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People disturbed by controversial Netflix documentary

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Published 16:41 29 Nov 2022 GMT

People disturbed by controversial Netflix documentary

Netflix documentary Voyeur tells the story of motel owner Gerald Foos, and it's a seriously disturbing one

Tom Wood

Tom Wood

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Topics: US News, Netflix, Film and TV, Weird

Tom Wood
Tom Wood

Tom Wood is a LADbible journalist and Twin Peaks enthusiast. Despite having a career in football cut short by a chronic lack of talent, he managed to obtain degrees from both the University of London and Salford. According to his French teacher, at the weekend he mostly likes to play football and go to the park with his brother. Contact Tom on [email protected]

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Viewers of a pretty obscure Netflix documentary are absolutely blown away by how creepy it is. You can see the trailer and get the general idea of how strange it is below.

Yeah, that’s the sort of thing we’re dealing with here.

It’s called Voyeur and it actually came out back in 2017, but for some reason loads of people are just clapping their eyes on it for the first time.

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It tells the story of Gerald Foos, a man who owned a motel in Aurora, Colorado, but kept a load of secret spyholes tucked away on the property so that he could watch people have sex in the rooms.

If that’s not absolutely bizarre – and enough to put you off staying in hotels for life – then what is?

Foos was the owner of the Manor House Motel and became the subject of an article by journalist Gay Talese called ‘The Voyeur’s Motel’ back in 2016.

Viewers have been seriously creeped out.
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Talese discovered that Foos was being voyeuristic towards people who were staying in his accommodation, having installed grilles in the ceiling of many of the rooms therein that allowed him to watch guests without their consent.

Foos was primarily concerned with observing people’s sexual behaviours, and later said that he was conducting research on them.

He actually contacted Talese to tell him what he was doing.

Foos had an observation platform in the roof of the motel, watching what people did in private.

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There’s a whole lot more to the story than that, too.

In fact, the saga turned into scandal upon scandal, with the journalistic intervention into the story arguably becoming bigger than the incredibly strange premise itself.

You’ll have to watch the whole thing to really get to grips with that, though.

The documentary film was made in 2017 by Myles Kane and Josh Koury, and currently has an 82 percent ‘fresh’ rating on Rotten Tomatoes, with the overall review on that website stating that the film is: "Absorbing, unpredictable, and overall compelling, Voyeur is a singularly unusual — and utterly memorable — documentary experience."

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Fans seem to be taken aback by how bizarre and unnerving the whole thing is, too.

Voyeur is on Netflix.
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One person tweeted: “Voyeur on Netflix is SUPER unsettling.

“The guy is so f***ing creepy, and so cocky.

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“He believes he did NOTHING wrong. Heebies, all of the heebies.”

Another person commented: “Just started the documentary Voyeur on Netflix. What. The. Actual. F***.”

A third comment read: “Watching Voyeur on Netflix.

“Gerald Foos violated people’s privacy for YEARS to satisfy his own sick need to be a peeping Tom and acts like it’s no big deal but loses his s*** because listing the value of his baseball card collections is a violation of his privacy.

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“Dude is sick.”

Told you there was more to it than meets the eye – we didn’t even need to tell you about the baseball cards.

Voyeur is available to watch on Netflix now.

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