Psycho, with its magnificently pitiable madman Norman Bates, came out a year later, and there’s no question about that film’s greatness and influence. But this icky Brit horror film, written by Leo Marks and directed by Michael Powell, deserves inclusion as an early study in psychosexual sadism. Young Mark’s little quirk is that he can feel erotic fulfillment only when he films his female victims as he murders them. The movie camera, Powell says, is a fatal weapon, in a crime committed for the pleasure of… you, dear complicitous viewer.
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EVIL CHARACTERS
- George Siegmann as Silas Lynch
- Peter Lorre as Hans Beckert
- Margaret Hamilton as the Wicked Witch of the West
- Joseph Cotten as Uncle Charlie
- Barbara Stanwyck as Phyllis Dietrichson
- Ann Savage as Vera
- Marcel Herrand as Lacenaire
- Lionel Barrymore as Henry F. Potter
- Denis Price as Louis Mazzini
- James Cagney as Cody Jarrett
- Toshiro Mifune as Tajomaru
- Prithviraj as Justice Raghunat
- Carl Boehm as Mark Lewis
- Angela Lansbury as Mrs. Iselin
- Robert Mitchum as Max Cady
- Henry Fonda as Frank
- Klaus Kinski as de Aguirre
- Laurence Olivier as Dr. Christian Szell
- Arnold Schwarzenegger as the Terminator
- Michelle Pfeiffer as Catwoman
- Anthony Wong as Wong Chi-hang
- Ralph Fiennes as Amon Goeth
- Ving Rhames as Marsellus Wallace
- Anthony Hopkins as Hannibal Lecter
- Ian McDiarmid as Palpatine