Stripped of its color and some excellent photography plus imaginative direction by Michael Powell, the plot itself would have emerged as a shoddy yarn.
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09/19/07
Peeping Tom (1960)
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Reviews Counted:30
Fresh:28
Rotten:2
Average Rating:8.2/10
Consensus: Peeping Tom is a chilling, methodical look at the psychology of a killer, and a classic work of voyeuristic cinema.
Runtime: 1 hr 41 mins
Genre: Horror/Suspense
Synopsis: Michael Powell directed this groundbreaking study in voyeurism, cinema, and obsession. When Mark was a child, his father, a highly esteemed professor, used him as a form of laboratory rat in a... [More]
Starring: Carl Boehm, Moira Shearer, Anna Massey, Maxine Audley
Director: Michael Powell
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Reviews for Peeping Tom
Peeping Tom's rediscovery, I fear, tells us more about fads in film criticism than it does about art.
05/09/05
Peeping Tom's classic status is beyond doubt.
09/19/07
A remarkable examination of the psychology of filmmaking and film viewing, and one of the most disturbing films ever made.
01/01/00
An audacious, clinical, and ruthlessly frank thriller.
06/13/01
Measured, methodical, and conceptually perverse.
01/01/00
Though it effectively ended Mr. Powell's career, Peeping Tom is now considered a once-forbidden classic, an audacious act of self-cannibalization in which cinema itself is a lethal weapon.
05/01/03
Top CriticNo review available.
09/06/08
No review available.
03/06/04
It's an understanding and at times even celebratory film -- attitudes that scandalized critics years ago and are still pretty potent today.
09/19/07
Top CriticOne of the first -- and still one of the best -- cinematic journeys into the mind of a psychopath.
04/04/01
No review available.
08/09/02
This is a film about scoptophilia (voyeurism)...
01/01/00
A Freudian script of notable maturity teases limitless implications from this premise, while maintaining a healthy sense of humour.
06/24/06
Today, thanks largely to a 1980 revival engineered by Powell enthusiast and fellow director Martin Scorsese, Peeping Tom is rightly seen as a horror classic and sophisticated psychological journey.
01/01/00
Top CriticNo review available.
06/29/05
No review available.
08/19/04
The original first-person horror film.
09/26/02
Top CriticNo review available.
08/24/05
Contains the most lurid use of Technicolor ever.
01/01/00
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