Peeping Tom
Michael Powell lays bare the cinema's dark voyeuristic underside in
this disturbing 1960 psychodrama thriller. Stark terror meets art in
a deadly game of cat and mouse. Mark Lewis is the son of a famous scientist
who devoted his life to studying the psychology of fear--with young
Mark serving as guinea pig, and Mark has grown into a psychopathic killer
obsessed with capturing his victims' fear on film. He sadistically kills
young women with a blade attached to his movie camera and filming their
final, terrified moments for his definitive documentary on fear.
Due to its unsettling subject matter, Peeping Tom was initially
reviled by British film critics. The film resurfaced in the late 1970s
largely through the efforts of Martin Scorsese. Stars Karlheinz Böhm
and Anna Massey.
DVD - The Criterion Collection
- New widescreen digital transfer
- Audio essay by noted film theorist Laura Mulvey
- Original theatrical trailer
- Rare behind-the-scenes production still
- Channel 4 U.K. documentary "A Very British Psycho", directed
by Chris Rodley
- English subtitles for the deaf and hearing impaired
Curator's Comments:
Roger
Ebert's essay on this DVD Classic.
Director:
Michael Powell
Color
101 minutes
Released: 1960
Rating: NR
Country: England
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Horror/Thriller
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