BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//ChamberMaster//Event Calendar 2.0//EN METHOD:PUBLISH X-PUBLISHED-TTL:P3D REFRESH-INTERVAL:P3D CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20240120T201500Z DTEND:20240120T220000Z X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:FALSE SUMMARY:Peeping Tom DESCRIPTION:Mark\, 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 sadistic 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. 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 recognised as a watershed in genre cinema\, its themes of voyeurism and psychopathy proving hugely influential on the evolution of the slasher movie. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

Mark\, 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 sadistic killer\, stalking his victims with his camera forever in his hand trying to capture the look of genuine\, unadulterated fear &ndash\; an obsession that stems from his disturbing and terrifying childhood at the hands of his scientist father. 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&rsquo\;s career in tatters and the film was made unavailable for many years. PEEPING TOM has since become recognised as a watershed in genre cinema\, its themes of voyeurism and psychopathy proving hugely influential on the evolution of the slasher movie.

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\n LOCATION:Triskel Arts Centre\, Tobin Street\, Cork City UID:e.2489.33610 SEQUENCE:3 DTSTAMP:20260409T003211Z URL:https://chamber.corkchamber.ie/events/details/peeping-tom-33610 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR