The film follows , a lonely, soft-spoken focus puller at a film studio who moonlights as a photographer of "naughty" pictures. However, Mark has a much darker obsession: he is a serial killer who murders women while filming their dying expressions.
: Mark uses a tripod with a sharpened leg to kill his victims. Most chillingly, he attaches a mirror to the camera, forcing his victims to watch their own terror-stricken faces as they die.
The title you provided refers to the controversial 1960 psychological horror film , directed by Michael Powell. When it was first released, it was so reviled by critics that it effectively ended Powell's career in Britain, though it is now celebrated as a masterpiece of the "slasher" genre and cinema-as-voyeurism. The Story of Peeping Tom
: Decades later, directors like Martin Scorsese helped champion the film, leading to its re-evaluation as a classic that explores the dark side of our own desire to watch movies.
: Mark strikes up a tentative friendship with Helen , a young woman living in his father's old house. As she grows curious about his "documentary" work, the tension peaks between Mark's desire for a normal life and his uncontrollable urge to capture the "ultimate" image of fear. Legacy and Impact
: As a child, Mark was the subject of his father’s sadistic psychological experiments. His father, a scientist studying the psychology of fear, would film Mark’s terrified reactions to lizards in his bed or other scares.