Peeping Tom Special Edition

A film so reviled on its initial release it ended the long and esteemed career of its director Michael Powell, but 20 years later went on to spearhead his reverential critical revival. By day, the timid and socially withdrawn Mark works in a film studio and takes porno photos as a little sideline. By night he murders pretty girls, filming the event from his point of view to allow him to relive it when he re-watches his footage. It's still strikingly chilling in its open address of the potential for the perverse inherent within cinema - namely, voyeurism. The loss of material to forced cuts by the BBFC is a major grievance, but it still sends the skin crawling and the mind whirring. A genuinely creepy classic, its content is all the more horrific because what it has to say is particularly pertinent to the cinephile fraternity that sing its praises. [Jack McFarlane]