By Sven Mikulec Michael Powell, one of the most distinguished British filmmakers of the 1940s and 1950s, basically ended his career when he made Peeping Tom in 1959. This is said with no exaggeration whatsoever. Peeping Tom was met with such disdain and loathing upon its premiere that the name of the filmmaker, who
"Peeping Tom". Films within a film, watching the watcher watch themselves. Psychological horror, via unforgiving, yet often richly coloured imagery. [Cinematography, Otto Heller; dir, Michael Powell]