FilmNRPsychological Slasher

Peeping Tom1960

Name: Peeping Tom
Genre: Psychological, Slasher
Released: 1960-04-07
Rating: 7.9

“What made this the most diabolical murder weapon ever used?”

Directed by Michael Powell

7.9

Crypt Score

Blended from 3 sources

IMDb 7.6Rotten Tomatoes 96%TMDB 7.5

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#5·Top Slasher Films #13·Top Classic Horror Movies (Pre-1970)#20·Top Psychological Films #31·Top Horror Movies of All Time

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Year

1960

Runtime

101 min

Box Office

Budget

$150,000

Revenue (worldwide)

$83,957

Domestic

$36,598

🏆 1 win total

The premise

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.

Horror Vault's take

A soft-spoken young man living a double life in 1960s London channels a deeply scarred psyche into an obsession with capturing raw human terror on camera. By day he blends into the mundane world of a film studio; by night his lens turns predatory. When a warm, curious neighbour begins to draw him out of his isolation, the tension between connection and compulsion becomes unbearable to watch. This landmark British thriller forces audiences to confront their own role as voyeurs — implicating the act of watching itself.

Content: Violence Against Women, Sexual Exploitation Themes, Depictions Of Illegal Prostitution, Psychological Distress, Scenes Of Murder Depicted Through A Voyeuristic Lens