Tingler

[MacTheWolf (imported)]

I just watched the 1959 drama called the "Tingler" and I didn't think it was a bit tense or scary.

Anyone else see this movie?

[Caith721 (imported)]

Saw it a LOOOONG time ago at a Saturday afternoon showing. As a kid in the 1960s, it was scary at the time. These days, I'd give it a "ho hum".

[C&TL2745 (imported)]

That was before R-PG-NC17-PG13 ratings were used, and I suppose all movies had to be "family" movies. I couldn't believe the original Thomas Crown Affair, with Steve McQueen, was rated R. Today it would be PG. Standards change.

Sandi

[Dave (imported)]

In certain theaters they wired the seats with buzzers so at the climax of the film, the seats tingled and people screamed. fainted and generally did scared things.

Here's Trailer's From Hell's discussion of its trailer:

http://trailersfromhell.com/trailers/213

I remember this on a Saturday night many years ago with Chiller Theater on TV and laughing all the way through it.

[Riverwind (imported)]

I had forgotten they did that, it did not help the movies, they were still bad as I remember.

River

[Dave (imported)]

THE TINGLER was in theaters the year before Hitchcock's PSYCHO 1960.

Now that is important because many films before a theater got PSYCHO would simply start running a movie at a few minutes after 12Noon and after the cartoon and previews, they ran the movie. Then without bringing the lights up, repeat the cartoons, the previews and then the movie. People would wander in at any time and stay until they saw an entire movie. I often walked in on the end of a movie and watched the entire next screening of it.

What happened with PSYCHO is that in the screenings, the distributors realized that if a viewer came in on the movie 10 to 15 minutes into it, the viewer had no idea why Janet Leigh was running or if they came in after the infamous shower scene where Janet Leigh died, they had absolutely no idea what the movie was about and wouldn't be scared a all just puzzled and confused.

SO theaters that showed PSYCHO started to clear the theaters and raise the houselights so one audience would leave and another would ener without falling over each other in the dark...

PSYCHO started at given times with the notation in every add that no one would be seated after the first five minutes and no one was to reveal the ending or the secrets revealed in the movie.

It wasn't the first movie to ask for secrecy about surprises...

[Riverwind (imported)]

I do remember that but it was not the first movies to clear the house before starting, that always took place on the big block buster movies in Hollywood.

I do remember going to a double features, I remember one movie I wanted to see and the one with it I had really no interest in but it was already going, I sat down and they were upside down climbing up a Christmas Tree, I thought this strange, it did have a great cast and about 20 minutes later it finally showed that is was a ship upside down in the water. I recommend watching The Poseidon Adventure from after the title wave, its much better then from the beginning, I don't even remember the other movie I saw with it.

It was about that time that the double feature went away.

River

[MacTheWolf (imported)]

When River was just a kid in 1903, he was thrilled by the silent movie, The Great Train Robbery.

[Riverwind (imported)]

This is true, my much older brother took me, ain't that right MacWolf, however the thing I want to know is why you kept talking about when you rode with Butch. I did not know old guys rode with him.

River