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Peeping Tom
UNITED KINGDOM · 1960

Peeping Tom

Michael Powell
voyeurism serial murder obsession with fear psychological manipulation exploitation of women
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Synopsis

Loner Mark Lewis works at a film studio during the day and, at night, takes racy photographs of women. Also he's making a documentary on fear, which involves recording the reactions of victims as he murders them. He befriends Helen, the daughter of the family living in the apartment below his, and he tells her vaguely about the movie he is making.

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