Filmreihe something weird cinema
16mm-Vorführung am Di 25.09.18 um 21.30 Uhr

"Meine liebste Erinnerung an das Kino meiner Jugend! Der beste Spielfilm aller Zeiten!" John Waters

"A cultish chiller that acquired some fame on its original US release when Castle wired up the cinema seats with electrical buzzers to give his audiences a little extra shock value. The plot is ingeniously ludicrous: a doctor (Vinvcent Price) discovers that fear breeds a centipede-like organism in the base of the spine. The organism can kill if its grip is not released, and only a scream can do that. So the good doctor experiments on a deaf-mute, the wife of a cinema-owner who only shows silent movies. Castle was a real Hollywood showman, a downmarket Hitchcock whose work shows considerable flair. The scenes in the movie theatre are very striking, and the way the doctor torments his victim - by providing her with visual shocks (a kind of acid trip) and by causing running water from a tap to turn into blood (black-and-white gave way to colour here) - is clearly the work of a sick mind. Castle recalled, 'I was asked by somebody at Yale whether THE TINGLER was my statement against the establishment and whether it was my plea against war and poverty. I said, Who knows?'" Time Out London