Peeping Tom
Peeping Tom • 1h 42m
Directed by Michael Powell • 1960 • United Kingdom
Starring Carl Boehm, Moira Shearer, Anna Massey
Having brought British cinema into exalted realms of fantasy and imagination, Michael Powell took a dark detour into obsession, voyeurism, and violence with this groundbreaking metacinematic investigation into the mechanics of fear. Armed with his killer camera, photographer and filmmaker Mark Lewis (Carl Boehm) unleashes the traumas of his childhood by murdering women and recording their deaths—until he falls for his downstairs neighbor, and finds himself struggling against his dark compulsions. Received with revulsion upon its release only to be reclaimed as a masterpiece, the endlessly analyzed, still-shocking PEEPING TOM dares viewers to confront their own relationship to the violence on-screen.
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PEEPING TOM Commentary
In this 1994 commentary, film theorist Laura Mulvey gives her insights on the film’s production history, controversy, and potent psychological obsessions.
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A Very British Psycho
Directed and written by filmmaker and writer Chris Rodley, this documentary examines the life and work of PEEPING TOM screenwriter Leo Marks, as well as the making and critical reception of the film itself. A VERY BRITISH PSYCHO is distributed under license from Channel 4 International Limited.
