White Wall Cinema: PEEPING TOM

• DOORS: 7.00pm*
• START TIME: 7.30pm*
• RUN TIME: 101 mins
• CERT: 15 

As part of a major BFI nationwide celebration, ‘Cinema Unbound: The Creative Worlds of Powell and Pressburger,’ we are excited to present this special screening of the infamous 1960 classic psychological horror ‘Peeping Tom’.

The film’s director, Michael Powell, best known for his collaborations with directing partner Emeric Pressburger (the duo creating legendary works such as The Red Shoes, A Matter Of Life & Death, Black Narcissus, The Tales of Hoffman and more), seemingly ended his own career when he struck out on his own to create this controversial classic.

​Released the same year as Hitchcock’s Psycho, Peeping Tom is an equally brilliant piece of filmmaking that failed at the box office due to revulsion of a shocked British establishment press. This twisted tale of a psychopathic serial killer cameraman who films his victims as he murders them is now widely considered to be a highly influential masterpiece that has subsequently been championed by the likes of master director Martin Scorsese and feminist film theorist Laura Mulvey.

​Not only a pre-cursor to the modern slasher movie, Peeping Tom is also a psychologically sharp thriller that asks difficult and fascinating questions about cinema as a form of voyeurism. Undoubtedly one of the best British movies ever made it is a must see big screen experience when coupled with our special visual mix-tape introduction (and our companion piece film on Nov. 29th).

​Programmed as part of Brighton’s Powell and Pressburger: Dual Delights Season, we have matched it with very a special companion piece in Brian DePalma’s ‘Blow Out’, screening Weds. Nov. 29th. Details HERE.

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