In this edition of Ghoulvie Screamset Horrortober, Will and Hesse are joined by the writer, director and star of STRESS POSITIONS, Theda Hammel, to discuss two horror films about serial killers.
First is Michael Powell’s PEEPING TOM (1960) which stands along with Hitchcock’s PYSCHO as one of the first movies to connect having a parent to something called “psychology” which is what makes people into sexually-depraved murderers. Banned in the UK following its initial release for being too twisted, PEEPING TOM follows a victim of parents and psychology, aspiring filmmaker Mark Lewis, who makes documentaries about killing women with a camera tripod as he records their final moments.
Next up is perhaps the most genuinely upsetting and sickening movie we’ve ever done, John McNaughton’s HENRY: PORTRAIT OF A SERIAL KILLER starring Michael Rooker as “Henry” a drifter who we the viewer follow as we observe his behavior and methods of murdering women and eventually begin to feel complicit in his nauseating crimes.
Both films strongly investigate the nature of watching other people on screens and imply there is something inherently perverse about making and watching movies.
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