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VHS : Peeping Tom [1960]
starring: Karlheinz Böhm, Anna Massey, Moira Shearer, Maxine Audley, Brenda Bruce
directed by: Michael Powell
directed by: Michael Powell
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Audience Rating: Suitable for 18 years and over Binding: VHS Tape EAN: 5014780381872 Format: PAL Label: Warner Home Video Manufacturer: Warner Home Video Number Of Discs: 1 Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: Warner Home Video Release Date: February 26, 1996 Running Time: 96 minutes Sales Rank: 7644 Studio: Warner Home Video Theatrical Release Date: May 15, 1962 |
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Editorial Review:
Amazon.co.uk Review:
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 (the director 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, colourful 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 colour photography, documentary techniques and especially its uneasy connections between sex, violence and the cinema. We can thank Martin Scorsese for sponsoring its 1979 re-release, which presented the complete, uncut version to appreciative 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, Amazon.com
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- Fear - Shock - Terror!This is a strange movie about a man who was filmed constantly as a child and as he grew up by his father. Consequently, he now uses the camera himself - but for more sinister purposes! Though there are murders in this movie, it deals more with fear, shock and terror.
Anna Massey stars as a young woman celebrating her 21st Birthday and gets to know whom she believes is just a fellow lodger to actually be her Landlord.
Interesting piece of art from 1960.
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- Michael Powell crosses over the line with "Peeping Tom""Peeping Tom" is a film whose place in cinematic history cannot help but outweigh the critical value of the film itself. When it was released in Great Britain in 1960 it was universally condemned by the critics and pulled from released the first week, effectively ending the career of director Michael Powell ("I Know Where I'm Going," "Black Narcissus," "The Red Shoes"). "Peeping Tom" is about a young man who not only murders women, but who films them as he kills them. What upset the critics was ... Read More
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- A complex masterpiecePeeping Tom is definately NOT ahead of it's time because (in my opinion)at the moment the world is being exposed to so much sex in relations to the media e.g. music videos,film and Television I think the BBFC should reconsider it's censorship-giving this film an 18 certificate is just RIDICULOUS,we have all seen things much worse than this film & Television wise.
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- Open up your peepers for peeping Tom!I enjoyed the modesty of this film, and the complexity of the portrayal of the human mind. The film debated what drives someone to go to the cinema to watch murder, sex and violence? A very brave film for its time, it threw back questions that the audience weren't ready to be answered. Definately a head of its time, caused much contraversy (according to my film lecturer)! A must see if you prefer a film, which will make you think, rather than bombard you with gore!
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- A creepy look into an insane mind.I will be honest now. I am a gorehound, and I love films with a notorious background. Don't know what that says about my mental state, but who cares. That's my taste, and it wont change.
I came to watch PEEPING TOM for the very reasons stated above. It had a notorious background and the subject matter seemed to suggest a gore-filled film. I found out however that this was not the case. There is no gore whatsoever, and on first viewing the film (to me) seemed very tame by today's standards. ... Read More
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