Peeping Tom
Peeping Tom is a 1960 British psychological horror-thriller film directed by Michael Powell, written by Leo Marks, and starring Carl Boehm, Moira Shearer, Anna Massey and Maxine Audley. 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 picks up 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 her into her flat, murders her with a blade concealed in one leg of his tripod, and later watches the film in his darkroom. The following morning, posing as a reporter, he films the police removing Dora's corpse from her home.
More details
author | Leo Marks |
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contentLocation | London |
director | Michael Powell |
editor | Noreen Ackland |
events | dying serial killer |
genre | crime horror thriller |
keywords | act begin birthday party blind mother claim darkroom dead body deathbed disturb emotionally disturbed enhance even faint film film crew guinea pig human subject research kill married morning 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 |