{"id":4493,"date":"2023-10-15T07:54:00","date_gmt":"2023-10-15T07:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rockvideorental.com\/?p=4493"},"modified":"2023-10-12T19:59:37","modified_gmt":"2023-10-12T19:59:37","slug":"oct-15th-peeping-tom-1960","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rockvideorental.com\/?p=4493","title":{"rendered":"Oct. 15th: Peeping Tom (1960)"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Peeping Tom (1960)<\/div>
Directed by Michael Powell<\/div>
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I love slasher movies, everyone knows that and I have covered NUMEROUS on this blog, my podcast and the youtube channel.\u00a0 What is the first slasher?\u00a0 It is much debated.\u00a0 Many say Halloween is, but hey Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Black Christmas predate it, also Psycho predates those and Peeping Tom predates Psycho.\u00a0 So man I have to give this a shot, for having such an inspiration on the great movies that I love, that followed.<\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t
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Peeping Tom is about a young guy that murders women, using a movie camera to film their dying expressions of terror. That plot has to be one of the most sadistic sounding things I\u2019ve ever heard. A guy films himself murdering women because he wants to see the look on their face when he drains them of life. YIKES! This was 1960! My lord. This is a British movie, which is hilarious because of how they would freak out over slashers in the 80s with the development of the Video Nasties list.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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If you are looking for a gore fest, you aren\u2019t going to find it. Peeping Tom relies heavily on suspense and character development. That may turn most slasher fans off, because it is a relatively slow burn. If you think Halloween is boring and slow, first off you\u2019re wrong, it is a masterpiece. Second, you are still wrong and I hate you. Third, Peeping Tom isn\u2019t for you, walk off and watch Scream 76 or something, but avoid Scream 1981 because that movie sucks ass. The acting is pretty solid in this, Karlheinz Bohm plays Mark and he\u2019s a likeable guy with a dark side. You see him progress as a character and get more and more depraved. The killing scenes, while tame by today\u2019s standards, are rather effective and unsettling.<\/p>

If you aren\u2019t into slow burns, then you should steer clear of this. I found myself checking out a few times and had to pause, and come back to this. My attention span isn\u2019t the greatest and only seems to be less as the years go by. I appreciate this movie for what it did and the balls it had to do what it did in 1960. I think Psycho is the better film, but Peeping Tom should get more attention than it does. I gave this a solid B+, technically good movie but lacking that certain charm that Psycho had.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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