Peeping Tom

Michael Powell’s elegant and disturbing Peeping Tom turns its camera eye on an unhealthy obsession with all things cinematic.

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.

The film remains dangerous and brilliant...

An integral film for the development of the horror genre.

Michael Powell's Peeping Tom is the best movie ever made about the voyeuristic allure of making and watching movies.

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.

...an astonishing film that doesn’t lose its power upon repeated viewings.

'Peeping Tom' is an interesting predecessor for many subgenres we know and love. There are moments when the camera work is stunning and the film has so much to unpack that it's worth a few rewatches.

Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger together created films of unusual conceptual ambition and high style for UK cinema...

There have been many movies suggesting that filmgoers are by nature voyeurs -- Hitchcock himself made a masterpiece in this vein with Rear Window -- but few have been as damning as Peeping Tom.