Peeping Tom is a masterpiece of horror and one of my favourite genre films. I can see why some critics hated it as it does make you occasionally empathise with a psychopathic killer and realise that filmmaking is an obsession that could become dangerous, but it is a brilliant piece of direction and Leo Marks' screenplay is extremely intelligent.
The performances by Karl Boehm, Anna Massey and Moira Shearer are all superb and it should be considered, as directors including Martin Scorsese believe it to be, one of the finest horror films ever made.
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