My friend and New Times colleague Dewey Webb passed on
yesterday, at 64. New Times gave me the privilege of writing his obit.
In Dewey’s honor…
Monster-of-the-Week: …let’s acknowledge a monster from one
of his favorite filmmakers, gimmick-master William Castle: the title character
from 1959’s The Tingler…
Scientist Vincent Price discovers that the multi-legged creepy-crawly
forms on the human spine and awakens during moments of terror, thus causing the
“tingle.” Screaming is the only defense against it, so Price is eventually able
to remove a live specimen from the body of a mute woman who died of fright. But
he doesn’t take proper biohazard precautions, to his misfortune…
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