Top billed cast

1. 

   Vincent Price

   Dr. Warren Chapin

2. 

   Philip Coolidge

   Oliver 'Ollie' Higgins

3. 

   Judith Evelyn

   Mrs. Martha Ryerson Higgins

4. 

   Darryl Hickman

   David Morris

5. 

   Pamela Lincoln

   Lucy Stevens

6. 

   Patricia Cutts

   Isabel Stevens Chapin

7. 

   William Castle

   Prologue Host (uncredited)

8. 

   Bob Gunderson

   Ryerson - Screaming Convict (uncredited)

9. 

   Dal McKennon

   Projectionist (uncredited)

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Reviews

A review by dennyjt

Written by dennyjt on 2022-07-25

William Castle was a master showman and this was his grandest triumph. He loved a gimmick, in this case Percepto, a device fitted beneath theater seats to enhance the climactic scenes by giving the patrons a short, sharp shock! Vincent Price, at his most maniacally deluded, is a pathologist who says he has discovered fear produces an actual physical creature that only be overcome by the release of a scream. He hopes to get his hands on someone who has died of fright to test his theory and this proves simpler than one might think, thanks to the company he keeps. It is a mad, nightmare of a horr...read the rest

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Status
Released

Original Language
English

Budget
$250,000.00

Revenue
$0.00

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