Nightmare Alley: PEEPING TOM (1960) – New Restoration!

65th Anniversary Screening! New Restoration! 

WHAT MADE THIS THE MOST DIABOLIC MURDER WEAPON EVER USED?

The bodies pile up as sensitive film studio focus puller Mark Lewis (Carl Boehm) moonlights as a private photographer of scantily-clad women, while obsessively working on his own “documentary” of the women’s dying expressions.

“The movies make us into voyeurs. We sit in the dark, watching other people’s lives. It is the bargain the cinema strikes with us, although most films are too well-behaved to mention it.” – Roger Ebert

Celebrated writer/director Michael Powell (along with his collaborator Emeric Pressburger) produced a number of classic and successful British films in the 1940s and ’50s, such as THE RED SHOES, BLACK NARCISSUS, and A MATTER OF LIFE AND DEATH. This solo effort in 1960, which one might consider a progenitor of the contemporary slasher film, all but ended his career in the UK. It is now widely considered to be a masterpiece.

Strikingly shot in saturated and garish Technicolor, Powell implicates us all in the voyeurism of the camera and its haunted and lonely, but monstrous killer. Don’t miss this brand-new restoration, courtesy of The Film Foundation and BFI National Archive in association with Studiocanal, with special thanks to Martin Scorsese and Thelma Schoonmaker for their consultation. (STEVEN LANDRY)

Part of the Nightmare Alley series!

Cast/Crew Info
Director: Michael Powell | Cast: Karlheinz Böhm, Anna Massey, Moira Shearer, Maxine Audley, Brenda Bruce