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Peeping Tom (1960)

Directed by Michael Powell · Cinematography by Otto Heller

101 min62 frames

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Peeping Tom (1960) movie still: medium — A furnished parlor with bookshelves, a stone fireplace, and checkered tablecloths on a table. A red-haired…Peeping Tom (1960) movie still: fullbody — A well-furnished room featuring patterned furniture and warm lamp light near a window. A man in a heavy…Peeping Tom (1960) movie still: medium — A dark industrial studio space features a large metal crane in the background. A woman with red curls turns…Peeping Tom (1960) movie still: wide — A dark, cavernous industrial space features large heavy machinery and posters on a wall. A lone woman stands…Peeping Tom (1960) movie still: closeup — A vintage mechanical film projector sits on a table with two film reels attached. One reel is in motion…Peeping Tom (1960) movie still: medium — A dimly lit room with dark wooden furniture and an illuminated warm light source. A woman with red hair…Peeping Tom (1960) movie still: medium — A dark projection room contains a film projector in the foreground and a large screen. A woman stands in…Peeping Tom (1960) movie still: medium — A dimly lit lobby features a sign reading LIFTS above a wooden paneled wall. A woman in a yellow blouse…Peeping Tom (1960) movie still: medium — A young boy sits on top of a wooden backyard fence surrounded by trees. The boy gazes toward the right side…Peeping Tom (1960) movie still: wide — A dark, dimly lit room contains a central wooden table with a film projector. The woman in an orange dress…Peeping Tom (1960) movie still: wide — A dark, empty British city street at night lined with multi-story brick buildings. A solitary blonde woman in…Peeping Tom (1960) movie still: medium — A mid-century office features beige walls, a wooden desk, and a window with curtains. Three men interact…Peeping Tom (1960) movie still: medium — A professional recording space features vertical fabric wall treatments and low light levels. A man films a…Peeping Tom (1960) movie still: medium — A dark, cluttered archive room contains shelves packed with stacked, wrapped paper bundles. A young man and…Peeping Tom (1960) movie still: closeup — A close-up shot focuses on a single human eye against a dark background. The bright blue iris is sharply…Peeping Tom (1960) movie still: closeup — A woman's face is illuminated in a dark room against an absolute black background. The subject is wearing…
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Peeping Tom — official trailer

What is Peeping Tom about?

Loner Mark Lewis works at a film studio during the day and, at night, takes racy photographs of women. Also he's making a documentary on fear, which involves recording the reactions of victims as he murders them. He befriends Helen, the daughter of the family living in the apartment below his, and he tells her vaguely about the movie he is making.

Peeping Tom is a 1960 British psychological horror-thriller film directed by Michael Powell, written by Leo Marks, and starring Carl Boehm, Moira Shearer, Anna Massey and Maxine Audley. The film revolves around a serial killer who murders women while using a portable film camera to record their dying expressions of terror, putting his footage together into a snuff film used for his own self-pleasure. Its title derives from the expression "Peeping Tom", which describes a voyeur.

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Where can you watch Peeping Tom?

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What does the cinematography of Peeping Tom look like?

Across 62 sampled frames, Peeping Tom builds its coverage from medium shots (55% of the sample), with close-ups (26%) carrying much of the rest. Cinematographer Otto Heller keeps 61% of it in soft, low-key light. 69% of the frames play at night or in the failing light of dusk. Focus stays shallow in 77% of the frames, isolating subjects from their surroundings.

What is the color palette of Peeping Tom?

The dominant colors across the sampled frames of Peeping Tom (1960) are #0e0c0c, #312d2e, #504d4b, #d7d3cc, #2b1512, #483830 — measured from the per-frame color data FrameThrower extracts for every film.

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  • #312d2e
  • #504d4b
  • #d7d3cc
  • #2b1512
  • #483830

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