I left them talking about when and where they'd be riffing it next. BTW, The Mads riffed this over Zoom and you can buy a recording of it.
I saw this on the "Saturday scary movie" slot on a tv station when i was a kid and it freaked me out. I was mis remembering the name and wanted to call it "The Thriller" but knew that couldn't be right.
Thanks , man, I saw this in high school about 1982 and for decades felt that I should go back and watch it again. Now I don’t have to and I’m totally good. Very interesting to revisit it; I had forgotten the whole story and it was quite a hoot to see Master Vincent in the grip of a trip!
The 1950s had some of the worst rates of prescription drug overdoses and deaths in history, until it was eclipsed by the opioid crisis of the present day.
Found this to be such a pleasant surprise--there's a genuinely good story in there with all the B-Movie cheese. And, well, Vincent Price. Can't go wrong.
@user-cx7kg6ok9b I have a friend who, as he put it, "Bronzed in the heroin Olympics" 😁 He figured if shooting dope is good, shooting acid is good, too. It was not.
Brandon, thank you once again for making me laugh, bud. Your pick of (mostly) truly cheesy movies starts things off right, and your mild sarcasm makes your commentary a blast to listen to. My only complaint is that we have to wait too long between videos lol. Have a good one.
19:19 🎶don't scream!!, i know just what you're saying 🎶so please stop explaining 🎶don't tell me cause it hurts 🎶don't scream!!, i know what you're thinking 🎶i don't need your reasons 🎶don't tell me cause it hurts
Normally I save non-Godzilla videos for workout videos but I'm watching this one. Also, that creature had a long career, it was still working until the late 80's and was in an episode of Star Trek: TNG.
Awesome episode. Like I mentioned, I saw this movie a few times on "Svengoolie". While it is a traditional William Castle gimmick movie, a lot of the content was pretty ahead of its time. With the LSD scenes Body Horror element, it really make the movie stand out from most other horror movies at the time. I can definitely see a remake for this movie work, if they get good Writers, a competent Director, and a top notch special effects team.
There's an episode of "Space Ghost: Coast to Coast" where The Tingler is mentioned. A random caller to the show says; "The Tingler is loose in the theater. Scream, Scream for your lives!". I think about that clip a lot. Now I get the reference. :P
So awesome to see you cover this one. Gloriously cheesy classic! Awesome review as always. Three cute, weird little rescue hedgehogs and I think you rock! 👍🏻🦔🦔🦔
1 nice shirt! 2 As a kid (1976ish) I remember it being a bit of a neighborhood big deal when this movie was advertised as the late night movie😂 3 The 1993 movie Matinee does a nice job depicting a William Castle type filmaker
I saw the Tingler on a double bill with House on Haunted Hill at Detroit’s historic Redford Theater. When Vincent Price told everybody to scream, the crowd erupted! It was a lot of fun.
Absolutely LOVE that you added in the Gremlins clips. Vincent Price is the best part of this, obviously, and I'll watch anything with him at least once.
My personal favorite William Castle film. I even have a prop replica of the Tingler waiting in the closet for Halloween this year. Dressing as Vincent Price this year. (FUN FACT: There was a sequel to this film in the form of a one-shot comic.)
Sadly, William Castle's plans for a foreign language spin-off called "The French Tickler" never ended up happening.
😂😂😂 finger bang bang...bang bang bang
You should do a video on puppet master
Reminds me of that guy in Family Guy where Quagmire performs at an airshow
"things are a bit foggy" yeah no shit you shoot up lsd XD
*Ba-dum tiss*
Vincent Price was probably the only actor that could make "The Tingler" not sound completely stupid.
And carries this whole movie like Atlas carries the heavens!
He had that charisma that could make any plot worth watching. Even in Theater of Blood, where he kills critics in Shakespeare style deaths.
Peter Cushing might have been good, too!
He made all movies jump up a notch.
Yep. Much like Richard Basehart could (and did) make any old scientific mumbo-jumbo sound completely credible in 'Voyage' - "Lee, this ham-and-cheese sandwich doesn't contain any HAM! Who could have taken it?". Eat your acting heart out, Shatner!
Vincent "I'm good in anything" Price.
The first movies I ever saw him in was The Fly and Great Mouse Detective.
Damn right he is😎
He really was the best at everything he did. Loved that man dearly.
He's entertaining in the Dr goldfoot movies, but they're still hard to watch.
