Peeping Tom

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Peeping Tom

1962,

1h 49m,

Horror/

Mystery & Thriller

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95%

65 Reviews

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85%

10,000+ Ratings

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95%

Tomatometer

65 Reviews

85%

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10,000+ Ratings

Loner Mark Lewis (Carl Boehm) 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 (Anna Massey), the daughter of the family living in the apartment below his, and he tells her vaguely about the movie he is making. She sneaks into Mark's apartment to watch it and is horrified by what she sees -- especially when Mark catches her.

Critics Consensus

Peeping Tom is a chilling, methodical look at the psychology of a killer, and a classic work of voyeuristic cinema.

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Budd Wilkins

Slant Magazine

May 24, 2024

Michael Powell’s elegant and disturbing Peeping Tom turns its camera eye on an unhealthy obsession with all things cinematic.

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Anton Bitel

Little White Lies

Jan 10, 2024

Here voyeurism itself looks outwards and inwards, confounding perpetrator and victim, filmmaker and viewer, camera and phallic weapon, while observing a pathology as metacinematic as it is psychiatric.

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Kevin Maher

The Times (UK)

Oct 27, 2023

5/5

The film remains dangerous and brilliant...

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Sarah Boslaugh

TheArtsStl

Feb 1, 2025

8/10

...an astonishing film that doesn’t lose its power upon repeated viewings.

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Sharai Bohannon

A Nightmare On Fierce Street Podcast

Dec 30, 2024

3/5

'Peeping Tom' is an interesting predecessor for many subgenres we know and love. There are moments when the camera work is stunning and the film has so much to unpack that it's worth a few rewatches.

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Dennis Harvey

48 Hills

Aug 30, 2024

Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger together created films of unusual conceptual ambition and high style for UK cinema...

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Michael Powell

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Karlheinz Böhm

Mark Lewis

Moira Shearer

Vivian

Anna Massey

Helen Stephens

Maxine Audley

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Synopsis

Loner Mark Lewis (Carl Boehm) 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 (Anna Massey), the daughter of the family living in the apartment below his, and he tells her vaguely about the movie he is making. She sneaks into Mark's apartment to watch it and is horrified by what she sees -- especially when Mark catches her.

Director: Michael Powell
Producer: Michael Powell
Screenwriter: Leo Marks
Distributor: Astor Pictures Corporation, 20th Century Fox, Image Entertainment Inc.
Production Co: Anglo-Amalgamated Productions
Genre: Horror, Mystery & Thriller
Original Language: British English
Release Date (Theaters): May 15, 1962, Wide
Release Date (Streaming): Mar 11, 2017
Box Office (Gross USA): $23.0K
Runtime: 1h 49m
Sound Mix: Mono

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