Michael Powell's PEEPING TOM 4K Restoration in cinemas 27 October

STUDIOCANAL are proud to announce the release of a spectacular 4K restoration of Michael Powell’s iconic serial killer classic PEEPING TOM, restored by The Film Foundation and BFI National Archive in association with STUDIOCANAL and premiering at the BFI London Film Festival on 7 October, followed by its release in UK cinemas from 27 October and as a Special Edition UHD, Blu-ray and DVD release from 29 January 2024. 

An influential cinematic masterpiece written by Leo Marks (Twisted Nerve) and starring Carl Boehm (Sissi), Anna Massey (Frenzy), Moira Shearer (The Red Shoes) and Maxine Audley (A King in New York), PEEPING TOM will also play as part of the BFI’s Cinema Unbound: The Creative Worlds of Powell and Pressburger season at BFI Southbank and UK-wide programme (16 Oct – 31 Dec) and at the Lumière Film Festival in Lyon (14-22 Oct). 

Mark (Carl Boehm), a focus puller at the local film studio, supplements his wages by taking glamour photographs in a seedy studio above a newsagent. By night he is a killer, stalking his victims with his camera forever in his hand trying to capture the look of genuine, unadulterated fear – an obsession that stems from his disturbing and terrifying childhood at the hands of his scientist father.  Mark slowly becomes enamoured with Helen (Anna Massey), who lives with her blind mother (Maxine Audley) in the flat downstairs, but how long before he turns the deadly gaze of his camera towards her? 

Now regarded as a ground-breaking masterpiece of the British horror movement, on its initial release in 1960, PEEPING TOM received a savage reception from critics who were dismayed by its controversial subject matter and the sympathy it seems to engender for its murderous protagonist.  The second film from visionary director Michael Powell, following his run of 1940s and 50s classics collaborating with screenwriter Emeric Pressburger, PEEPING TOM left Powell’s career in tatters and the film was made unavailable for many years.  PEEPING TOM has since become recognized as a watershed in genre cinema, its themes of voyeurism and psychopathy proving hugely influential on the evolution of the slasher movie.  

The 4K restoration of PEEPING TOM will receive its restoration world premiere at the BFI London Film Festival on:

Saturday 07 October at 12:30 at BFI Southbank, NFT1
Saturday 14 October at 20:00 at BFI Southbank, Studio
Book tickets here: LFF Tickets

PEEPING TOM will be released as a Special Edition DVD, BD and UHD on 29 January 2024

Special Features:

- Visions of Voyeurism: Peeping Tom by Sir Christopher Frayling
- Take Me To Your Cinema: The Legacy of Peeping Tom
- Restoring Peeping Tom
- The Eye of the Beholder
- Intro by Martin Scorsese (2007)
- Interview with Thelma Schoonmaker (2007)
- Audio Commentary by Professor Ian Christie
- Original Theatrical Trailer

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View the Trailer on YouTube.