Peeping Tom (1960 film)
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Peeping Tom is a 1960 British psychological horror-thriller film[4] directed by Michael Powell, written by Leo Marks, and starring Carl Boehm, Anna Massey, and Moira Shearer. 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.
Peeping Tom | |
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Directed by | Michael Powell |
Written by | Leo Marks |
Produced by | Michael Powell |
Starring | Carl Boehm Moira Shearer Anna Massey Maxine Audley |
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] |
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.[5] However, it attracted a cult following, and in later years, it has been re-evaluated and is now widely considered a masterpiece,[6][7] and a progenitor of the contemporary slasher film.[5] The British Film Institute named it the 78th greatest British film of all time,[8] 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.[9]
The music score was written by Brian Easdale and performed by Australian pianist Gordon Watson.