“Fear, as it turns out, is the most frightening thing in the world, and Peeping Tom makes us feel it palpably as few films have been able to do.”
Awkward loner, Mark Lewis (Carl Boehm), works at a film studio by day and takes racy photographs of women by night. He's also making a documentary on fear - a pet project of questionable ethics which is further complicated when he finds himself falling for the Helen (Anna Massey), the kindly daughter of the blind woman who lives in the flat below. Both hugely controversial and a massive flop upon its release, Peeping Tom effectively finished the career of legendary film maker, Michael Powell, but has since been reappraised as a pyschological masterpiece on the voyeristic nature of film-making and one of the creepiest films of the 60s - or any other decade.
