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Vincent Price
Dr. Warren Chapin
Philip Coolidge
Oliver 'Ollie' Higgins
Judith Evelyn
Mrs. Martha Ryerson Higgins
Darryl Hickman
David Morris
Pamela Lincoln
Lucy Stevens
Patricia Cutts
Isabel Stevens Chapin
William Castle
Prologue Host (uncredited)
Bob Gunderson
Ryerson - Screaming Convict (uncredited)
Dal McKennon
Projectionist (uncredited)
Leon Alton
Member of Silent Movie Audience (uncredited)
Gertrude Astor
Member of Silent Movie Audience (uncredited)
Richard Barthelmess
David Kinemon (archive footage) (uncredited)
Gail Bonney
Member of Silent Movie Audience (uncredited)
Pat Colby
Member of Silent Movie Audience (uncredited)
George DeNormand
Member of Silent Movie Audience (uncredited)
Amy Fields
Member of Silent Movie Audience (uncredited)
Clarence Straight
Member of Silent Movie Audience (uncredited)
Ernest Torrence
Luke Hatburn (archive footage) (uncredited)

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A review by dennyjt

Written by dennyjt on Mon Jul 25 2022

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 horro...