while peeping tom can linger to much on some of its scenes, its an excellent horror film.
Karlheinz Böhm gives a creepily and freightening good performance that makes him slightly sympathethic despite his actions.
it also helps that the colors POP like a horror comic, the cinematography is obviously beautifull but everything feels so colorfull but the lighting makes those colors sometimes seem normal and sometimes creepy.
Peeping Tom
What made this the most diabolical murder weapon ever used?
Rating
4.5 (1)
Release Date
5/16/1960Runtime
101 minsOverview
Loner 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.
Status
ReleasedOriginal Language
EnglishBudget
$150,000Revenue
$83,957Homepage
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A methodical descent into the mind of a serial killer obsessed with capturing fear itself; deeply uncomfortable and unnervingly intimate, executed with formal precision that makes the psychology feel terrifyingly real.
Mood
Dread-soakedUnsettlingClaustrophobicParanoid
Themes
ObsessionIdentityArt and creationIsolation
Tone
Bleak
Pacing
Slow-burn
Look
FormalistHigh-contrastBlack and white
Structure
Linear
Heads up
Graphic violenceSexual contentChild endangerment
Karlheinz Böhm
Mark Lewis
Anna Massey
Helen Stephens
Moira Shearer
Vivian
Maxine Audley
Mrs. Stephens
Brenda Bruce
Dora
Miles Malleson
Elderly Gentleman Customer
Esmond Knight
Arthur Baden
Michael Goodliffe
Don Jarvis
Jack Watson
Chief Insp. Gregg
Shirley Anne Field
Pauline Shields
Pamela Green
Milly
John Barrard
Small Man (uncredited)
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