Too campy to be scary but it's mightily enjoyable just the same. Vincent Price is marvelous and while the pseudoscience is preposterous it's at least put to some interesting use.

Another example of William Castle's "Horror as Unintentional Comedy" vehicles -- but watchable as a kind of Absurdist affair. Certainly better than THE HAUNTING ON HORROR -- I mean -- THE HILLING OF HAUNT HOU -- I mean, THE HELLING OF HORROR HOU -- I mean . . . what do I mean? Shirley Jackson, William Castle, Richard Matheson . . . it's all entertaining at its varying levels, if incestuous.

Although it is definitely not the best horror film I've ever seen, The Tingler might very well be one of the most entertaining. It's biggest problem is almost the exact opposite of Carnival of Souls in that there are simply too many plot elements at play, which could turn people off into thinking that it is nothing more than a series of M. Night worthy twists. However, there is definitely a deeper level of meta-communication going on with the film dealing with our obsession with terror or what K

Film scholars take your noses out of your old and Noel Carrol and Susan Sonntag books. Young people take a break form your snuffish torture porn flicks. Film lovers behooold: This is the real masterpiece of horror. This is what it's _all_ about. Mandatory viewing!

I do rather dig these cornball William Castle horrors

Strange film, passes the time.

This movie has science so preposterous, it makes The Core look like a Discovery Channel documentary. The rubber creature is hilarious. It's incredibly silly, too silly to be scary at all... though perhaps a lot of the experience is lost watching at home, without vibrating "Percepto" seats for me and my fellow watchers, or actors planted in the audience. Even without the gimmicks, however, it's kinda fun for a few goofy laughs and campy absurdity.

Awesomely schlocky and more fun than a monkey on weed, this is the peak of gimmick-master Castles career. Everything, from Price at his menacing best to barbed dildoesque proto-Cronenberg creature effects help make this one of the ultimate experiences of trashy filmmaking, and I for one applaud it for it's questionable accomplishments.

Fun Price vehicle, but it would obviously have been more fun to have seen this in the theater with all the gimmicks.

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