Peeping Tom
1960 · TMDB 7.4
Directed by Michael Powell
Loner Mark Lewis works at a film studio during the day and, at night, takes racy photographs of women. Also he's making a documentary on fear, which involves recording the reactions of victims as he murders them. He befriends Helen, the daughter of the family living in the apartment below his, and he tells her vaguely about the movie he is making.
Why it matters
Michael Powell's career-ending masterpiece, in which a studio focus puller murders women with his camera and films their dying faces. Carl Boehm's Mark Lewis is a study in soft-spoken obsession, and the film's hostile reception proved its point about respectable British cinema's...
- Runtime
- 101 min
- Released
- 1960-04-07
- Studio
- Michael Powell (Theatre)
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Language
- English
- TMDB score
- 7.4
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