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4K Restoration Trailer for Michael Powell’s ‘Peeping Tom’ from 1960

"All this filming isn't healthy..." Studiocanal UK has unveiled a brand new trailer for a 4K restoration + re-release of a provocative classic titled Peeping Tom. This originally opened in 1960, but then was banned and shunned for years, finally being appreciated only decades later as a precursor to slasher films. It was the second film made on his own by Michael Powell, one half of the famous Powell & Pressburger duo, but this time he explores a dark topic. A young man murders women, using a movie camera to film their dying expressions of terror. 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. An influential cinematic film written by Leo Marks, starring Carl Boehm, Anna Massey, Moira Shearer, and Maxine Audley, Peeping Tom also plays as part of the BFI's Cinema Unbound: The Creative Worlds of Powell and Pressburger season at BFI ...
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How Hollywood Bet Big on ‘The Exorcist’ … and Lost

Jason Blum could make (another) fortune telling fellow studio executives how to turn a profit. The horror producer focuses on low budgets, killer concepts and actors who may not necessarily turn heads at the cineplex. Did anyone know who Daniel Kaluuya was before 2017’s “Get Out?” (They sure do now, though) Blum’s business model is …

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