Anna Massey, Esmond Knight, Karlheinz Bohm
Mark Lewis, assistant cameraman at a London film studio, aspiring movie director, part-time taker of pornographic pictures, and amateur documentary film-maker, has begun murdering women. He kills them...( read more
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DVD Release Date: November 16, 1999
Stats: 491 reviews
Mild by today's standards but caused quite a stir in 1960. Peeping Tom is now a little dated but still fantastically bizarre and frightening.
Peeping Tom is the first film wherein the placement of the camera put the audience in the killer's shoes and implicates them in the murders on film. This technique has really become part of the horror cannon and used many times since then, most prominently in Halloween. This is a...( read more)
Michael Powell, the distinguished English director, probably contributed to his own demise from the film industry with "Peeping Tom", a movie that proved to be well ahead of its times and a masterpiece by this man who gave so much to enhance the industry in Great Britain. In fact...( read more)
Unsettling classic horror film is disturbing study of a serial killer who is compelled to film his victims. So reviled upon its release in 1960, it essentially ended director Michael Powell's career. Even today, the movie's attempt to understand, even sympathize, with a sociop...( read more)
A shy but demented cameraman is obsessed with the idea of documenting fear, and takes it upon himself to gather the footage he needs. This pic is as much an intense character study as a stylish thriller; it was Powell's audacity in forcing the audience to understand and even sym...( read more)
I consider the film to be merely good. Many of the mechanics have dated , with some clumsy use of dialogue, date...( read more)
The British Psycho. As twisted as a killer's mind. One of the greatest horror/thrillers out there, even nowadays.
87/100
Classic material, again. Decades ahead of it's time, and truly brilliant work by Powell. As it's done the same year as Hitchcock's Psycho (1960), I must admit, the British raised the horror film on to a new level back then. Recommended!
Aug 09 - Such a powerful psychological drama. Leaves me twisting and turning. You are the voyeur and no wonder you feel so much sympathy with him.
Maybe it was more shocking for its time but it built too slowly. It was interesting seeing Anna Massey in such an early part, but it simply wasn't lurid enough, was too understated and almost gentlemanly in its telling.
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