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Later, Finney is seen watching the 1959 horror movie “The Tingler” on TV one night, which is a scene inspired by director Derrickson doing the same thing when he was a child.
Though "Shivers" occasionally echoes a couple of its forerunners, "The Tingler" (1959) and "Night of the Living Dead" (1968), the film achieves its own peculiar power with one ingeniously lurid scene after another.
William Castle — the horror producer who wired movie seats to produce electrical jolts during screenings of “The Tingler” in 1959 — would be proud.
There’s something faintly disappointing about the way that Flanagan turns the indefinable terrors of the Overlook into a mashup of 13 Ghosts (1960), The Amityville Horror (1979) and American Horror Story: Murder House (2011).
For the century prior, a filmmaker’s toolset was limited primarily to sight and sound, but 4DX assaults audiences with touch and smell as well, improving on such short-lived 1959/’60 gimmicks as “The Tingler” (an in-seat joy buzzer rigged to vibrate on cue) and Smell-O-Vision (which spritzed nauseating perfumes at pre-programmed intervals).
It can't be an accident that Crimson Peak is suffused in blue and red filters like William Castle's 13 Ghosts: del Toro is one step removed from handing out "Illusion-O" viewers so that people can choose not to look at his bright red phantoms.
Cruise, an actor I've never warmed to, performs well enough – that goofy, toothy smile of his threatens to rip through his cheeks perhaps too often, but then there's a bit of Ray Russell's Mr. Sardonicus in that as well, an aspect of the performance that Kubrick doubtless intended, like a puppy dog eager to please despite the rolled-up newspaper.
The saddest thing about Gemini Man is that unlike The Tingler with its buzzing seats, or Polyester with its sniff-scratch cards, or Avatar with its awe inspiring 3D, there is nothing that will carry on in history about this film.
The movie talks about fear in the same way that we heard in William Castle's "The Tingler" (1960), much of which was set in a tacky movie theater where fear, in the physical form of something that looked like a soft, white lobster, crawled around under the seats attacking the paying customers.
Yes, there's a quick aside here to "The Tingler," if you're observant; an even more fleeting one to the Lon Chaney "The Hunchback of Notre Dame." (And of course the central situation is from "The Creature From the Black Lagoon" - or, perhaps more accurately, the first sequel, "Revenge of the Creature."
Ready or Not: Here I Come (2026)
Directed by Matt Bettinelli-Olpin
influenced by House on Haunted Hill (1959)
Characters
This new phase of the game is presided over by Elijah Wood’s unnamed Attorney, who’s purely a functionary here but one imbued with a nice, light touch of mischief in the vein of House on Haunted Hill’s Vincent Price or Clue’s Tim Curry performances.
On Castle, rather than any one film
He is the twenty-first century’s version of William Castle promising a viewing experience that will feel and sound real if you see his movie in a Dolby theater.