what the peeper

"What the Peeper Saw" is a 1972 thriller film directed by James Kelley and Andrea Bianchi. The movie is also known as "Night Hair Child" and stars Mark Lester, Britt Ekland, Hardy Krüger, and Lilli Palmer. The plot revolves around a wealthy authors second wife who begins to suspect that her 12-year-old stepson may have murdered his mother, who mysteriously died in a bathtub accident. The cold, precocious youngster tortures and kills animals, tells malicious lies to turn her husband against her, spies on them in bed, and forces her to strip while he reveals the truth about what happened to his mother. The film received mixed reviews and is not entirely uninteresting, but it is let down by the acting. "What the Peeper Saw" was released in Italy on October 14, 1972, and in West Germany on February 7, 1973. The movie is available to watch on Vudu.