Movie: Peeping Tom

Year: 1960

Also Known As: Face of Fear

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Genres: Crime | Horror | Thriller

Cast: Karlheinz Böhm, Moira Shearer, Anna Massey, Maxine Audley, Brenda Bruce, Miles Malleson, Esmond Knight, Michael Goodliffe, Martin Miller, Jack Watson…

Rated: 7.8/10 from 12,114 votes on IMDb

Tagline: What made this the most diabolical murder weapon ever used?

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Plot: 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…

Release Date: 15 May 1962 (USA)

Runtime: 101

Directors: Michael Powell

Writers: Leo Marks, Leo Marks

Countries: UK

Budget: £135,000

Languages: English

Location: 29 Rathbone Place, Fitzrovia, London, England, UK

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