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Marco Castellini
•Mark Lewis, a young assistant cameraman, uses the excuse of wanting to make a documentary to spend his free time killing girls. To commit his murders, he uses specially "ritroussé" cinematographic equipment: a tripod hiding a blade and a camera to capture the victims' looks at the moment of their death… It has been defined as "a milestone in the history of serial-killer movies"; made the same year as "Psycho", Powell's film manages to stage a terrifying killing technique connected to the very idea of cinema, with the camera at the same time a means of recording and an instrument of death. "The Eye That Kills" (original title "Peeping Tom") did not achieve any success upon its release: massacred by censorship cuts and practically ignored by the public, the film was removed from theaters after barely a week of programming. Only in 1979, thanks to director Martin Scorsese, who personally paid for the reconstruction of the full version and the re-release of the film, the work was rediscovered and revalued. In the role of the neurotic and shy protagonist, we find a very credible Karl Boehm.
