A pathologist experiments with a deaf-mute woman who is unable to scream to prove that humans die of fright due to an organism he names The Tingler that lives within each person on the spinal cord and is suppressed only when people scream when scared.
The Tingler has generally received positive reviews.
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The Tingler was released in 1959 and has generally received positive reviews.
Online reviewers have written 144 reviews, giving The Tingler (1959) an average rating of 65%.
Overall, film critics marginally prefer the movie, giving it an average score of 80%, compared to cinema-goers, who gave it a slightly lower average score of 75%.
With a score of 65%, The Tingler is above the average Cinafilm score for movies made in 1959, which stands at 59%.
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