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Peeping Tom (1960) 7.7
A young man murders women, using a movie camera to film their dying expressions of terror. Director:Michael Powell |
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Karlheinz Böhm | ... |
Mark Lewis
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Vivian
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Helen Stephens
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Dora
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Elderly Gentleman Customer
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Arthur Baden
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Don Jarvis
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Dr. Rosen
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Chief Insp. Gregg
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Pauline Shields
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Milly
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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 ... Written by alfiehitchie
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Years ahead of its time and still one of the most disturbing and psychologically complex horror films ever made! (DVD) See more »Parents Guide:
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Country:
UKLanguage:
EnglishRelease Date:
15 May 1962 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
Face of Fear See more »Box Office
Budget:
£135,000 (estimated)Opening Weekend:
$77,752 (USA) (7 May 1999)Gross:
$83,957 (USA) (20 August 1999)Company Credits
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Mono (Westrex Recording System)Color:
Color (Eastmancolor)Aspect Ratio:
1.66 : 1
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[Mark approaches the prostitute, covertly filming her]
Dora: It'll be two quid
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When the trunk with the body is opened, the woman scans the body from left to right (from our perspective), and as soon as she sees the right side, she stares and screams. However, when we finally see the body inside, the head is on the left side. See more »Quotes
[first lines][Mark approaches the prostitute, covertly filming her]
Dora: It'll be two quid
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In London, the lonely photographer Mark Lewis (Carl Boehm) works in a film studio and moonlights supplying cheesecake photos to a magazine store. He lives in the huge house that he had inherited from his parents that is rented to tenants to help him pay the bills and keep the building. Mark was the subject of bizarre experiments of effects of the fear conducted by his scientist father since he was a child and he has become a disturbed man obsessed by the face of frightened women in the moment of death. He kills women filming their faces while he stabs them in the throat.
When Mark meets his neighbor and tenant Helen Stephens (Anna Massey) on the day of her birthday, he befriends her and sooner he dates the young woman. Mark has a crush on Helen and does not want to film her. But Mark is one of the suspects and a detective is tracking down Mark.
"Peeping Tom" is a good film with an unusual serial-killer, since Mark Lewis is an educated and likable character and also a victim of the experiments of his cruel and abusive father. His character creates a great empathy with the viewers and despite being a murderer, he is charismatic. I believe that the feelings of Helen for him are shared by most of the viewers. My vote is seven.
Title (Brazil): "A Tortura do Medo" ("The Torture of the Fear")