william castle the director of the motion picture you're about to see i feel obligated to warn you that some of the sensations some of the physical reactions which the actors on the screen will feel will also be experienced for the first time in motion picture history by certain members of this audience i say certain members because some people are more sensitive to these mysterious electronic impulses these unfortunate sensitive people well at times feel a strange tangling sensation others will feel it less strongly but don't be alarmed you can protect yourself at any time you are conscious of a changeling sensation you may obtain immediate relief by screaming don't be embarrassed about opening your mouth and letting rip with all you've got because the person in the seat right next to you will probably be screaming too and remember this scream at the right time may save your life solution on your head and another one strapped to your leg and stranding two thousand votes between your dates let me know when it works and why this i've never found it to be necessary but it happens to be the law you know autopsy must be performed immediately after the execution just before they died as are forcing all of us that science knows nothing about the force of fear that it's strong enough to shatter the spinal column we know what it is do a great deal more than that you know it's i've been experimenting with this for three years never had a name for it until now now i think i call it the tingler you do all the  for the county to ties in with my experimental work in fear many people die in fear and i wonder how many die of fear i mean being scared to death not on the death certificate for fear causes deserved it killing those two women in cold blood like that oh yes he killed these two women and lived right down the street from where i live not for awhile at all that they couldn't even find a clue but they did if you would be able to give me a ride into town when you're done sure i'd be glad to mr oh my name's all of a heap everybody calls me just  i'm going upstairs make some coffee it's kind of old fashioned but she likes  she has to wash your hands this one drop of blood now she goes when it effects people like that did you notice how rigid she became just before she fainted she was done it's interesting because she has no vocal cords she can't release her fear you'll go downstairs and open up i'll come downstairs in a minute it's time to open up the box office we'd better go down for she won't leave anybody along that safe of hers thanks for asking me up ollie and i'm sorry i caused you all that trouble so right no harm done thanks for the ride home and everything i'm almost every night now one had with men who aren't very nice i'm ashamed of my sister lucy as soon as david and i have finished this experiment were well i have more time for you'll have more you've had another battle with is about now the same one i'm too young davids to poor in and if i do anything she doesn't approve of she will give me my share of the money i'll talk to  cut my head off young man what do you mean keeping this beautiful girl waiting you say go get a cat never chase a cat down a back alley i'm lucky to be alive did you get the big black room trouble is i don't think we can scare him prescription for one good you know from the articles i've read this is a very interesting drug so it's nitroglycerin dave where is that all for science attitude i left in my other suit now please don't fool with that stuff alone more and i can produce pretty weird effects and speaking of weird effects i saw an interesting reaction this afternoon there's this deaf mute chatter is sound and she has a blood trauma i cut my hand on a broken saucer and she went into total shock i have never seen anyone so terrified or so i'm able to release her fear tensions what happened well her husband think she fainted at the sight of blood but it isn't a true faith at all it's much more serious her under these tensions grows so great that she goes into anything they can exert such tremendous pressure on the spinal column must be something you can see touch hold in your hand it may be sister only a fraction of a second but during that fraction something inside every frightened person that is solid  have fun and i know i know don't keep david out too late because he has a hard day in the laborator to matter of fact they do not from running it was a charming little scene out there very nice kids they're in love they're old enough and i think wise enough to make a go of marriage nice kids love they've maurice is another you scientists and the words in his laboratory i'm not going to let my sister sacrifices of the way i did you may have to what do you mean you've suggested a way tad and i'm sleepy night stay awake a had nothing to do in afghanistan to know it would you like me to prove it is nonsense you can't prove any proof but you wouldn't like me to drive with you and you should remember this too darling organic poisons are like old soldiers they where are you taking me to be easier to rearrange things in the laborator life not only that you've greedily kept what was rightfully hers now i'm going to give you a choice either you give lucy half of all the money you've gotten leiber along or you commit suicide imagine when i finish rearranging things