Peeping Tom

Warped but brilliant tribute to filmmaking that almost ended Powell’s career.

  • Director

    Michael Powell

  • With

    Karlheinz Boehm, Anna Massey, Moira Shearer

  • UK 1960. 101min

  • Digital 4K

  • Certificate

    15

  • A new BFI National Archive restoration

Was it Peeping Tom’s insistence on the morbidity of watching as well as making films that so repelled British critics? Some at least later recognised its genius (Pressburger, sadly, never did). In this profoundly uncomfortable study of a murderous ‘scopophiliac’, Soho’s seedy underbelly and the eroticism of fear, Powell out-Hitchcocks Hitchcock – not least with the filmmaker’s own sinister cameo.

Mark Duguid

Restored by The Film Foundation and BFI National Archive in association with StudioCanal. Funding provided by The Film Foundation. Special thanks to Martin Scorsese and Thelma Schoonmaker for their consultation.

Audio description available at all screenings.

The screenings on Thursday 21 December and Friday 29 December will be presented with subtitles including descriptions of non-dialogue audio.

See Peeping Tom + Doesn’t Exist magazine launch + panel discussion hosted by Victor Fraga.

The screening on Thursday 7 December will be introduced.

Also available on BFI Player