Peeping Tom

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jay f For a 1960 crown endeavor, it’s pretty good. Rated 3.5/5 Stars •  Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 11/03/24 Full Review Julian S “Peeping Tom” is a landmark in voyeuristic cinema, offering a haunting look at a killer's psychology, all wrapped in striking, dramatic lighting that deepens its disquieting allure. Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 09/30/24 Full Review Audience Member First class suspence thriller I remember it well . Time for a rewatch Rated 4.5/5 Stars •  Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 08/23/24 Full Review Jonathan O One of the best cinematic horror of the 60's it is the British version of Psycho and Peeping Tom is a masterpiece of slasher and the cinematography looks unique beautiful shot and quite disturbing and uncomfortable for viewers and Michael Powell did really fantastic director but sadly the critics gone to far for not allowing Powell to make more films. Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 07/12/24 Full Review babarizam D One of a greatest movie in the history of cinema. Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 07/09/24 Full Review Wayne K It's truly incredible to look back and consider which films were vilified upon release. One thing they invariably have in common is that they look incredibly tame by today's standards, even laughably so, and that's exactly where Peeping Tom comes in. Released just a few months earlier than Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho, which would redefine the horror genre and help created the slasher subgenre, its critical mauling effectively destroyed director Michael Powell's career, something you can do nowadays with a single ill-advised tweet. And it's such a shame, because Peeping Tom isn't just a pale imitation of Psycho, it's a fantastic horror film in its own right. Much like the Hitchcock classic, it's a psychological study of a disturbed young man with a bizarre relationship with his family, and it heavily utilises the theme of voyeurism to both tell its story and put the audience into the mind of the lead. To see the crimes through the mind of a killer is to be complicit in them, and it might have been this realisation that so disgusted audiences in 1960, or maybe it was because the decade hadn't got swinging yet and everyone was still so uptight. It's far less bloody than most horror films released every year, focusing more on the mentality of the killer rather than the kills themselves. The music doesn't work as well as Bernard Hermann's legendary score from Psycho, but in many ways the film is just as good, if not very close. A compelling lead, disturbing themes, kills that are more frightening than bloody and a tension and creepiness that pervades every scene make Peeping Tom a truly underrated classic, and a film that deserves the reputation it's earned in later years, and never warranted such a violent backlash in the first place. Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 01/20/24 Full Review Read all reviews

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