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Peeping Tom

1960

Michael Powell

Karlheinz Böhm, Moira Shearer, Anna Massey, Maxine Audley ...

7.2

7,554

Horror. Thriller As a boy, Mark Lewis was subjected to bizarre experiments by his scientist-father, who wanted to study and record the effects of fear on the nervous system. Now grown up, both of his parents dead, Mark works by day as a focus-puller for a London movie studio. He moonlights by taking girlie pictures above a news agent's shop. But Mark has also taken up a horrifying hobby: He murders women while using a movie camera to film their dying ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times	"Other movies let us enjoy voyeurism; this one extracts a price (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
United Kingdom	Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"[A] shocking and disturbing film that virtually ended Michael Powell's career (...) if anything deserves the 'dark masterpiece' tag, this does (...) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United Kingdom	David Parkinson Empire	"One of the first - and still one of the best - cinematic journeys into the mind of a psychopath (...) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Variety Staff Variety	"Powell has directed with imagination but he might well have tightened up the story line. The standout feature of Peeping Tom is some fascinating photography by Otto Heller"	NEU
United States	Ben Kenigsberg The New York Times	"While the movie’s power as a pure thriller endures, the film also leaves viewers with a disturbing implication"	POS
United Kingdom	Tim Robey Telegraph	"A canonical favourite of film theorists and horror buffs."	POS

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