Helen Stephens

Headless (2000)

Actors: Wojtek Wawszczyk (director), Lindsey Readman (actor),

Genres: Short,

Peeping Tom (1960)

Actors: Michael Powell (producer), Nat Cohen (miscellaneous crew), Nigel Davenport (actor), Anna Massey (actress), Pete Murray (actor), Michael Powell (director), Brenda Bruce (actress), Michael Powell (actor), Michael Goodliffe (actor), Esmond Knight (actor), Karlheinz Böhm (actor), Miles Malleson (actor), Martin Miller (actor), George Harrison Marks (miscellaneous crew), Shirley Anne Field (actress),

Plot: Mark Lewis, works as a focus puller in a British film studio. On his off hours, he supplies a local porno shop with cheesecake photos and also dabbles in filmmaking. A lonely, unfriendly, sexually repressed fellow, Mark is obsessed with the effects of fear and how they are registered on the face and behavior of the frightened. This obsession dates from the time when, as a child, he served as the subject of some cold-blooded experiments in the psychology of terror conducted by his own scientist father. As a grown man, Mark becomes a compulsive murderer who kills women and records their contorted features and dying gasps on film. His ongoing project is a documentary on fear. With 16mm camera in hand, he accompanies a prostitute to her room and stabs her with a blade concealed in his tripod, all the while photographing her contorted face in the throes of terror and death. Alone in his room, he surrounds himself with the sights and sounds of terror: taped screams, black-and-white "home movies" of convulsed faces. At his house, he meets Helen Stephens, a young woman who lives with her blind mother in a downstairs flat. She visits his flat, where he shows her black-and-white films that were taken of him when he was a child. She is horrified to see that his father used him as a guinea pig in various experiments, taking movies of his reactions of fear.

Keywords: abuse, actress, alcohol, bare-breasts, biologist, birthday, birthday-cake, birthday-party, birthday-present, black-comedy
Genres: Horror, Thriller,
Taglines: Stark Terror Meets Art in a Deadly Game of Cat and Mouse. (DVD) Years ahead of its time and still one of the most disturbing and psychologically complex horror films ever made! (DVD) "Do you know what the most FRIGHTENING thing in the world is ...?" Terror Meets Art in a Deadly Game of Cat and Mouse WARNING! Don't see Peeping Tom unless you are prepared to see the screaming shock and raw terror in the faces of those marked for death! Can you see yourself in this picture? Can you imagine yourself facing the terror of a diabolical killer? Can you guess how you'd look? You'll live that kind of excitement, suspense, horror, when you watch "Peeping Tom". Don't dare tell the ending to anyone - you'll be blamed for nightmares! What made this the most diabolical murder weapon ever used? An adventure into terror More Horrible Than Horror! More Terrible Than Terror!

Quotes:

Mark Lewis: Do you know what the most frightening thing in the world is? It's fear.

Vivian: What would frighten me to death? Set the mood for me, Mark.::Mark Lewis: Imagine... someone coming towards you... who wants to kill you... regardless of the consequences.::Vivian: A madman?::Mark Lewis: Yes. But he knows it - and you don't.

Mr. Peters: Got a question for you. Which magazine sells the most copies?::Mark Lewis: Those with girls on the front covers and no front covers on the girls.

Mrs. Stephens: Instinct's a wonderful thing, isn't it, Mark? A pity *it* can't be photographed. If I'd listened to it years ago, I - I might have kept my sight. I wouldn't have let a man operate I had no faith in.

[first lines]::[Mark approaches the prostitute, covertly filming her]::Dora: It'll be two quid

Arthur Baden: The silly bitch! She's fainted in the wrong scene!

Mark Lewis: Whatever I photograph I always lose.

Mrs. Stephens: I visit this room every night.::Mark Lewis: Visit?::Mrs. Stephens: The blind always live in the rooms they live under.

Mark Lewis: It's no good. The lights fade too soon::Mrs. Stephens: They always do.::Mark Lewis: I... I have to try again.::Mrs. Stephens: What do you think you've spoiled?::Mark Lewis: An opportunity. Now I have to find another one.

Helen Stephens: I like to understand what I'm shown.