it'll look like suicide now make up your mind we want to be through with this before lucy comes up giving extra big child anything so you can put away that  pistol can make a hole in you the size of a medium grapefruit isabel he was going to use this cap that you made of but better subject let's review our problems so what do we know about the change or what do we think we know and what have we got to find out first we know that it exists and if ranken race can penetrate it then we know it's solid we know that fear alone energizes it gives its strength and that's about all we know except that the degree exists in every human being and that it's extremely powerful now what do we think we know well first that fear causes th to spread along the spinal column and probably with those are life things between the vertebra forces it to become arched and rigid to believe that screaming or perhaps any sound the human and fear can make the energizes of paralyzes an screaming seems to stop the team here from bending the spinal column screaming may even dissolve it or if it's a living organism get it and these are things we have to find out what do you think it's made of i don't know but i guess  we call death a great many things continue to live in the human body fingernails for instance continue to grow such as the formation of calcium in the bones continues life is not merely a matter of breathing in a beating heart pain without screaming or otherwise releasing their tension until they died i think that an autopsy would give us a tender that we could work with now working for the advancement of human knowledge is fine but dying for a place that your attitude dave will just have to wait until we can find someone else who is willing to die for science and eventually we will you know i've been thinking yes matter of fact i'd love a cup of coffee thank you so i've been trying to frighten myself but nothing works isn't that i'm too intelligent just too grown up kids can scare themselves by lying in the dark and making ghosts out of chairs but we can't the only way i can frighten myself is to make it real jump out of a window get run over by a car go out and in a controlled experiment with my own fear perhaps i can find out all the things we have to know call me nothing scares me saying something to the tape recorder average injection fifteen micro milligrams fifty i'm making it one hundred micro milligrams and  one thing nightmares and went away but you're having nightmares mostly there's nothing we can do to help him now effect of that acid must wear off naturally if i try to stop it or him or even minimize it with an antidote on my killing we've got to get in there isn't there another ke now i'm going to give you a shot to relax you and i'm going to give you a prescription for some barbiturates pity i'm not the type for gold i found the line of the bathroom floor through she was are cold i thought she was dead but then i picked her up she moved guess i wasn't much of a husband or no there's no way i can make up for it  do you want to know how closely is you care what time you founder and the circumstances were that it must have at about one o'clock because you know when you left i went to have a beer and then when i came home i just went in and there she was lying on the bathroom floor age forty six was there any sign of a struggle was nothing she was just lying in the bathroom floor there wasn't anything unusual about the room at all just the way it always is from her expression something must have terrified her just before she guy you haven't any idea what it was everything was locked was no sign of anyone having been good night i'm sorry about your wife is there anything i can do for your own do you  very important to you is all this time i've been jealous of you like how  oh yes i think so trusting banks here's to the ten year and your new wife i hope the new wife doesn't turn out to be as dangerous as th anything in the journals about the kingbird after all these years all this work what are you going to do david to break the laws of nature is always a dangerous thing and we've not only broken laws we violated some basic principles we had to now we're going to st you can't just hear me out gave the tingler exists in every human being we now know look at that thing that dave it's an ugly and dangerous thing glee because it's the creation of man's fear which is sadly too dangerous because because a frightening man is dangerous we can't destroy it because we've removed it from its natural place and what can we do call our way cask in the name of the funeral parlor where he left his wife we can only hope and try fear made that tender grow from microscopic size to this that we can only hope when it goes back where it came from it will also go back to a thing infinitely small what are you going to do the first i'm going to put the finger back where it came from so that if it can die it will then i'm going to call the police i'm sorry no i did what i did you gave me the idea i just fixed poison happens to exist is no excuse to commit murder with it oh i'm not blaming you but  i know she couldn't scream about the team leader and all ladies and gentlemen just a word of warning if any of you are not convinced that you have a team that of your own the next time you are frightened in the dark go scream