spine-tingling
adjective
: very exciting, thrilling, or frightening
spine-tingling suspense
a spine-tingling performance
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Movie fans won't find any spoilers here, but bringing down the lights is an ingenious Alfred Hitchcock-like gimmick that sets up a spine-tingling surprise.
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Steven Thrash, Entertainment Weekly, 19 Oct. 2025
An intimate, spine-tingling evening of creative conversations on horror, sound, prosthetics, and spectacle featuring Danny Elfman, Akela Cooper and Janelle’s costuming team Sasha Glasser and Alex Navarro.
—Okla Jones, Essence, 15 Oct. 2025
Learn about all of these spine-tingling tales on Haunted Trolley Tours of the city, or go ghost hunting at Atchison’s haunted locales.
—Beth Luberecki, USA Today, 11 Oct. 2025
The graphical fidelity adds to the horror, as the fear and terror that takes over Hinako's face during cutscenes is spine-tingling.
—Zackery Cuevas, PC Magazine, 23 Sep. 2025
More importantly, the most recent of these sightings, just two years ago, was by a railroad passenger, so keep a lookout for a tall, hairy figure, or for massive footprints, which are also commonly reported, and listen for the mysterious creature’s spine-tingling howls.
—The Editors, Outside, 31 Aug. 2025
Creator/showrunners Alfred Gough and Miles Millar return for the spine-tingling second season of WEDNESDAY, alongside executive producer and director Tim Burton.
—Billie Melissa, MSNBC Newsweek, 7 Aug. 2025
But the 1978 take has Jeff Goldblum, Leonard Nimoy, and one of the most spine-tingling endings of all time.
—Jed Gottlieb, Boston Herald, 2 Aug. 2025
Graham Jones returns with another spine-tingling horror novel, which recounts the life of an early-century vampire that haunts a Native American reservation.
—Carly Tagen-Dye, People.com, 19 July 2025
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Steven Thrash, Entertainment Weekly, 19 Oct. 2025
An intimate, spine-tingling evening of creative conversations on horror, sound, prosthetics, and spectacle featuring Danny Elfman, Akela Cooper and Janelle’s costuming team Sasha Glasser and Alex Navarro.
—Okla Jones, Essence, 15 Oct. 2025
Learn about all of these spine-tingling tales on Haunted Trolley Tours of the city, or go ghost hunting at Atchison’s haunted locales.
—Beth Luberecki, USA Today, 11 Oct. 2025
The graphical fidelity adds to the horror, as the fear and terror that takes over Hinako's face during cutscenes is spine-tingling.
—Zackery Cuevas, PC Magazine, 23 Sep. 2025
More importantly, the most recent of these sightings, just two years ago, was by a railroad passenger, so keep a lookout for a tall, hairy figure, or for massive footprints, which are also commonly reported, and listen for the mysterious creature’s spine-tingling howls.
—The Editors, Outside, 31 Aug. 2025
Creator/showrunners Alfred Gough and Miles Millar return for the spine-tingling second season of WEDNESDAY, alongside executive producer and director Tim Burton.
—Billie Melissa, MSNBC Newsweek, 7 Aug. 2025
But the 1978 take has Jeff Goldblum, Leonard Nimoy, and one of the most spine-tingling endings of all time.
—Jed Gottlieb, Boston Herald, 2 Aug. 2025
Graham Jones returns with another spine-tingling horror novel, which recounts the life of an early-century vampire that haunts a Native American reservation.
—Carly Tagen-Dye, People.com, 19 July 2025
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“Spine-tingling.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/spine-tingling. Accessed 31 Oct. 2025.
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