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Do we make you horny, baby? Yeah? We’re heading to swinging London in 1960, and getting our groove on with…uh…murderous voyeurism and implied sexual perversion. Not exactly the 60’s London that birthed Austin Powers, and very much the 60’s London of Michael Powell’s overlooked horror/suspense classic, Peeping Tom!
From Wikipedia:
Peeping Tom is a 1960 British psychological horror-thriller film directed by Michael Powell, written by Leo Marks, and starring Carl Boehm, Anna Massey, and Moira Shearer. The film revolves around a serial killer who murders women while using a portable film camera to record their dying expressions of terror. Its title derives from the expression “peeping Tom”, which describes a voyeur.
The film’s controversial subject matter and its extremely harsh reception by critics had a severely negative impact on Powell’s career as a director in the United Kingdom. However, it attracted a cult following, and in later years, it has been re-evaluated and is now widely considered a masterpiece, and a progenitor of the contemporary slasher film. The British Film Institute named it the 78th greatest British film of all time, and in 2017 a poll of 150 actors, directors, writers, producers and critics for Time Out magazine saw it ranked the 27th best British film ever.
Join Clay and Amanda as they develop the roll of “educational books,” a blind mother who can still see all the red flags, really good coats, Clay’s favorite device the “cop plot,” and top 3, hall of fame-level questionable parenting!
So hide your camera in your coat, be a real weirdo with your attractive neighbor, hide a body in a big trunk in the back of a movie set, and roll the footage with us…if you dare!