The Tingler
Year: 1959 Director: William Castle Roku Channel: classic movie vault (no commercials!) We learn early on that the main character of this film, Dr. Warren Chapin is conducting experiments about fear. He believes that the tingling sensation you feel up and down your spine is caused by a real live parasite that he names the tingler. The tingler has immense strength and can even shatter a person's spine if you don't "disarm" it by screaming. He conducts many autopsies and has seen it on multiple occasions. His first real glimpse of the tingler comes after taking xrays of his wife after he scares her into fainting. Since the tingler is incapacitated by screaming, he knows that in order to get a specimen of the tingler he would have to find someone who cannot scream. Luckily, he has recently met such a woman. A deaf mute named Martha who is the wife of his newly formed acquaintance, Ollie Higgins. Dr. Chapin secretly injects Martha with a medicine that induces
