Electricity had nothing to do with this.
3 seconds sound clip from the The Tingler (1959) movie soundboard.
You can hear this line at 00:04:36 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.
Quote context
[...]
- Well, if it works, then why this?
- I've never found it to be necessary. But it happens to be the law.
- An autopsy must be performed immediately after the execution.
- Interesting. This man's vertebrae are cracked. They're nearly splintered in two.
- Electricity had nothing to do with this.
- I've seen this phenomenon many times in people who were badly frightened just before they died.
- There's a force in all of us that science knows nothing about. The force of fear.
- That it's strong enough to shatter the spinal column, we know.
- But what it is what causes it to appear and disappear, we don't know. Some day I hope to find out.
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