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Peeping Tom 1960 123movies

Peeping Tom 1960 123movies

What made this the most diabolical murder weapon ever used?May. 16, 1960101 Min.
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Watch: Peeping Tom 1960 123movies, Full Movie Online – Mark Lewis, works as a focus puller in a British film studio. On his off hours, he supplies a local porno shop with cheesecake photos and also dabbles in filmmaking. A lonely, unfriendly, sexually repressed fellow, Mark is obsessed with the effects of fear and how they are registered on the face and behavior of the frightened. This obsession dates from the time when, as a child, he served as the subject of some cold-blooded experiments in terror conducted by his own scientist father. As a grown man, Mark becomes a compulsive murderer who kills women and records their contorted features and dying gasps on film. His ongoing project is a documentary on fear. With 16mm camera in hand, he accompanies a prostitute to her room and stabs her with a blade concealed in his tripod, all the while photographing her contorted face in the throes of terror and death. Alone in his room, he surrounds himself with the sights and sounds of terror: taped screams, black-and-white “home movies” of convulsed faces. At his house, he meets Helen Stephens, a young woman who lives with her blind mother in a downstairs flat. She visits his flat, where he shows her black-and-white films that were taken of him when he was a child. She is horrified to see that his father used him as a guinea pig in various experiments, taking movies of his reactions of fear..
Plot: Loner Mark Lewis works at a film studio during the day and, at night, takes racy photographs of women. Also he’s making a documentary on fear, which involves recording the reactions of victims as he murders them. He befriends Helen, the daughter of the family living in the apartment below his, and he tells her vaguely about the movie he is making.
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7.6/10 Votes: 36,061
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N/A Votes: 622 Popularity: 15.2 | TMDB

Reviews:


I can recall being genuinely scared when I first saw this film in the early 1970s. Young women are being found murdered. What makes their crimes especially heinous is the look of sheer terror found on their faces – and that is what is further perplexing the pursing Scotland Yard detective “Gregg” (Jack Watson). Meantime, actress “Vivian” (Moira Shearer) is filming her new movie and on the set is the camera-obsessed “Mark” (Karlheinz Böhm) who rents out the bottom part of his sprawling house to a group of youngsters. Usually keeping himself to himself, he is befriended by “Helen” (Anna Massey) and soon a relationship, of sorts, develops as she takes an interest in both him and his films. When tragedy occurs at the studio, the police investigation initially includes the sound stage crew, and gradually the plot unfolds in a dark and menacing fashion. Böhm and Massey are great here and under Michael Powell and Otto Heller’s creative direction and photography, deliver us an intimate and well paced story that takes it’s time, but does so in a cumulatively effective fashion. The dialogue is disarmingly potent too – there is something almost childlike about “Mark” and almost maternal about “Massey”, illustrative of the underlying psychology of the story. On a dark night with the rain battering against the window, this is about as good as cinema gets.
Review By: CinemaSerf

Fear and the Nervous System.

Peeping Tom is directed by Michael Powell and written by Leo Marks. It stars Carl Boehm, Moira Shearer, Anna Massey, Maxine Audley and Brenda Bruce. Music is by Brian Easdale and cinematography by Otto Heller.

A famous (infamous) film for a number of reasons, not least that the fall out from its release effectively finished the career of the great Michael Powell. Interestingly now, still some 50 plus years later, there are still people discovering the film for the first time and not being sure what they have just watched; much like many critics back in 1960 as it happens! While horror seekers quite often come away disappointed that they haven’t seen a Jack the Ripper bloodshed movie. Apparently they see the words serial killer and expect gore and terror on tap.

As fans of the film will attest, Peeping Tom isn’t that sort of serial killer film, it’s a fascinating piece of work. A cunningly crafted observation of a darkened mind, of voyeurism, loneliness and child abuse. From the opening strains of Easdale’s skin itching piano the mood is set, then the brilliantly lurid colour scheme comes into play as troubled Mark Lewis (Boehm) hones in on a victim, a lady of the night about to be filmed in the throes of death. It’s the start of Powell and Marks’ ploy to make us complicit in Lewis’ actions, and then the makers challenge us to sympathise with him as his back story is revealed and also as he struggles with his affections for Helen Stephens (Massey) in the present day.

