"Ladies And Gentlemen! 'The Tingler' Is In The Theater! Scream For Your Lives! SCREAM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

                                  Oh, darlings, "The Tingler" was hilarious!  I had forgotten the bloody bathtub and hand in Technicolor, during Judith Evelyn's big scene, nor had I recalled how much of the plot had been lifted from Henri-Georges Clouzot's 1955 film, "Diabolique."

                                     Viewers spend most of the film waiting for Judith's big scene.  Though The Tingler crawling through the theater is hilarious, and the ending with the seemingly milquetoast husband getting what he gets is priceless.  And when the dead Judith Evelyn arises from the bed, I had to ask, "Is she really dead?"

                                          This film was the crowning jewel of the evening.

                                            Unfortunately, delightful as Sventoonie and Company were, the film chosen, "The Body Beneath," a 1970 forgotten film--and deservedly so--about a vampire coming to--get this--Carfax Abbey--to breed a new family of vampires--even vampire babies; how the hell is THAT done? --was not bad enough to be campy, and not good enough to stand on its own.  Now, if he had then deconstructed "The Tingler," that would have made for a doubly interesting evening.

                                               Girls, get your fun where and while you can!  "The Tingler" was great, and I know Pippin cannot wait for next week's feature!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

                     Oh, and bring back Karen Black as "Julie."  She raises new chills in spinsterhood!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!