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Peeping Tom
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Peeping Tom is a 1960 British film directed and produced by Michael Powell, from a screenplay by Leo Marks. Set and filmed in London, including at Pinewood Studios, it stars Karlheinz Böhm, Anna Massey, Moira Shearer, and Maxine Audley, with cinematography by Otto Heller, a score by Brian Easdale, and production design by Arthur Lawson. It is classified as a slasher, horror, thriller, and crime film, with subject matter including a serial killer and dying.
Produced through Michael Powell's own company and distributed by Netflix, the film runs 101 minutes. Its budget has been listed as both 125,000 and 150,000, and it earned 83,957 at the box office.
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It is catalogued under topics including 1960 British films, 1960 English-language films and 1960 films.
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7.5Loner Mark Lewis works at a film studio during the day and, at night, takes racy photographs of women. Also he's making a documentary on fear, which involves recording the reactions of victims as he murders them. He befriends Helen, the daughter of the family living in the apartment below his, and he tells her vaguely about the movie he is making.
Cast
- Karlheinz Böhm as Mark Lewis
- Moira Shearer as Vivian
- Anna Massey as Helen Stephens
- Maxine Audley as Mrs. Stephens
- Brenda Bruce as Dora
- Miles Malleson as Elderly Gentleman Customer
Themes
- london, england
- primal fear
- photography
- obsession
- childhood trauma
- serial killer
- landlord
- boarding house
- psychological thriller
- filmmaking
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Key facts
- 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
- 7 April 1960 ( 1960-04-07 )
- Running time
- 101 minutes
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Language
- English
- Budget
- £133,394
- Box office
- $149,495
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- film
- Genre
- crime film
- Country of origin
- United Kingdom
- Original language
- English language
- Main subject
- dying
- Director
- Michael Powell
- Screenwriter
- Leo Marks
- Cast member
- Martin Miller
- Composer
- Brian Easdale
- Cinematographer
- Otto Heller
- Narrative location
- London
- Filming location
- Pinewood Studios
- Duration
- 101
- FilmAffinity ID
- 932140
- Distribution format
- video on demand
- Image
- Carl.boehm.jpg
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- publication date
- 1961-06-30
- title
- Peeping Tom
- production designer
- Arthur Lawson
- distributed by
- Netflix
- Commons category
- Peeping Tom (film)
- assessment
- Bechdel test
- review score
- 96%
- capital cost
- 125000
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Encyclopedic overview
Peeping Tom is a 1960 British psychological horror-thriller film directed by Michael Powell, written by Leo Marks, and starring Carl Boehm, Moira Shearer, Anna Massey and Maxine Audley. 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. However, it attracted a cult following, and in later years, it has been re-evaluated and is now widely considered a masterpiece, and a progenitor of the contemporary slasher film. The British Film Institute named it the 78th-greatest British film of all time, 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.
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