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Peeping Tom (1960 film)
| Peeping Tom | |
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| Directed by | Michael Powell |
| Written by | Leo Marks |
| Produced by | Michael Powell |
| Starring | |
| Cinematography | Otto Heller |
| Edited by | Noreen Ackland |
| Music by | Brian Easdale |
Production company | Michael Powell (Theatre) |
| Distributed by | Anglo-Amalgamated Film Distributors |
Release date |
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Running time | 101 minutes[1] |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
| Budget | £133,394[2] |
| Box office | $149,495[3] |
Peeping Tom is a 1960 British psychological horror-thriller film[4] directed by Michael Powell, written by Leo Marks, and starring Carl Boehm, Moira Shearer, Anna Massey and Maxine Audley.[5] 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.[6] However, it attracted a cult following, and in later years, it has been re-evaluated and is now widely considered a masterpiece,[7][8][9] and a progenitor of the contemporary slasher film.[6] The British Film Institute named it the 78th greatest British film of all time,[10] 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.[11]
The music score was written by Brian Easdale and performed by Australian pianist Gordon Watson.
- ^ "Peeping Tom (15)". British Board of Film Classification. 16 September 1994. Retrieved 29 October 2022.
- ^ Chapman, James (2022). The Money Behind the Screen: A History of British Film Finance, 1945–1985. Edinburgh University Press. p. 360. ISBN 9781399500760.
- ^ "Peeping Tom (1960)". The Numbers. Retrieved 26 January 2024.
- ^ Gritten, David (27 August 2010). "Michael Powell's 'Peeping Tom': the film that killed a career". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 19 July 2018.
- ^ "Peeping Tom". British Film Institute Collections Search. Retrieved 18 August 2024.
- ^ a b Navarro, Meagan (2 October 2023) [30 November 2018]. "The 30 Most Influential Slasher Movies of All Time". Vulture. Retrieved 2 September 2023.
The backlash for this British psychological horror film was so strong upon release that director Michael Powell never made another British film again.
- ^ Forshaw 2012, p. 56.
- ^ Crouse 2003, p. 167.
- ^ Vagg, Stephen (16 January 2025). "Forgotten British moguls: Nat Cohen – Part Two (1957-1962)". Filmink. Retrieved 16 January 2015.
- ^ Eckel 2014, p. 167.
- ^ Calhoun, Dave; Huddleston, Tom; Jenkins, David; Adams, Derek; Andrew, Geoff; Davies, Adam Lee; Fairclough, Paul; Hammond, Wally (17 February 2007). "The 100 best British films". Time Out London. Retrieved 24 October 2017.
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