Mark was raised a test subject for his father, a psychologist studying fear in his child growing up. There was always a camera on the boy to record his fearful reaction to different situations and scares put upon him.
As an adult now he studies fear in others - young women he kills and films at the moment they realize that they are about to die. Basically, he was making snuff before the genre was widely known. And he is desperately trying to get caught, barely taking any precaution when killing and returning to the scene of the crime to film police at work and people's reaction when the bodies are discovered.
Ironically the one person that 'sees' right through him and realizes how troubled he is, is the blind woman living downstairs.
The film received harsh reviews when it was released, practically ending director Michael Powell's career. In the 1970s, however, it received reappraisal and has since become a cult film, prompting Mr. Powell's comment in his autobiography, "I make a film that nobody wants to see and then, thirty years later, everybody has either seen it or wants to see it."
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