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Peeping Tom - Criterion Collection dvd movie. Home » DVD Movies » Actors/Actresses » B » Other » Brenda Bruce Other • Bert Remsen Other • Bart Burns Other • Benedick Blythe Other • Bette Henritze Other • Billy Chow Other • Blake Lindsley Other • Ben Wang Other • Ben Slack Other • Barry Primus Other • Bernard Miles Other • Bill Louie Other • Blaise Corrigan Peeping Tom - Criterion Collection buy bestselling dvd movies, videos find reviews, ratings, prices List Price: $39.95 Our Price: $35.99 You Save: $3.96 Features • Anamorphic • Closed-captioned • Color • DVD-Video • Special Edition • Widescreen • NTSC In Theaters : 15 May, 1962 DVD Release : 16 November, 1999 [ + Zoom ]   [ Buy Now ] DVD : Usually ships in 24 hours Peeping Tom - Criterion Collection description Michael Powell lays bare the cinema's dark voyeuristic underside in this disturbing 1960 psychodrama thriller. Handsome young Carl Boehm is Mark Lewis, a shy, socially clumsy young man shaped by the psychic scars of an emotionally abusive parent, in this case a psychologist father (Michael Powell in a perverse cameo) who subjected his son to nightmarish experiments in fear and recorded every interaction with a movie camera. Now Mark continues his father's work, sadistically killing young women with a phallic-like blade attached to his movie camera and filming their final, terrified moments for his definitive documentary on fear. Set in contemporary London, which Powell evokes in a lush, colorful seediness, this film presents Mark as much victim as villain and implicates the audience in his scopophilic activities as we become the spectators to his snuff film screenings. Comparisons to Hitchcock's Psycho, released the same year, are inevitable. Powell's film was reviled upon release, and it practically destroyed his career, ironic in light of the acclaim and success that greeted Psycho, but Powell's picture hit a little too close to home with its urban setting, full color photography, documentary techniques, and especially its uneasy connections between sex, violence, and the cinema. We can thank Martin Scorsese for sponsoring its 1979 rerelease, which presented the complete, uncut version to appreciative American audiences for the first time. This powerfully perverse film was years ahead of its time and remains one of the most disturbing and psychologically complex horror films ever made. --Sean Axmaker Peeping Tom - Criterion Collection Customer Reviews   1     2     3   ♥♥♥♥♥ It put me to sleep This movie is about a guy who carries a camera with him everywhere he goes. He starts to kill people with the end of his camera, the camera has a little knife attached to it. He also has some unresolved childhood issues. I tried watching this 3 times and everytime I tried I fell asleep within the first 25 min. Finally forced myself to watch the whole thing and it was hard to make it through. The characters are like walking zombies. The classical music playing during the 'murder' scenes is annoying and not scary. In fact theres almost continuous classical/piano music playing throughout the whole movie. Very boring actors, uninteresting characters, I was barely able to finish watching this. If youre interested in watching a guy take a camera in and out of his bag 20 times along with boring English dialogue and very lackluster suspense... watch it.. if not, dont even bother.   1     2     3   Non User