Peeping Tom

Peeping Tom follows Mark Lewis, a shy focus puller by day and obsessive filmmaker by night, who murders women while recording their terrified faces on camera. Directed by Michael Powell, the film was radically ahead of its time, exploring voyeurism, trauma, and the complicity of the audience in the act of watching. Though initially reviled and career-destroying for Powell, it is now recognized as a landmark psychological horror masterpiece alongside Hitchcock's Psycho.

• Director Michael Powell cast himself as the killer's abusive father.
• The film effectively ended Michael Powell's British directing career.
• Considered too disturbing, critics called it 'disgusting' upon release.
• Carl Boehm was Austrian, chosen for his unsettling, boyish charm.
• Martin Scorsese has publicly championed the film's cinematic importance.

• Do you know what the most frightening thing in the world is? It's fear.
• All this filming isn't healthy.
• Whatever I photograph, I always lose.
• I'm trying to make a film that shows... the face of fear.
• He made me watch. He always made me watch.