Peeping Tom (1960)
poster Peeping Tom

Country:UK, 101 minutes

Spoken languages:English

Genres:Drama, Horror, Thriller

Director(s):Michael Powell

Writer(s):

Video Codec:Unknown

Number: 18

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7.8/10 (21.2K votes)

Certification:Not Rated

Storyline:
Mark Lewis, works as a focus puller in a British film studio. On his off hours, he supplies a local porno shop with cheesecake photos and also dabbles in filmmaking. A lonely, unfriendly, sexually repressed fellow, Mark is obsessed with the effects of fear and how they are registered on the face and behavior of the frightened. This obsession dates from the time when, as a child, he served as the subject of some cold-blooded experiments in the psychology of terror conducted by his own scientist father. As a grown man, Mark becomes a compulsive murderer who kills women and records their contorted features and dying gasps on film. His ongoing project is a documentary on fear. With 16mm camera in hand, he accompanies a prostitute to her room and stabs her with a blade concealed in his tripod, all the while photographing her contorted face in the throes of terror and death. Alone in his room, he surrounds himself with the sights and sounds of terror: taped screams, black-and-white "home ...

Cast:
Moira Shearer (as Vivian), Anna Massey (as Helen Stephens), Esmond Knight (as Arthur Baden), Michael Goodliffe (as Don Jarvis), Karlheinz Böhm (as Mark Lewis)

Medium: Unknown,

Comments: 128-240

Loaned: No

Aspect ratio: 1.66:1