Film
971: The Tingler
Trivia: The
earliest film to depict an LSD trip.
William Castle toyed with
other ideas to frighten audience members, in addition to 'percepto'; among
them: rolling bean bags to brush against the legs of audience members, speakers
mounted at different areas that would give a 'screech' when the tingler
appeared, and possibly even using 'shills' to operate some type of mechanical
device to tickle the legs of the audience members; but the only viable way of
doing it was by attaching buzzers in select seats to coincide with the
appearance of the tingler- 'percepto'.
This
film is listed among The 100 Most Amusingly Bad Movies Ever Made in Golden
Raspberry Award founder John Wilson's
book THE OFFICIAL RAZZIE® MOVIE GUIDE.
Pamela Lincoln and Darryl Hickman, who play
the young suitors, actually got married on November 28th after the Tingler
release on July 29th 1959. They had two children, and divorced on December 8th,
1982.
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