The Price of Fear by Joel Eisner

Author:Joel Eisner [Eisner, Joel]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780988659025
Publisher: Black Bed Sheet Books
Published: 2013-12-15T00:00:00+00:00

According to Castle, he invented the Percepto process one night when the bulb in his reading lamp went out. While attempting to change the bulb, he received an electric shock from a damaged cord. Suddenly, he came up with the idea of shocking the seats of his audience with electric motors during the film.

After the collapse of his flying skeleton during the preview, Castle thought it best to try out the electric motors on a test audience just in case something went wrong, And as screenwriter Robb White recalls, something did, “Bill Castle had the idea that if we take the motors out of thousands of vibrators and screw them under the theater seats, then rig the wiring so that at crucial moments in the film, the audience would suddenly begin vibrating in waves, six rows at a time. We didn’t want to buy thousands of vibrators without knowing whether they would really work out, so we scouted around until we found a theater in the Valley that was running The Nun’s Story.” The film was going to close on Sunday night and The Tingler was going to preview on Monday. We got in a huge crew of people to spend the day attaching the vibrators to the seats. But that night, just at the most tragic moment of The Nun’s Story,” somebody touched the master switch and the seats began vibrating in wave after wave. There was absolute pandemonium!”

Weeks later when the film opened nationwide, the producers discovered faced another problem, kids. “They came and unscrewed the motors, broke them off and stole them. And they cost a lot of money.”

One of the unique aspects of the film was its depiction of drug usage. In an attempt to experience the effects of the Tingler, Vincent induces fear by taking an injection of LSD. But as Robb White remembers, the screen version of the acid trip was not what he had wanted. “I wanted something different from the typical shot that you see in movie ‘trips’. Author Aldous Huxley told me about a doctor at UCLA who was running an experiment on Lysurigic Acid (LSD). So, I went up there to see this man, Dr. Cohen, and he gave me some of it. He took me into a nice little room with a cot and a radio and he got something out of his refrigerator and gave me a shot. It was all legal then. I watched the grain in the wood writhing around and listened to the music. It was very pleasant, although I didn’t ever want to do it again.”

“I went back and told Vincent about it, what the real reaction would be, I just wondered if it wasn’t something that Vincent could be dramatic about without falling around and all that stuff. He said, “Forget it.” And when he took the shot, he jumped around and did the same damned thing he always did! Whenever you killed Vincent Price in a movie, he was always so dramatic about it, he writhe around and screams and hollers and carries on.

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