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Peeping Tom
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7.5Loner 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.
Cast
- Karlheinz Böhm as Mark Lewis
- Moira Shearer as Vivian
- Anna Massey as Helen Stephens
- Maxine Audley as Mrs. Stephens
- Brenda Bruce as Dora
- Miles Malleson as Elderly Gentleman Customer
Themes
- london, england
- primal fear
- photography
- obsession
- childhood trauma
- serial killer
- landlord
- boarding house
- psychological thriller
- filmmaking
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Key facts
- Directed by
- Michael Powell
- Written by
- Leo Marks
- Produced by
- Michael Powell
- Starring
- Carl Boehm Moira Shearer Anna Massey Maxine Audley
- Cinematography
- Otto Heller
- Edited by
- Noreen Ackland
- Music by
- Brian Easdale
- Production company
- Michael Powell (Theatre)
- Distributed by
- Anglo-Amalgamated Film Distributors
- Release date
- 7 April 1960 ( 1960-04-07 )
- Running time
- 101 minutes
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Language
- English
- Budget
- £133,394
- Box office
- $149,495
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Wikidata facts
- Duration
- 101
- FilmAffinity ID
- 932140
- Image
- Carl.boehm.jpg
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- publication date
- 1961-06-30
- title
- Peeping Tom
- Commons category
- Peeping Tom (film)
- review score
- 96%
- capital cost
- 125000
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Peeping Tom is a 1960 British psychological horror-thriller film directed by Michael Powell, written by Leo Marks, and starring Carl Boehm, Moira Shearer, Anna Massey and Maxine Audley. The film revolves around a serial killer who murders women while using a portable film camera to record their dying expressions of terror, putting his footage together into a snuff film used for his own self-pleasure. Its title derives from the expression "Peeping Tom", which describes a voyeur.
The film's controversial subject matter and its extremely harsh reception by critics had a severely negative impact on Powell's career as a director in the United Kingdom. However, it attracted a cult following, and in later years, it has been re-evaluated and is now widely considered a masterpiece, and a progenitor of the contemporary slasher film. The British Film Institute named it the 78th-greatest British film of all time, and in 2017 a poll of 150 actors, directors, writers, producers and critics for Time Out magazine saw it ranked the 27th-best British film ever.