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1	* CompletelyDifferentTitle:
2	** Argentina and Peru: ''Three Faces for Fear''
3	** Belgium: ''The Lurker''
4	** Brazil: ''The Torture of Fear''
5	** Czech Republic: ''Curious''
6	** Denmark: ''Photo Models Are Hunted''
7	** Finland: ''The Face of Fear''
8	** France: ''The Voyeur''
9	** Germany: ''Eyes of Fear''
10	** Hungary: ''Cameras''
11	** Italy: ''The Eye That Kills''
12	** Mexico: ''The Photographer of Fear''
13	** Netherlands: ''The Mystery of the Missing Women''
14	** Portugal: ''The Victim of Fear''
15	** Serbia: ''Voyeur''
16	** Slovenian: ''Death in the Eyes''
17	** Spain: ''The Panic Photographer''
18	** Turkey: ''Woman Murderer''
19	* CreatorKiller: Creator/MichaelPowell's career was damaged by the film's scandal, and he struggled to find work afterwards.
20	* DawsonCasting: Dora the prostitute is referenced in the Daily Mirror headlines as a "young girl". But Brenda Bruce was 40 during shooting. Helped by her being OlderThanTheyLook.
21	* ExecutiveMeddling: The censors ordered the nudity and gore cut down. Some other bits of dialogue were trimmed as well, and the footage is considered lost today.
22	* FakeNationality: Mark is played by Austrian-German actor Carl Boehm.
23	* TheForeignSubtitle: Became ''Peeping Tom: A Sneak Peek'' in Sweden.
24	* HypotheticalCasting: Moira Shearer replaced Natasha Parry in the role of Viv. Among other actresses considered were Joan Plowright (rejected for being "too sympathetic") and Creator/JulieAndrews (rejected for being "too famous"[[labelnote:*]]Which is ironic, because she would not become world-famous until ''Film/MaryPoppins''.[[/labelnote]]). Moira herself was nearly rejected for being "too glamorous".
25	* ProductionPosse: Moira Shearer had starred in Creator/MichaelPowell's films ''Film/{{The Red Shoes\|1948}}'' and ''The Tales of Hoffman''.
26	* RealLifeRelative: The young Mark in the home movies is played by Creator/MichaelPowell's son Columba. Mark's birth mother is likewise played by Columba's real mother Frankie Reidy.
27	* RealitySubtext: Creator/MichaelPowell's own equipment was used as props for the cameras in Mark's room.
28	* WhatCouldHaveBeen: They initially wanted a star to play Mark, and Creator/DirkBogarde was the first choice. When they couldn't get him, Creator/LaurenceHarvey was attached for a while but eventually dropped out.
29	** There were plans for a remake announced for release in 1981 to be directed by ''The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Miss Osbourne'' director Walerian Borowczyk.
30	* WriteWhatYouKnow: Screenwriter Leo Marks based some of the film on his own experiences growing up above a bookstore. The prostitute who gets killed in the first scene was based on a real woman who was a frequent customer at the store.

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