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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