Talk:The Tingler

Additions to The Tingler
I added an ad from the pressbook for "The Tingler" and a screen shot of the bloody bathtub. I also added a slight alteration to the description of the bath tub scene and expanded the explaination about the vibrator attachment to the seats. I was living in Corsicana Texas when the film played and had a friend who worked at The Palace Theatre. He clued me into the wired seats and how they worked. He said there were about 10 rigged seats (wired to the seat lights for power) and to look for one of those when I went in. I found one. The effect was only moderate. I remember when the lights came on in the auditorium and Vincent Price said "Scream for your lives" the audience laughed rather than screamed. Philbertgray 03:18, 30 October 2006 (UTC)

Other films that feature brief use of color sequences in otherwise black-and-white films included The Picture of Dorian Gray and A Portrait of Jennie.Maccb 22:03, 15 October 2007 (UTC)

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Bloody Bathtub scene
I'm not sure why someone insists on changing the description of how the bloody bathtub scene was accomplished. If you've only seen the film on DVD then it appears that the scene was accomplished via rotoscoping. However, in a theater on 35mm film it is quite obvious that the set was dressed in pseudo-monochrome shades and the actress was painted up in gray makeup. The referenced book by Kevin Heffernan (Heffernan, Kevin (2004). Ghouls, Gimmicks and Gold: Horror Films and the American Movie Business, 1953-1968. Duke University Press. ISBN 0822332159.) is searchable on Amazon (check page 102) and is as close to a published reference as I can find. Also, these aren't as authoritative, but they prove I'm not crazy (as one unfortunate edit implied). http://www.dvdtalk.com/dvdsavant/s61colorexp1.html. (a second link was deleted as it was "black listed".)

The laserdisc actually has the original version of the scene. The blood is is muddy brown and the rest of the scene is faded pink (as in old color film prints) and not indicative of the effect that was intended so when the film came out on DVD, they fixed the scene by redoing the special effect by desaturating all the color and then rotoscoping in a brighter red for the blood. Keep in mind, that this was a low budget William Castle film with a rubber centipede as the monster. The paint gimmick is much cheaper than a color/black and white process shot. Caligulathegod (talk) 09:32, 23 March 2009 (UTC)

Just adding an opinion … there seems to be an even simpler way to have done the shots. ( The bath tub shot especially.) First you shoot bathroom footage in black and white - this can include the actress - then using that footage as a screen backdrop, you put the bath tub full of red liquid in the foreground and film in color. THAT seems like the cheapest way to go, and no extra cost for making up an actress in grey tones! Just guess work, I’ve never read an authentic account. 75.106.32.81 (talk) 18:39, 12 July 2024 (UTC)

Role of LSD absent from "Plot" section
The "Production" section currently mentions that this film includes "the first depiction of LSD use in a major motion picture", but there is not mention of it in the "Plot" section. Where in the plot did this occur? -- 182.232.144.48 (talk) 01:43, 11 February 2012 (UTC)

Analysis
This what the first paragraph says: ''A subplot of the film involves the fates of a movie theater specializing in silent films and its owners. According to Kevin Heffernan, this reflects the conditions of the movie theater industry in the late 1950s. There were many discount theaters trying to establish their own market niche by showing older films. For the owners of these small theaters it was a thankless and poorly paid job, as described in the trade journals of this period. When Ollie describes at length the work load involved in cleaning the building, he echoes real-life complaints.[4] This provides the motive for his murder, as he is trying to escape a hopeless life.[4]''

Kevin Heffernan didn't do his research. While what he is saying might be generally true, the movie theater is obviously based on an actual movie theater in Los Angeles at the time on Fairfax that showed silent movies. It was run by a husband and wife and like the one in The Tingler their residence was upstairs, above the theater. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 208.127.124.62 (talk) 11:07, 1 December 2016 (UTC)

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