The Observer’s CA (Caroline Alice) Lejeune ostentatiously walked out and declared herself “sickened”, a reaction echoed by the rest of the reviewers in comments such as “beastly” (Financial Times), “corrupt and empty” (London Evening Standard) and “perverted nonsense” (Daily Worker). Guess the world was not ready.

Rating - … There's a great doc on the Peeping Tom criterion release. Are you sure you want to delete this comment?

Way ahead of its time but also "tame" by modern standards. Psycho: Archive review. “The trailer and the tight security over admissions inflamed word of mouth. If you are using a VPN, and other users of the same VPN are abusing the service, then you'll be automatically banned as well. On Back Row, John Huntley will be comparing the two films and investigating why they were treated so differently ("Peeping Tom" is showing on Channel Four on Saturday night.)

The most insightful comments on all subjects will be published daily in dedicated articles. His films were expensive – extravagant, Technicolor… he spent a fortune on sets and costumes... the British film industry could not support this kind of filmmaking. Is American Psycho 2 the worst sequel of all time? I always thought he just talked in an effected voice. You (or someone with the same IP address as you) might be using a script or program to download pages from this site automatically. I had no idea that movie ruined him? Both shocked audiences and are now considered classics but only one, 'Peeping Tom', killed the career of its director. Want to bookmark your favourite articles and stories to read or reference later? Both are now considered classics. On the surface, the film is about the Freudian relationships between the protagonist and, respectively, his father, and his victims. Hitchcock could market the film in his own way, which was that of a natural showman. Watched Peeping Tom last week and while I definitely prefer Hitchcock's Psycho, it's definitely a great movie as well.

An edict was duly sent out that nobody could enter the theatre after the film had started (audiences came and went as they pleased at the time), cardboard cut-outs of Hitchcock wagging his finger appearing in theatre lobbies. The film featured an iconic score by Bernard Herrmann, that has been frequently imitated in slasher and horror films. Are you sure you want to mark this comment as inappropriate? So why did ‘The Red Shoes’ director Michael Powell’s reputation never recover, asks Gerard Gilbert, Find your bookmarks in your Independent Premium section, under my profile. But in 1960, it was two fictional portraits of voyeuristic serial killers that coincided at the cinema three months apart in the UK but in this case a very clear victor emerged. And while Leigh was nominated for an Oscar for her role as sacrificial victim Marion Crane, Shearer’s movie career juddered to a halt. Why, then, are Michael Powell’s scenes somehow more distasteful? Want an ad-free experience?Subscribe to Independent Premium. Powell retained the killer’s point of view – therefore making the cinemagoers’ complicity much more explicit.

And people who saw the film early were shattered by it.”. but loved by audiences. producer-director Michael Powell (struggling somewhat after breaking up with his film-making partner Emeric Pressburger). We'll also be looking at the difficulty of depicting an artist's 'Eureka!

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