Review of Peeping Tom (1960) by Aren B — 15 Jan 2009
The affecting part about "Peeping Tom" is that it is the rare serial killer film where we sympathize with the killer. In films like "Psycho" and "Se7en", the serial killer is fascinating and psychotic, but hardly appealing.
We don't feel bad for the killer, nor do we attempt to empathize with him. Even with Hannibal Lector in "The Silence of the Lambs", we're charmed and drawn in by him but we don't sympathize with him.
The film that "Peeping Tom" most resembles is Fritz Lang's 1931 masterpiece, "M". Both films allow us into the mind of the antihero killer, to be able to see what torments them and drives their heinous crimes.
These films don't attempt to excuse the behaviours of its characters, but merely to remind the viewer of the killer's humanity, something too often forgotten in the flood of contemporary horror films.
This review of Peeping Tom (1960) was written by Aren B on 15 Jan 2009.
Peeping Tom has generally received very positive reviews.
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