@@vincegamer I watch for the 👙
What makes Vincent's sarcastic lines so funny is that he never changes his tone of voice. Just says them as he normally did any casual line.
leslie nielsen ante litteram
He always had a mischievous grin
Playing it straight is vastly underused in self aware movies. So many parodies could get a bump up in grade by 2 or 3 steps if they'd try it.
Yeh he knew how to elevate any role with just tone and demeanor a true actor.
He could pack more sarcasm and biting wit into a handful of lines than lesser actors could in a whole film.
"Just as I suspected: He died from being in the electric chair." 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Dude, I love your channel!!!!!
John Waters tells an amusing anecdote about when he was a kid and saw the movie when it came played at a local theatre in Baltimore. He had heard that the gimmick was that certain chairs were wired to give a select few audience members a shock at specific points in the movie. They'd scream and cause others to scream. But by the time it got to his area only one seat was rigged to cause the effect and he arrived at the theatre early, found that chair, and sit there all day long "getting my ass buzzed." 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
I could see John doing that. 😆
@@danielseelye6005 He would be the guy who liked getting his ass buzzed.
😂😂😂😂😂
No wonder he cameod in an episode of Homicide: Life In the Street. The show is set in Baltimore. It was a cross over episode with Law & Order.
He plays a suspect being extradited to New York and the detectives from Homicide have to hand him over to the detectives of Law & Order and they all exchage jibes and insults about one another's cities.
William Castle + Vincent Price = Greatness
Loved that you called William Castle the P.T. Barnum of movies, because that's exactly how I describe him.
But no mention of "Matinee".
Dumb question but who is P.T. Barnum?
@@FireFox64000000The creator of the circus. The musical the greatest showman (the movie with Hugh Jackman) was About him
@@angelganon8213 Especially the freak show. I went to a museum about him in his hometown of Bridgeport, Connecticut.
It’s very accurate.
Vincent Price was an absolute legend. One of the all time greats.
Quite true.
There was a Joe Dante film that came out in 93 with John Goodman as a William Castle inspired film guy screening his movies in Key West. It's called Matinee.
Yep and the movie in the movie was even a knockoff of "The Fly" called "Mant" where he was half-ant instead.
@@zerrodefex Half Man... Half Ant... ALL TERROR!
@@zerrodefex- With B-movie staples Kevin McCarthy and William Schallert in the fake movie. Plus Dick Miller.
Was lucky enough to find the blu ray recently. Legendary movie. Though the Mant poster they had up in my local cinema teasing Matinee freaked me the hell out at age 4.
Further proof that even if a movie is lame, Vincent Price was always pure gold.
Dr Goldfoot.
@@frankgesuele6298 Gold lamé.
Genuinely surprised that this is your first William Castle film. Hopefully we see more
You probably will.
That would be wonderful.
@@TheBrandonTenold 13 ghosts would be sweet.
@@TheBrandonTenoldhey brandon can you review all monsters attack or Godzilla's revenge
To me, the freakiest thing about William Castle is that he produced Rosemary’s Baby! WTF? He even made a cameo! Wow…
He also wanted to direct it, but got pushed aside for Polanski because they didn't want people think it was a Castle-kind of film.
ooh a hitchscockian cameo neat
He had a long career in Hollywood before he became the face of his horror films.
BEST CAMEO EVER... taken one step further by Roger Corman in "The Howling".
@@geoffreyfyfe2248 Imagine if he had: he could've done one of his filmed introductions & included a gimmick where patrons would be given pregnancy tests to see if they were carrying the anti-Christ.
it's nice to know that the tingler made it to Seti Alpha 5.
A tad smaller, but yes
And P3X-888...
When the Trek effects crew made the huge ear for the effects shot of the thing crawling inside they made a large Q-Tip to go with it.
@@skylx0812 🤣
They also made it to Starfleet Headquarters in the TNG episode Conspiracy.
17:39 "night of the living deaf"
Brilliant pun! 😁👍
I saw this in a theater a few years ago and they had a few seats hooked up with an effect for the Tingler scenes.
And four centuries later, the Tingler would attempt to take over Starfleet by inhabiting key personnel.
Fortunately for starfleet, they managed to figure out in the nick of time that vitamins were not the reason a geriatric admiral could throw Riker across the room.
The bloodbath effect is amazing it looks like the arm is growing out of the bath rather than just some dude sticking his arm out.
I remember watching this with my mom on a Creature Feature back in the early 80s. She told me about the gimmick when the movie came out.
I'll always like this movie a lot.
For whatever reason i wish this one was remake in the 80s.
