Peeping Tom

Peeping Tom

1960 · 101 min · EN · NR · 7.4 (681 votes)
Dir. Michael Powell · Starring Karlheinz Böhm, Moira Shearer, Anna Massey, Maxine Audley, Brenda Bruce, Miles Malleson · Music Brian Easdale

What made this the most diabolical murder weapon ever used?

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Loner Mark Lewis works at a film studio during the day and, at night, takes racy photographs of women. Also he's making a documentary on fear, which involves recording the reactions of victims as he murders them. He befriends Helen, the daughter of the family living in the apartment below his, and he tells her vaguely about the movie he is making.

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This is a deeply unsettling, voyeuristic slow-burn that explores the darkest corners of the human psyche and the power of the cinematic gaze. It's a chilling, proto-slasher experience, steeped in psychological dread and a tragic, disturbing atmosphere.

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