Question 1

What unusual promotional gimmick did director William Castle use for The Tingler?

Accepted Answer

William Castle buzzed at least twenty million behinds with electric seats in theaters, as he confessed in his biography.

Question 2

Which real-life couple met on set and later married after The Tingler's release?

Accepted Answer

Pamela Lincoln and Darryl Hickman, who played young suitors, got married on November 28, 1959, after the film's July release.

Question 3

How did actress Judith Evelyn prepare for her role as a deaf-mute in the film?

Accepted Answer

Judith Evelyn took sign language lessons for her role as a deaf-mute, and her signing was understandable, as reported in a 1959 newspaper item.

Question 4

What is the central premise of The Tingler's plot?

Accepted Answer

A pathologist experiments with a deaf-mute woman to prove humans die of fright due to an organism called The Tingler on the spinal cord, suppressed only by screaming.

Question 5

Which Hitchcock film's music was heavily borrowed for The Tingler's soundtrack?

Accepted Answer

The musical soundtrack borrows heavily from Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo, which premiered in 1958, the year before The Tingler.

The Tingler

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