Peeping Tom

An influential cinematic masterpiece written by Leo Marks (Twisted Nerve) and starring Carl Boehm (Sissi), Anna Massey (Frenzy), Moira Shearer (The Red Shoes) and Maxine Audley (A King in New York). Now regarded as a ground-breaking masterpiece of the British horror movement, on its initial release in 1960, PEEPING TOM received a savage reception from critics who were dismayed by its controversial subject matter and the sympathy it seems to engender for its murderous protagonist. The second film from visionary director Michael Powell, following his run of 1940s and 50s classics collaborating with screenwriter Emeric Pressburger, PEEPING TOM left Powell's career in tatters and the film was made unavailable for many years. PEEPING TOM has since become recognized as a watershed in genre cinema, its themes of voyeurism and psychopathy proving hugely influential on the evolution of the slasher movie. Mark (Carl Boehm), a focus puller at the local film studio, supplements his wages by taking glamour photographs in a seedy studio above a newsagent. By night he is a sadistic killer, stalking his victims with his camera forever in his hand trying to capture the look of genuine, unadulterated fear - an obsession that stems from his disturbing and terrifying childhood at the hands of his scientist father. Mark slowly becomes enamoured with Helen (Anna Massey), who lives with her blind mother (Maxine Audley) in the flat downstairs, but how long before he turns the deadly gaze of his camera towards her?

Special Features

Bonus Footage, Commentary: Professor Ian Christie, Documentaries: 'Visions of Voyeurism: Peeping Tom by Sir Christopher Frayling'; 'Take Me To Your Cinema: The Legacy of 'Peeping Tom''; 'Restoring 'Peeping Tom''; 'The Eye of the Beholder', Image Gallery, Interviews: Thelma Schoonmaker, Introduction by Martin Scorsese, Trailers

Actors: Brenda Bruce, Michael Goodliffe, Martin Miller, Carl Boehm, Bartlett Mullins, Shirley Anne Field, Esmond Knight, Anna Massey, Maxine Audley, Moira Shearer

Audio Languages: English

Duration: 101 minutes

Number of Discs: 2

Subtitle Languages: English

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