Peeping Tom (with Duncan Skiles) | Podcast episode 161 | Movie Oubliette
Movie OublietteOctober 22, 202401:12:34

Peeping Tom (with Duncan Skiles) | Podcast episode 161 | Movie Oubliette

Happy Halloween! Duncan Skiles (https://www.duncanskiles.org/) , director of the chilling The Clovehitch Killer and the forthcoming comedy thriller Neighborhood Watch, went trick or treating into the oubliette and brought back a Peeping Tom. This proto-slasher from Michael Powell, one half of the famous British duo Powell and Pressburger, emerged in the same year as Hitchcock's Psycho and explores similar territory: a handsome, unassuming man with a homicidal compulsion spurred by parental abuse.


But while one film was an instant box office sensation that became a landmark in horror history, the other was savaged by scandalised critics and destroyed its director's career. Rescued from obscurity over a decade later by Martin Scorsese, Peeping Tom has become an influential cult favourite. But does it deserve to escape the oubliette with a fulsome sack of calorific treats? Or should it be thrown back with some candy corn and a rotten apple? Find out!


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