Review of Peeping Tom (1960) by Mark Karl H — 03 Nov 2009

Considered very shocking in it'sdy it has gathered fans over the years including Martin Scorsese who have helped bring this film back to prominence. Karl Bohm is a strange creepy documentary film director who takes smutty pictures on the side in order to survive.

He has vivid flashbacks to the games his father a psychologist used to film of him as a child...Lying in bed and being awoken by a lizard being thrown on the covers for instance. He begins murdering young women with a spike concealed in the tripod of his camera and they actually witness their own last moments as he films them in a concave metal mirror which reflects light back onto their faces.

A gripping thriller with Bohm fantastically frigid as Mark with Anna Massey as the young girl who he attempts to form a bond with.