Peeping Tom
Peeping Tom is a 1960 British psychological horror-thriller film directed by Michael Powell, written by Leo Marks, and starring Carl Boehm, Anna Massey, and Moira Shearer. The film revolves around a serial killer who murders women while using a portable film camera to record their dying expressions of terror, putting his footage together into a snuff film used for his own self pleasure. Its title derives from the expression "peeping Tom", which describes a voyeur.
Plot
In London, Mark Lewis meets Dora, a prostitute, covertly filming her with a camera hidden under his coat. Shown from the point of view of the camera viewfinder, he follows the woman into her flat, murders her, and later watches the film in his personal darkroom, a backroom he has converted so as to be able to develop his films without getting caught. The following morning, Lewis films the police's removal of Dora's corpse from her home, posing as a reporter.
More details
| author | Leo Marks |
|---|---|
| contentLocation | London |
| director | Michael Powell |
| editor | Noreen Ackland |
| events | dying serial killer |
| genre | horror thriller |
| keywords | begin birthday party blind blind mother blindness claim darkroom dead body deathbed disturb emotionally disturbed enhance even faint film film crew guinea pig human subject research kill morning psychiatrist record run shoot snuff film stand-in wait young man young woman |
| musicBy | Brian Easdale |
| producer | Michael Powell |
| productionCompany | Michael Powell |
| publisher | Anglo-Amalgamated |
| recordedAt | London Pinewood Studios |
| theme | filmmaking psychological horror psychological thriller security and surveillance serial killer slasher snuff spy |