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Hold onto your seat, folks. That is, if you happen to attend a screening of the new Sherlock Holmes film and you're in a theatre that happens to accommodate the technology described below - one that will literally move you.

On this date in NEPA 50 years ago, movies playing locally included "Pillow Talk," starring Doris Day and Rock Hudson, at the Comerford Drive-In; "Libel," starring Olivia de Havilland, at the West Side; and "The Tingler," starring Vincent Price, at the Strand.

Yesterday we marveled at the wonders of sound, color, 3-D and CinemaScope -- innovations that changed the way audiences viewed movies forever.

Once upon a time, meaning half a century ago, in the days when filmgoers were even more innocent and tolerant of Hollywood's enthusiasm for concocting shameless shlock than they are today, a movie called The Tingler was released.

Video Patrol: 'Life on Mars: Series 2,' 'William Castle Collection' Submitted by SHNS on Tue, 11/24/2009 - 14:54 The final eight episodes on the second box from Acorn are so incredible, I tore through them in a matter of days.

You may not have known you wanted it, but now you're going to get it. 3D redux is here with its biggest tentpole to date, Disney's $180 million Christmas Carol , followed shortly after by the release of James Cameron's Avatar .

A large standee with a photo of Hitch was outside each theater, warning that no one would be seated once the picture started and also urging moviegoers not to reveal the ending to their friends.

Q.: I recall seeing a very scary movie, I believe in the 1950s. The title was Homicidal.

Until Paranormal Activities came out, this was unquestionably the most notable horror film of the year.

"Scream, scream for your lives. The tingler is loose in the theater," yells Dr. Warren Chapin, as played by Vincent Price, during a scene from "The Tingler." The tingler, the good doctor has discovered, is the deadly creature living inside our spinal chords that gives us that tingly sensation when we're scared.

The disc: The William Castle Film Collection The details: The William Castle Film Collection piles up eight, count 'em eight, of Castle's gleefully absurd horror films from the early 1960s in one bountiful package.

This has been called the decade of The Blair Witch. The 1999 movie ushered in the use of the internet to promote films.

The problem with a TV festival of William Castle films is that they don't come with all the gimmicks that accompanied them in the original theatrical showings of his B-movies. The most famous are the random joy buzzers affixed to some theater seats during the screenings of the 1959 "The Tingler" . "Straight-Jacket" , released in 1964, featured Joan ...

Schlock that rocks. The Tingler's got it all: weird science, a mad scientist, a cheeseball monster, twisto plot, murder, good girl, bad girl, terrific performances by Vincent Price , Philip Coolidge and Judith Evelyn , the movies' first-ever acid trip and a gimmick.

A re there any really scary movies out there anymore? And as for what passes for scary today, I ask: Must they almost always be about slashing, blood and guts and scantily-clad young girls who are amorously attracted to guys you can absolutely be sure are going to die in some horrible way? Scary movies are a curse and a gift to me.

Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen Two-Disc Special Edition Bigger! Louder! Longer! All of these adjectives and more could be used to quite accurately describe Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen , Michael Bay's $200 million, 150-minute follow-up to his 2007 "Rock 'Em Sock 'Em Robots" flick, Transformers .

William Castle was part director, part producer and all showman, generating buzz for low-budget pics like 13 Ghosts , The Tingler and House on Haunted Hill with silly theater gimmicks like flying skeletons and buzzing seats -- in some ways a precursor to the much-hyped roll-out of Paranormal Activity .

The Tingler 1959 // 82 Minutes // Not Rated 13 Ghosts 1960 // 84 Minutes // Not Rated Homicidal 1961 // 87 Minutes // Not Rated Mr.

The approach of another Halloween is reason enough for video labels to start coughing up their hair-raisers. We begin our annual survey with some "safe for kiddies" fare and proceed to less wholesome diversions.

Michelle Pfeiffer and Kathy Bates star in this ill-fated romantic drama as rival courtesans in pre-World War I Paris.