5/5 Before She Was The Queen...
  by Bindy Sue Frønkünschtein (under the rubble)
I love Helen Mirren (Prime Suspect). She is an actor that makes every role she plays appear effortless. She's also quite the beauty, still hot in her "older" years! Watching Ms. Mirren match wits w/ her teen abductors (including a nice turn by Katie Holmes) is a pure joy! She is smart, acidic, and downright eeevil! Her Mrs. Tingle is frightening, even when bound and gagged! You can feel her hate, while watching those wicked wheels turn in her head. TEACHING MRS. TINGLE is a surprisingly intelligent and suspenseful movie. It uses its humor sparingly, never making things ridiculous. Kevin Williamson (Scream 1 and 2) deserves a lot of credit here. He uses restraint, going with a more sinister tone, when things could really have taken a much sillier turn. The only complaint I have is the PG-13 rated version. It's obvious by the "EXORCIST re-enactment" scene that words were overdubbed to miss the R rating. It sort of wrecks an otherwise hilarious sequence. Then again, they had to change the original title (Killing Mrs. Tingle) to start with. Ugh!...

3/5 very good at being bad
  by R. Bagula (Lakeside, Ca United States)
Helen Mirren does her job very well here:
I found myself wishing she were dead several times.
Sometimes the people who should be looking out for you are are actually looking to do you in for their own little bitter reasons?
It is a good teen movie of a situation
that gets out of control.

2/5 2 stars out of 4
  by One-Line Film Reviews (Easton, MD)
The Bottom Line:

A braindead movie that doesn't bother making its imbecilic plot even slightly plausible (how does Mrs. Tingle go to the bathroom?), Teaching Mrs. Tingle should be thanked for virtually ending the career of Kevin Williamson and never mentioned otherwise

4/5 What every kid would love to do to a certain teacher.
  by Timothy D. Jenckes (Warwick, RI USA)
This movie is truly great and Katie Holmes is at her best. I think that just about every kid in school would love to do what they did and I constantly watch it because it is a very good film in my opinion.

1/5 Killing Mr. Griffin....oh wait, Killing Mrs. Tingle!
  by Suedehead (the Midwest USA)
After Lois Duncan was disappointed that her teen suspense novel "I Know What You Did Last Summer" was turned into a "teen schlock film" it was highly doubtful that she'd give permission for film rights to Kevin Williamson again. So instead he just wrote it in his own words and called it "Teaching Mrs.Tingle". Anyone who read Duncan's novel can see that Williamson just stole her idea. It's even more obvious that it happened after she was unhappy of HIS treatment of her other novel. I remember seeing it in the theater so I could do a compare and contrast afterwards. The movie fails and just shoots for teen eye candy and cheap pop references that wre popular at the time that now look like dusty artifacts!