Film:
Peeping Tom
 Year: 1960
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Country: UK Genre: Thriller
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Director:
Michael Powell |
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Starring:
Carl Boehm,
Moira Shearer, Anna Massey |
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Peeping Tom Synopsis - Peeping Tom centres around Mark Lewis who works in London movie studio as a focus puller. But in his spare time he earns money as a photographer by taking girlie pictures. Mark has an even more sinister secret - he murders women and films their expressions in their dying throes. Mark meets a young woman called Helen who rents one of the rooms in the house he lives in. Will Helen bring Mark back to reality or will she herself be put in danger of a similar fate? |
| Review of Peeping Tom - First off I must say that Peeping Tom is not an easy one to watch with its subject matter of madness, sexual violence and brutal sadism it is very challenging to the viewer. It is though a remarkable film, particularly since it was meade in 1960 when audiences were just not used to anything even approaching this in films. It is either a testament to the directors courage or madness to make such an uncompromising film especially since some of his previous films (albeit most of them many years before this one) had been considered classics (The Red Shoes, Black Narcissus, The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp). What especially is impressive in this film is that, unlike most others of this genre, is the attempt to make the "monster" still seem human, and even to try and illicit some degree of sympathy for the murderer by showing his childhood - thus the making of the monster. This added psychological aspect somehow makes the murderous violence even more chilling. |
| The reasons I recommend Peeping Tom are: 1. An uncomfortable film to watch but a very impressive story nevertheless. 2. A very fine performance of a complex character by Carl Boehm. |