There is also a sly aside to the movie industry running through the picture, something which no doubt irked critics and film distributors back in 1960. There could maybe be an argument that the trauma and psychological thematics at work that underpin the plot are a little dated now? But what is still relevant is the film making – voyeurism angle as we today are constantly fed reality TV for entertainment purpose. The production is across the board grade “A”, the performances highly effective, with the unfairly maligned Boehm perfect as Lewis, the actor even providing shadings of Peter Lorre at times. Heller’s bold colour photography is disgustingly atmospheric, Easdale’s music a stalking menace and the sound department really come up trumps. Perfect.

Then of course there is Powell himself, deeply hurt by the savaging he received when Tom was released, it’s nice to note that before he passed away in 1990 he would see the film become a highly regarded piece of film making. It and he deserves praise, his direction is conceptually daring, his framing of Lewis methodical, and of course his camera is our eyes and ears, uncomfortably so. A remarkable and genius film. 10/10

Review By: John Chard
Macabre voyeurism
Michael Powell, the distinguished English director, probably contributed to his own demise from the film industry with “Peeping Tom”, a movie that proved to be well ahead of its times and a masterpiece by this man who gave so much to enhance the industry in Great Britain. In fact, it’s a shame this was almost the last film he directed before going on to a kind of exile in Australia.

“Peeping Tom” is an exercise in voyeurism Mr. Powell, and his screen writer, Leo Marks, created to prove to what extent how one is capable of watching things one shouldn’t watch. At the same time, Mr. Powell created a psychological essay about what makes Mark Lewis, the central character of the film, act the way he acted. Mark has been scarred for life thanks to what his own father did to him during a period of his growing years that formed his character into the reclusive man who feels at home doing the despicable crimes he commits.

One of the strengths of the film is the amazing portrayal of Mark Lewis by the German actor, Carl Boehm, who made a superb contribution to the movie. Mr. Boehm is perfect because by just looking at him, one would never guess what’s inside his soul, or what motivates him to kill and record his crimes.

Mr. Powell brought together an amazing cast that shines in the film. Moira Shearer, Anna Massey, Maxime Audley, Brenda Bruce, Bartlett Mullins, are among the most prominent players one sees in the film.

The newly restored copy we saw as part of the retrospective shown at the Walter Reade this year has been enhanced in ways one didn’t think would be possible and it’s a tribute to the great director, who should have been proud of how today’s audiences are reacting when they discover his movies that seem will live forever.

It’s ironic that Mr. Powell didn’t get the recognition he deserved during his lifetime.

Review By: jotix100
Really not that interesting
I was geared up to watch this film after reading about it in “Cult Movies” which has inspired me to watch many films. However, I have to say that this film just wasn’t that interesting. I found myself becoming very tired of it quickly.

The film has not aged well in my opinion. Perhaps when this was first released it might have interested people but it seems so dated. The dialogue especially. I don’t remember people ever talking or acting this way. If a film doesn’t seem believable it just doesn’t work for me and this is the problem I have with Peeping Tom.

Women today would fight this guy back. They wouldn’t just lay back on the couch or bed and let this guy kill them. Especially the women here in Los Angeles. I realize that isn’t what the film is about-it’s about perception but if the film doesn’t seem realistic it doesn’t work for me.

Some people will want to see this because it is a cult film but if you are looking for something engaging or interesting, I think you will be disappointed.

Review By: sunznc

Other Information:

Original Title Peeping Tom
Release Date 1960-05-16
Release Year 1960

Original Language en
Runtime 1 hr 41 min (101 min), 1 hr 26 min (86 min) (cut) (USA)
Budget 150000
Revenue 83957
Status Released
Rated Not Rated
Genre Drama, Horror, Thriller
Director Michael Powell
Writer Leo Marks
Actors Karlheinz Böhm, Anna Massey, Moira Shearer
Country United Kingdom
Awards N/A
Production Company N/A
Website N/A


Technical Information:

Sound Mix Mono (Westrex Recording System)
Aspect Ratio 1.66 : 1 (original & negative ratio / European theatrical ratio), 1.75 : 1 (intended ratio)
Camera N/A
Laboratory N/A
Film Length N/A
Negative Format 35 mm
Cinematographic Process Spherical
Printed Film Format 35 mm

Peeping Tom 1960 123movies
Peeping Tom 1960 123movies
Peeping Tom 1960 123movies
Peeping Tom 1960 123movies
Peeping Tom 1960 123movies
Peeping Tom 1960 123movies
Peeping Tom 1960 123movies
Peeping Tom 1960 123movies
Peeping Tom 1960 123movies
Peeping Tom 1960 123movies
Original title Peeping Tom
TMDb Rating 7.469 622 votes

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