I cannot speak highly enough of Peeping Tom. To think that this four-star masterpiece basically ended the brilliant Michael Powell's career is heartbreaking and nauseating. There were critics in England who actually said things like "this vile film and its creator should be flushed down the loo." I mean, respected film critics who, of course, have all revised their thoughts and now consider it a masterpiece. They are not contrite, however, they don't see the harm they did, they just quietly forget their inane rantings and pretend they never thought ill of the film. The interesting thing is that Psycho, a film released the same year as Peeping Tom, and a film just as dark and disturbing as Peeping Tom, made Hitch even richer and more famous than he'd ever been. And Eyes Without a Face, an equally disturbing and poetic film, also made its director even more well thought of - it, too, came out at the same time, in fact, a bit earlier.
