Peacock Cinema Presents: PEEPING TOM (15)

Screening as part of the Moira Shearer & The Archers strand of The Red Shoes Festival.
Dunfermline-born Moira Shearer stars in Michael Powell’s 1960 British psychological horror-thriller about a reclusive film studio worker who obsessively documents fear through his camera lens.
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?
Join us for the first film of our second weekend of The Red Shoes Festival – a summer celebration of Scottish music and dance, centred on Dunfermline’s own Moira Shearer and the cultural places and people connected to her life and legacy and marking the centenary of her birth.
The Moira Shearer and The Archers strand is a wonderful centenary celebration of Dunfermline’s own film & ballet star.
This strand pays homage to her work alongside Michael Powell and Eric Pressburger’s British films.
Dirs: Michael Powell
Cast: Karlheinz Böhm, Moira Shearer, Anna Massey
Production Year: 1960