Title:  Peeping Tom

Director:  Michael Powell

Starring:  Karl Bohm

IMDB:  http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0054167/

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The film that virtually ruined the otherwise distinguished career of British director Michael Powell.

Having earned a solid reputation from classics such as The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp and The Red Shoes, Powell made Peeping Tom in 1960.  The negative fallout practically blacklisted him from filmmaking.

It's a sleazy psychological study of a disturbed serial killer who films women and then murders them (with a knife concealed at the end of one of the camera tripod legs).

He has serious issues with his parents--especially his father--which draws comparisons with Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho, which came out a few months after this film.

Over the years, the value of the film has been reevaluated, and is now considered a serious work, worthy of respect and attention.  I've seen it a few times over the years and find it rather stodgy and staid, but I can see how it would have raised roofs 50 or so years ago.

Unlike Psycho, Peeping Tom is in color.

Smeggy