Starring Jeffrey Combs, obviously! (And preferably Barbara Crampton too.)
@@the_once-and-future_king. yes like the fly or the thing or any other 70 to 80s remake of horror or sci fi, Why i wish this was remake in that time period
@@Melvinshermen Don't forget The Blob.
@@funkyweapon1981 yeah that too.
Cronenberg could've given this one the same treatment he gave The Fly.
The head/frontal part of the parasite reminds the bug Ceti eel from Star Trek 2!
I love William Castle. He was like the crazy grandpa who gave to cheesey spooky gifts all in good fun. House on Haunted Hill, 13 Ghosts, and Straight Jacket were awesome as well. And, who doesn't love Vincent Price?
William Castle does seem like the type of guy who would put up tons of decorations in front of his house for Halloween.
@@TheBrandonTenold I could imagine reaching into his candy bowl and getting shocked.
I bet William castle had the best haunted houses on trick or treaters. It'd be like going through a carnival spook house
@@dougrobinson8602the jolter
When I was a young lad, I stayed up half the night watching such classics as "From Hell it Came", "The Killer Shrews" and yes, "The Tingler". I thought it was a good movie. Loved Vincent Price too.
Man Vincent Price was so amazing in anything he did no matter how insane it would be.
I first became aware of this film in reading Stephen King's 'Danse Macabre'. He devotes some few paragraphs to William Castle generally, and this film specifically.
Read that book in high school; it became my roadmap to a lot…
@@angusmacfrankenstein7227 Same here. Junior year.
@@angusmacfrankenstein7227 Was that lot Salem's Lot?
I'm sure William Castle would come up with a pretty cool popcorn bucket.
14:25 "... He killed his wife to get her silent-movie theatre money" - BEST! LINE! EVER!
Dude, thank you. I thought I was the only one that saw high frame rate films as a daytime soap.
My husband and I watched the Tingler not long ago (I think it was on Tubi) and it is FAR better than it has any right to be. We were truly surprised how much we enjoyed it.
The best way to see 'The Tingler' is on Svengoolie. Or pretty much any schlocky monster or early sci-fi movie, for that matter. If you can tolerate corny Dad jokes.
"Looks like day time soap opera" THANK YOU!!! That's what I thought, too!
It reminded me the of the original BBC production of All Creatures Great and Small back in the '70's.
Only with a nonsensical plot and far worse special effects.
I showed that moment to my Mrs and said "Y'see? It wasn't just me!" 😆
One of the main reasons I can't stand does Hobbit movies. I tried to see the extended cuts a couple of years ago to see if it would make the story any better, but they're absolutely unwatchable
Avatar 2 found a way to make it look even worse by switching the frame rate around.
Too bad the creature wasn't a mutated orange astronauts drink.
Then it could be......THE TANGLER!!!
....I'll close the door on my way out.
No, please, don't go, come back...
Ohhh 😖
I'm baffled that they didn't create a dance for more promo of the movie ("Come on guys, let's dance the Tingler!"). I wonder what that would have looked like. 🤔
If William Castle was around today, his movies would have audiences use their phones to scan a QR code on the screen and use Augmented Reality to interact with certain scenes, and with drinking in the theater allowed his movies would have "take a drink every time..." moments.
Saw this on T.V. on Halloween some years back and 2 years ago on UA-cam, one of the best films I have seen, R.I.P Vincent Price, as well, one of the greatest actors.
I'm leaving for a camping trip in a few hours, this is perfect timing!
William Castle was a genius director with all of his films having gimmicks that would lead the way to 3D and 4DX. No matter the film’s quality his filmography are very entertaining and interesting
15:29 Imagine the audience shouting:
Tingler no tingle! Tingler no tingle!
I was at screening as part of Sci-Fi film festival, and they rigged the seats with vibrators and had someone run with a "tingler" attacking them. It was a hoot. I had a buzzer and I screamed when activated.
Ooo, the inspiration for John Goodman's character from Matinee!
Beat me by an hour!
Vincent Price had a very unique charm that makes a lot of otherwise forgettable movies worth watching.
A couple of years ago, I saw a 4D Shrek movie at Universal Studios and had such a amazing time.
It makes me wonder what people in the 50s would've thought of immersive films today.
Em, a lot of those people are still alive. They're great grandparents now.
As a wee boy, whenever we had Arbroath smokies(fish) for dinner, my dad would take the left over spine & make it move menacingly towards us declaring it was 'the Tingler!' 😂
Aww, that's sweet. I hope your mum was chiding him "Stop teaching the kids to play with their food!"
