Review of Peeping Tom (1960) by Adrian B — 14 Nov 2010

Released the same year as the ground-breaking Hitchcock masterpiece "Psycho," Michael Powell's "Peeping Tom" is one of the most sick, disturbed films to emerge from the 20th Century.

Directed by the same man who directed the lavish greats including "Black Narcissus" and "The Red Shoes," Powell comes with a gut-wrenching, skin-crawling, blood boiling great that is bound to make versions scared out of their wits.

It is a film of shocking brilliance, though it was not a hit in its year of release (1960). The film follows the life a cameraman who kills relatively attractive females while filming them. He is a disturbed man from a disturbed childhood, raised abusively by his father.

For a film like this to begin a decade of incredible cinema, this is definately one of the major ones, and work of greatness.