Peeping Tom (1960)

Essential Viewing

UK

Feature Film
Director: Michael Powell
Writer: Leo Marks
Cinematographer: Otto Heller
Composer: Brian Easdale
Cast: Karlheinz Böhm, Moira Shearer, Anna Massey, Maxine Audley, Jack Watson, Pamela Green

This thematically finely textured masterpiece from Powell, chronicling an amateur film-maker/serial killer’s attempts to catch the face of death on film by filming his victims as he kills them, is an innovative, excellently acted, visually arresting, and aurally distinctive film, with much to say about the relationship between film-makers, films, and their viewers. Iain.Stott