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orpheuslookingback · 6 months

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Watching 1 horror movie everyday in October 31/31

Peeping Tom (1960), dir. Michael Powell

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hotvintagepoll · 2 months

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Bibi Andersson (The Seventh Seal, Persona, The Girls)— One of Ingmar Bergman's recurring actresses, but also showing up in films from the US, Italy, Soviet Union, and more, Bibi's beauty and grace charmed people on an international scale!

Anna Massey (Peeping Tom, Gideon’s Day)— I just think she's so cool and pretty <3

This is round 1 of the tournament. All other polls in this bracket can be found here. Please reblog with further support of your beloved hot sexy vintage woman.

[additional propaganda submitted under the cut]

Bibi Andersson:

#anna massey #bibi andersson #hotvintagepoll #fuck that old woman #ladies 1

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kaplancik5 · 8 months

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Jeremy Brett, with his wife Anna Massey, and their son David Huggins

#jeremy brett #peter william jeremy huggins #david huggins #anna massey #family #family pictures #family photos #cute #adorable

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quietparanoiac · 2 years

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I believe memory is responsible for nearly all these three-volume novels people write nowadays.

The Importance of Being Earnest (2002)

#The Importance of Being Earnest #The Importance of Being Earnest 2002 #Miss Prism #Cecily Cardew #Anna Massey #Reese Witherspoon #period drama #Oscar Wilde #my gifs

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fawnvelveteen · 2 years

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Couple At Party (1955)

A debutante at a 'Coming-Out Ball' for British actress Anna Massey in Highgate, north London. Picture Post - 7881 - A Deb Among the Stags - pub.

(Photo by Thurston Hopkins/Getty Images)

#Coming-Out Ball #debutante #debutante ball #Anna Massey #london #Thurston Hopkins #Couple At Party #1950s #1955 #Highgate

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letterboxd-loggd · 4 months

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Peeping Tom (1960) Michael Powell

December 16th 2023

#peeping tom #1960 #michael powell #karlheinz böhm #anna massey #maxine audley #moira shearer #esmond knight #jack watson #shirley anne field

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thecinephilejunkie · 1 month

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Peeping Tom

Directed by Michael Powell

Cinematography by Otto Heller

1960

#peeping tom #michael powell #karlheinz böhm #anna massey #suspense #horror #movies #film stills #cinematography #screencaps #film #cinema

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giftheplanet · 10 months

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Peeping Tom (1960)

Dir. Michael Powell

#Peeping Tom #karlheinz böhm #Anna Massey #Michael Powell #Movies #Film #Horror

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thatscarletflycatcher · 3 months

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#Rebecca #Rebecca 1979 #Jeremy Brett #Joanna David #Anna Massey #making a separate post for the folk that might peruse/follow the tags

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troublewithangels · 8 months

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anna massey in de sade (1969)

#anna massey #💘

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davidhudson · 9 months

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Anna Massey, August 11, 1937 – July 3, 2011.

With Alfred Hitchcock during the making of Frenzy (1972).

#anna massey #alfred hitchcock #cinema #film #movies

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scenephile · 1 year

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I don’t trust a man who walks quietly

#peeping tom #1960 #michael powell #anna massey #helen stephens #maxine audley #mrs. stephens #psychological horror #thriller #scenephile #movie quotes #film quotes #movie scenes #film scene #movie scene

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badmovieihave · 7 months

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Bad movie I have Oliver Twist 2007-2008

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taffetastrology · 10 months

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The signs as De Sade costumes

Aries

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#the signs as #zodiac aesthetic #astrology #horoscope #de sade #lilli palmer #senta berger #anna massey

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adamwatchesmovies · 5 days

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Peeping Tom (1960)

I’ve seen Michael Powell’s Peeping Tom on several lists of “the best slasher movies ever made”. I don’t know if it belongs among the likes of Halloween or The Burning. Not because it isn’t good. Quite the opposite; this is an excellent film. I’m saying it doesn’t belong because this isn’t really a slasher film. This psychological horror-thriller doesn’t have the masked killed, the character “in the know” or many of the other tropes you’d expect to see. Instead, it has the transitional elements that would someday become them. Semantics aside, this film stands confidently as a piece of horror history or on its own.

In London, Mark Lewis (Carl Boehm) is a photographer and aspiring filmmaker obsessed with capturing images of fear. Alone in his loft, he watches videos of the murders he's committed. As the investigators on his tail begin getting closer, he befriends Helen Stephens (Anna Massey).

It would be interesting to see Peeping Tom remade because so many aspects of it would be different if shot today. In 1960, cameras weren’t rare but they weren’t everpresent the way they are today and you could argue that we’ve become as obsessed with photography and videos as Mark. He isn’t merely shooting the last moments of his victim’s lives; he goes back to the scene of the crime the next morning to capture the looks on people’s faces when they wheel out the prostitute he murdered (Brenda Bruce). He wants to see how people react when they find the bodies. He wants to see the moment when his victims realize their lives are over again and again. Whenever he meets a woman and shows the slightest bit of interest in her, you wonder what he sees. Another victim? A kindred spirit? To a man this unhinged, is there a difference?

The thing is that Mark isn’t completely loony. Most of the time, he seems like a perfectly normal person. Perhaps a bit shy, but he has a normal job, the scenes with him and Helen are even a bit sweet - though they can make the middle feel a tad slow. You’d never guess just how disturbed he is under that facade, which makes him much scarier than someone like Jason Voorhees. This is the kind of character any psychologist would have a field day evaluating because each scene unveils a new layer of psychological complexity.

For the titular peeping tom alone, this is a great film but there are other elements to appreciate. The very first shot is from Mark’s point of view. It’s not because we’re going to have a twist reveal of his identity later; it’s so we can feel what it’s like to be him. We never see the actual murders - the camera always cuts away. This means we eagerly anticipate the scenes where Mark sits down to watch his snuff films - even if the scene just happened. Like him, we’re hoping to catch something we didn’t the first time. Every time, his reels fail to deliver what we want. It makes us look forward to the next crime. “This time, for sure” the film seems to say. For 101 minutes, we're addicts and that ending? It’s quite a shocker. You should’ve seen coming but didn’t, which makes it that much more unsettling.

Like so many horror classics before it, Peeping Tom was practically burned at the stake upon its initial release. In a way, you can sort of understand why. Even today, Mark Lewis makes your skin crawl and the idea that a “good movie” has to be “good for you” still prevails. The outrage made everyone miss the excellent storytelling and characterization at the core of Peeping Tom. This is a picture I see myself returning to, and appreciating more with every subsequent watch. (May 13, 2022)