I saw this movie recently, and yes its a stupid premise but there are scenes that are genuinely creepy and unsettling, the bathtub in particular. Plus you've got Vincent Price :=)
Tingler is fun, but my favourite Castle film is Thirteen Ghosts, because if you have a pair of 3D glasses the gimmick still works. And how you use the gimmick actually changes the movie from a story about a family haunted by ghosts to a man plagued by mental breakdown 😆
This messed with my head when I was a child and I couldn't get enough. It was the concepts, not the execution of those which captured the imagination.
if this movie was called The Chiller, i bet they'd make the theater room so freaking cold your soda wouldn't need ice
Say what you will about William Castle and his gimmicks, but the fact remains, he did make good and entertaining films. The Tingler is certainly my favorite of Castle's films. Definitely best remembered for the Percepto! gimmick (which, of course, I've never experienced), but the film works thanks to the delicious ham of Vincent Price. I don't think the movie would have worked without him, and that also applies to House on Haunted Hill since the remake - without Price - didn't work nearly as well.
Sure, the science in The Tingler is bollocks and utterly inconsistent, but that's not why you watch these things. You watch to be entertained, and you are definitely not bored by the film. The Tingler creature is a wonderful creation, even if it's not believable for a second. And I just loved it.
That's exactly how I felt watching the Hobbit..."is this a telenovela?"
Its kinda funny how this movie seems like it shouldn't work based on the gimmick nature of Castle's films but ends up making for a pretty entertaining watch.
His 13 ghosts was a really working experience, I mean I still have a red/blue 3D glasses, and that's practicaly the same as his gimmick-device.
Back then I bet a lot of people went to his films just for the gimmicks.
Mark Hamill is a big fan of this movie too.
He was talking about it on Twitter and I asked him if he had seen Trace Beaulieu and Frank Conniff from MST3K riff it live and he was really excited about the idea.
I @'d at Trace and he happened to be online and I left them talking about when and where they'd be riffing it next.
BTW, The Mads riffed this over Zoom and you can buy a recording of it.
This movie is legend status in my home!! Thanks!
I saw this on the "Saturday scary movie" slot on a tv station when i was a kid and it freaked me out. I was mis remembering the name and wanted to call it "The Thriller" but knew that couldn't be right.
9:24 - Vincent Price trippin. Absolutely priceless (pun intended). 🤣🤣🤣
I wanna go back in time and watch this movie with the “tingle” system installed in the theatre!
"make it look by a suicide by choping the head off and putting an axe in her hand" was my fave line xd
As soon as I saw what movie you were reviewing I got excited! Also, if Bob Ross made monsters, they would be happy little monsters
Thanks , man, I saw this in high school about 1982 and for decades felt that I should go back and watch it again. Now I don’t have to and I’m totally good. Very interesting to revisit it; I had forgotten the whole story and it was quite a hoot to see Master Vincent in the grip of a trip!
Wow man what a throwback. I saw this at seven or eight years old. For a few months I was scared to death of lobsters...
Ah, but did his 13 ghosts have Scooby, Shaggy and Vincent Price? I think not.
Mom told me that some of the movie theater seats got a shock!
"With better effects I could see the Tingler in a modern monster film" or... Star Trek, mayhaps?
Adding the Gremlins bit was A+ 😂
RIP Darryl Hickman, Dave Morris, he just passed away on May 22nd.
For any car people, 1959 Mercury Montclair @ 4:07
The 1950s had some of the worst rates of prescription drug overdoses and deaths in history, until it was eclipsed by the opioid crisis of the present day.
Vincent Price, a true legend in the horror community. You should review the Dr. Phibes movies.
I saw "The Tingler" and other William Castle movies on Svengoolie. I can't wait to see how you review the other films.
Found this to be such a pleasant surprise--there's a genuinely good story in there with all the B-Movie cheese. And, well, Vincent Price. Can't go wrong.
I honestly appreciate you. Reviewing movies like these, they're lost classics completely amazingly what did I see
9:15 Shooting LSD is like buying a ticket to Nightmare City on a Top Fuel dragster.
@user-cx7kg6ok9b I have a friend who, as he put it, "Bronzed in the heroin Olympics" 😁 He figured if shooting dope is good, shooting acid is good, too. It was not.
I think the ear worm from Star Trek 2 The Wrath of KHANNNNNNNNNN!! Might have been inspired by "The Tingler".
