Peeping Tom
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Actor: Brenda Bruce, John Barrard, John Dunbar, Karlheinz B?hm, Maxine AudleyPrimary Contributor: Karlheinz B?hm
Primary Contributor: Anna Massey
Edition: VHS Tape
Audio: English (Original Language), Analog
Format: Color, Letterboxed, NTSC, Widescreen
Running Time: 101 minutes
Release Date: 2000-06-13
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Publisher: Homevision
Studio: Homevision
VHS Movie Reviews of Peeping Tom
Movie Review: I don't get it!
Summary: 1 Stars
I'm watching the end of this movie right now, and I can honestly say it stinks! Not enough to make me stop it mind you. I want to see how it ends, but jeez this thing is boring and way dated, oh he just died. I just don't care.
Summary of Peeping Tom
Stark terror meets art in a deadly game of cat and mouse. Mark Lewis is the son of a famous scientist who devoted his life to studying the psychology of fear--with young Mark serving as guinea pig, and Mark has grown into a psychopathic killer obsessed with capturing his victims' fear on film. Due to its unsettling subject matter, Peeping Tom was initially reviled by British film critics. The film resurfaced in the late 1970s largely through the efforts of Martin Scorsese, and is now considered a classic. A superb cast and taut direction make Peeping Tom a riveting psychological thriller.Michael Powell lays bare the cinema's dark voyeuristic underside in this disturbing 1960 psychodrama thriller. Handsome young Carl Boehm is Mark Lewis, a shy, socially clumsy young man shaped by the psychic scars of an emotionally abusive parent, in this case a psychologist father (Michael Powell in a perverse cameo) who subjected his son to nightmarish experiments in fear and recorded every interaction with a movie camera. Now Mark continues his father's work, sadistically killing young women with a phallic-like blade attached to his movie camera and filming their final, terrified moments for his definitive documentary on fear. Set in contemporary London, which Powell evokes in a lush, colorful seediness, this film presents Mark as much victim as villain and implicates the audience in his scopophilic activities as we become the spectators to his snuff film screenings. Comparisons to Hitchcock's Psycho, released the same year, are inevitable. Powell's film was reviled upon release, and it practically destroyed his career, ironic in light of the acclaim and success that greeted Psycho, but Powell's picture hit a little too close to home with its urban setting, full color photography, documentary techniques, and especially its uneasy connections between sex, violence, and the cinema. We can thank Martin Scorsese for sponsoring its 1979 rerelease, which presented the complete, uncut version to appreciative American audiences for the first time. This powerfully perverse film was years ahead of its time and remains one of the most disturbing and psychologically complex horror films ever made. --Sean Axmaker
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