Apathologist,Dr.WarrenChapin(playedbyVincentPrice),discoversthatthetinglingofthespineinstatesofextremefearisduetothegrowthofa"tingler"—aspinalparasitewhichcankillthehostunlessitisdestroyedbyscreaming.

Righteous district attorney Joseph Foster's main goal in life is to rid his city of the gangsters infesting it. In order to be even more efficient in his war against crime he plans to run for governor. One day he meets a…

本片描述一名自私心和嫉妒心很重的女人，为了独占她丈夫的爱，不惜接二连三做出很多不可思议的暴行，但多行不义必自毙，她最终落得个自杀的结局。本片是根据宾埃姆斯·威廉斯的原著小说改编而成，是一部传统的心理传奇片。