Me: no idea who Castle
Brandon: mentions House On Haunted Hill and 13 Ghosts
Me: oooohhhhh yeah I know him
Another movie by William Castle where Vincent Price's wife cheats on him? Outrageous!
Brandon, thank you once again for making me laugh, bud. Your pick of (mostly) truly cheesy movies starts things off right, and your mild sarcasm makes your commentary a blast to listen to. My only complaint is that we have to wait too long between videos lol. Have a good one.
19:19 🎶don't scream!!, i know just what you're saying
🎶so please stop explaining
🎶don't tell me cause it hurts
🎶don't scream!!, i know what you're thinking
🎶i don't need your reasons
🎶don't tell me cause it hurts
damn do i wait for every episode... comedy + cool movie ideas to watch mostly free here on youtube. what a show!
Saw this recently on Svengoolie loved every second especially the end in the lab.
I found my grandma's Tingler hidden in her underwear drawer after she was cremated.
Was it a hand cranked one or a steam powered one?
It had knobs, and was a wind up.
Did you scream?
@@TheBrandonTenold it didn't make the pain go away...
"Tingling" - getting caught rooting through your wifes underwear drawer".
The kajiu look like a water bear and the sealoes from Godzilla 1984
It reminds me more of a velvet worm than a tardigrade.
@@Banz_24 then that’s worse for velvet worms are actually predators
@@Banz_24 Lol, tardigrade.
Normally I save non-Godzilla videos for workout videos but I'm watching this one. Also, that creature had a long career, it was still working until the late 80's and was in an episode of Star Trek: TNG.
Anybody noticed this tingler looks like the parasites from ST:TNG episode... "Conspiracy" IIRC
I was thinking the ear slug from Wrath of Khan.
@@manicpixiefangirl4189 That too. AND it looks a it like the skrill from Earth: Final Conflict
This movie is an all-time classic
I saw this one a couple years ago and honestly - I kind of unironically love it. The fourth wall break is genius.
Anything with Vincent Price is going it be good
Brandon - you should do a review of "Arachnia" - a campy giant spider movie with goofy claymation and a healthy dose of T&A.
Awesome episode. Like I mentioned, I saw this movie a few times on "Svengoolie". While it is a traditional William Castle gimmick movie, a lot of the content was pretty ahead of its time. With the LSD scenes Body Horror element, it really make the movie stand out from most other horror movies at the time. I can definitely see a remake for this movie work, if they get good Writers, a competent Director, and a top notch special effects team.
Thumbs up for a fellow Sven fan. Been watching him since the early '80s.
There's an episode of "Space Ghost: Coast to Coast" where The Tingler is mentioned. A random caller to the show says; "The Tingler is loose in the theater. Scream, Scream for your lives!". I think about that clip a lot. Now I get the reference. :P
So awesome to see you cover this one. Gloriously cheesy classic! Awesome review as always. Three cute, weird little rescue hedgehogs and I think you rock! 👍🏻🦔🦔🦔
it was a movie with a great concept in body horror, however that damm name, but Vincent prize absolutly kills it like he often does in any role.
"And though you fight to stay alive / Your body starts to shiver / For no mere mortal can resist / The evil of the CHILLER."
John Goodman's character Lawrence Woolsey in the movie Matinee is based off of William Castle.
1 nice shirt!
2 As a kid (1976ish) I remember it being a bit of a neighborhood big deal when this movie was advertised as the late night movie😂
3 The 1993 movie Matinee does a nice job depicting a William Castle type filmaker
The monster looks like those parasites that were taking over Star Fleet in that one Next Generation episode "Conspiracy".
I saw the Tingler on a double bill with House on Haunted Hill at Detroit’s historic Redford Theater. When Vincent Price told everybody to scream, the crowd erupted! It was a lot of fun.
Wait, this is Brandon's first video on William Castle? He hasn't done House on Haunted Hill yet? Awesome!
Did William castle produced rosemarys baby?
meanwhile some movie theaters have the "fart smell" gimmick.
Smell-O-Vision?
whenever i watch or think of these old late 50's early 60's interactive B movies i always think of that john goodman movie matinee
Absolutely LOVE that you added in the Gremlins clips. Vincent Price is the best part of this, obviously, and I'll watch anything with him at least once.
My personal favorite William Castle film.
I even have a prop replica of the Tingler waiting in the closet for Halloween this year. Dressing as Vincent Price this year.
(FUN FACT: There was a sequel to this film in the form of a one-shot comic.)