Peeping Tom

1960

Action / Crime / Drama / Horror / Thriller

37
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 85% · 67 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 85% · 10K ratings
IMDb Rating 7.6/10 10 43331 43.3K

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Plot summary

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.

Director

Michael Powell Photo
Michael Powell

Top cast

Pamela Green Photo
Pamela Green as Milly
Michael Powell Photo
Michael Powell as Mark's Father - A.N. Lewis
Paddi Edwards Photo
Paddi Edwards as Girl Electrician
Moira Shearer Photo
Moira Shearer as Vivian
720p.BluRay 1080p.BluRay
838.3 MB
1192*720
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  
24 fps
1 hr 41 min
Seeds 6
1.6 GB
1776*1072
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  
24 fps
1 hr 41 min
Seeds 50

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by evanston_dad 7 / 10

Norman, Have I Got a Friend for You

An effectively off-beat serial killer film from Michael Powell, the visionary director that gave us "Black Narcissus" (one of my favorites of all time) and "The Red Shoes." As with those films, he chooses to shoot everything in vibrant color, enhancing the luridness of this lurid story.Carl Boehm plays the disturbed young man who enjoys filming women as he kills them and then watching the films later. He and Norman Bates, the momma's boy serial killer from "Psycho," released the same year, could write a manual on sexually motivated ritual killings. In both films, the psychology is laughably obvious and heavy-handed, though it probably seemed shocking to audiences at the time who weren't used to such frank discussions of the unsavory aspects of the human id. But the film is certainly accomplished, and reminded me somewhat of the films of Dario Argento, without the gore.Moira Shearer puts in a brief appearance as one of the victims, and even gets an inexplicable dance number to perform. While the number doesn't make a lot of sense in context of the film, she certainly looks lovely doing it. Too bad she ends up in a trunk.Grade: A-
Reviewed by Xstal 8 / 10

Girls on Film...

Years of trauma, have inspired your ideas, to capture death throes as a woman's life is speared, when the reels turn and spin, the blade is forced through bone and skin, recording nightmares for a late night premiere. It's a torment that's impossible to wipe, these negatives of life create a type, no celluloid illusion, only psychotic delusion, the development of terror, of dread, of fright.A serial killer chiller, leaves you reflecting what a master of his craft Michael Powell was, how convincing Karlheinz Böhm is as the titular character and whether you can pass off any of your less than desirable attributes to one or both parents (probably).
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