Peeping Tom (1960)

Directed by

Michael Powell

Genre

slasher film, horror film, crime film, thriller film

Country

United Kingdom

Runtime

1h 41m

Rated

NR

Rating

7.5 of 10 from 911 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A serial killer uses a movie camera to film the dying moments of his victims. The movie follows his lonely life and his obsession with documenting fear.

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What happens

Peeping Tom is a 1960 British psychological horror-thriller film directed by Michael Powell, written by Leo Marks, and starring Carl Boehm, Moira Shearer, Anna Massey and Maxine Audley. The film revolves around a serial killer who murders women while using a portable film camera to record their dying expressions of terror, putting his footage together into a snuff film used for his own self-pleasure. Its title derives from the expression "Peeping Tom", which describes a voyeur. The film's controversial subject matter and its extremely harsh reception by critics had a severely negative impact on Powell's career as a director in the United Kingdom. However, it attracted a cult following, and in later years, it has been re-evaluated and is now widely considered a masterpiece, a progenitor of the contemporary slasher film, and the grandfather of found footage films. The British Film Institute named it the 78th-greatest British film of all time, and in 2017 a poll of 150 actors, directors, writers, producers and critics for Time Out magazine saw it ranked the 27th-best British film ever. The music score was written by Brian Easdale and performed by Australian pianist Gordon Watson. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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