Peeping Tom (1960)
Posted: 01 Oct 2010, 10:16
O filmu:
Peeping Tom is a 1960 British psychological horror/thriller film directed by Michael Powell. The title derives from the slang expression 'peeping Tom' describing a voyeur. The film, which also contains the themes of serial murder and child abuse, revolves around a young man who murders women while using a portable movie camera to record their dying expressions of terror. The film was written by the World War II cryptographer and polymath Leo Marks.
Contents.
Glumačka postava:
Carl Boehm
Moira Shearer
Anna Massey
Maxine Audley
Plot:
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?
Trailer:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pV2YsvkJGas
Poster:
Peeping Tom is a 1960 British psychological horror/thriller film directed by Michael Powell. The title derives from the slang expression 'peeping Tom' describing a voyeur. The film, which also contains the themes of serial murder and child abuse, revolves around a young man who murders women while using a portable movie camera to record their dying expressions of terror. The film was written by the World War II cryptographer and polymath Leo Marks.
Contents.
Glumačka postava:
Carl Boehm
Moira Shearer
Anna Massey
Maxine Audley
Plot:
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?
Trailer:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pV2YsvkJGas
Poster:
