Midnights at the Baxter is ramping up to Halloween again this year with Horror Through the Decades. Things get kicked of this Saturday night with a 1950s offering called “The Tingler.” Never heard of it but it’s got Vincent Price so it’s got to be cool.
Then again the wikipedia description of the plot makes it abundantly clear that I’d be freaked out by this movie and I best not even attempt to watch it:
“A pathologist, Dr. Warren Chapin (played by Vincent Price), discovers
that the tingling of the spine in states of extreme fear is due to the
growth of a “tingler”–a spinal parasite which can kill the host unless
it is destroyed by screaming. An acquaintance of the pathologist, whose
wife (Judith Evelyn) is mute and cannot scream, uses his discovery to
frighten her to death. In an autopsy, Dr. Chapin removes the Tingler
from the wife’s spine. The slug-like creature soon escapes, and mayhem ensues.”
The Tingler
Saturday October 3, 2009
11:55PM
Baxter Avenue Theaters
1250 Bardstown Rd
Louisville, KY 40204
October 2nd, 2009 at 6:40 pm
Oh, I love this movie! It’s campy, not so scary… unless you consider a scene with the debonair Vincent Price tripping on LSD scary. (Well, ok, that is scary.) The “monster” resembles a rubber lobster.
The story of how it was promoted – with movie-theater chairs rigged to give viewers a little shock – is really the best part. Must see!