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  • Elbow Lippy Kids The first track to emerge from Elbow's upcoming fifth album via a live studio video posted on their website is a typically bruised and beautiful spine-tingler.

    F&M playlist 2011

  • "The Talented Mr. Ripley" is a high-end spine-tingler, and Robison lavishes on it the tasteful attention the story deserves.

    Karl Miller shines as 'Talented Mr. Ripley' at Round House Theatre 2010

  • Spine-tingler 400 cubits: This power allows one unit to infect another unit in the game, causing erratic actions.

    First look at secret features from the Battlestar Galactica MMO 2010

  • These pictures may be less entertaining in the moment, but often end up shedding valuable perspective on the human condition -- insight you won't find in your average spine-tingler or farce.

    John Farr: Amidst Endless Options and Distractions, Are Serious Films An Endangered Species? 2009

  • Calling the technology "Percepto," Mr. Castle installed dozens of buzzers underneath the theaters seats that film operator could trigger that was intended to simulate "the tingler" lose in the movie theatre.

    Can 3-D Save Hollywood? 2009

  • And after reading your description I found that I wanted it to be a tingler and was mildly disappointed that it was not.

    31 Screams: Jennie Linden Arbogast 2008

  • As such, looking at the screengrabs, before reading your description, I thought perhaps she was looking down at some horrible slithery creature like a tingler or something.

    31 Screams: Jennie Linden Arbogast 2008

  • There are plenty of family secrets unearthed in pursuing the mysterious events at the orphanage, some a bit predictable, others out of the blue, and some just downright crazy, but cumulatively they make this more than a spine-tingler, they make it a layered piece of intrigue that really draws the viewer into the world on screen.

    THE ORPHANAGE | Obsessed With Film 2008

  • Clinton could have delivered the address of a lifetime, a Churchillian spine-tingler.

    Dancing With The Enemy 2008

  • Hitchcock's psychological tingler was not a huge success on release (the director blamed Stewart's age), but has achieved cult status over time.

    John Farr: James Stewart: On the Actor's Centennial, His Ten Best Films 2008

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