A piercing restoration of Michael Powell’s iconic serial killer classic. A young man murders women, using a movie camera to film their dying expressions of terror. His neighbour, Helen, becomes curious about his documentaries and watches one of them secretly.
Critics Reviews:
- “Here voyeurism itself looks outwards and inwards, confounding perpetrator and victim, filmmaker and viewer, camera and phallic weapon, while observing a pathology as metacinematic as it is psychiatric.” – Anton Bitel (Little White Lies)
- “Fear, as it turns out, is the most frightening thing in the world, and Peeping Tom makes us feel it palpably as few films have been able to do.” – Kenneth Turan (Los Angeles Times)
- “Peeping Tom reminds us of the scary, primitive power of movies by putting us, as viewers, in the position of its peeping protagonist. As the psychopath sets up his victims for the kill, we see them through his eyes.” – Jay Boyar (Orlando Sentinel)
- “It still packs a wallop. Maybe that's because, in cinema, we're all peeping toms. And the camera, in skillful hands, can be an exquisite instrument of terror.” – Michael Wilmington (Chicago Tribune)
