10 Best Horror Movies Set In A Cinema

The oldest movie to be featured on this list, The Tingler is a 1959 effort from cult favourite director William Castle.

Castle was famed for releasing his movies with plenty of whistles and bells accompanying them. And in the case of The Tingler, those whistles and bells meant that watching audiences had a vibrating device installed in their seats - with said device twitching to mirror the on-screen action.

Starring the legendary Vincent Price, the crux of The Tingler's plot revolves around a parasitic creature that sticks to a host's spine and feeds off fear. The more you get scared, the greater chance you have of this parasite killing you. But to get rid of this unwelcome presence, all one has to do is scream as loud as possible.

Opposite Price is Philip Coolidge as Ollie Higgins, the owner of a theater that specialises in silent films - and it's in Higgins' small cinema that so much of The Tingler takes place.

Having taken advantage of this parasite to kill his deaf-mute wife, Higgins is the ultimate villain of the piece, and his fate is one similar to his dead bride. In a move that only the dulcet, delightful tones of Vincent Price could get away with, The Tingler closes as Price's Chaplin gleefully warns the audience not to doubt the existence of the film's titular parasite.