Peeping Tom (1960)Director: Michael Powell
Writer: Leo Marks
Starring: Karlheinz Böhm, Moira Shearer, and Anna Massey
Co-Starring: Maxine Audley, Brenda Bruce, and Esmond Knight
Description: As a boy, Mark Lewis was subjected to bizarre experiments by his scientist-father, who wanted to study and record the effects of fear on the nervous system. Now grown up, both of his parents dead, Mark works by day as a focus-puller for a London movie studio. He moonlights by taking girlie pictures above a news agent's shop. But Mark has also taken up a horrifying hobby: He murders women while using a movie camera to film their dying expressions of terror. One evening, Mark meets and befriends Helen Stephens, a young woman who rents one of the rooms in his house. Does Helen represent some kind of possible redemption for Mark - or is she unknowingly running the risk of becoming one of his victims?
Rating: A-
In a word... unnerving.
Note: I watched this at the Music Box Massacre 3, at the Music Box Theatre in Chicago.
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