I look forward to reading your review.
I think Iām going to take a temporary break from watching movies after the Spagvemberfest and besides, Iāve been mostly focused on viewing flicks from the 1980s and 1990s recently, so I donāt know how long itās gonna take. However, Iāve also got some older bits and bobs stashed on my hard drive, so I might get around to watching it while cleaning my film folder of these leftovers, weāll see.
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I was not talking about just if the film is good or not (even though personally I think itās a great one) but about the significance of the film especially for the horror genre. I think Psycho and Peeping Tom were the films that changed the horror genre from monster movies to more adult themes and serial killers stories.
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Now Iām doubly interested.
I see.
I wasnāt aware that the film had such significance until I bought a copy.The history of PEEPING TOM interested me more than the actual film. I canāt deny itās impact.
Peeping Tom also almost ended the career of Karlheinz Bƶhm, loved for the Sissi films. Most viewers in German-speaking countries found the transition from kaiser to killer unbearable and tasteless. I wonder why.
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Really?
I know PEEPING TOM ended the career of the director.
Bohm was good in PEEPING TOM I must admit.
āUnstoppableā (2010)
Based on āreal eventsā, directed by the lateTony Scott, and featuring excellent performances from Denzel Washington, and Chris Pine, this tale of an unmanned, half-mile-long runaway freight train hurtling towards a heavily-populated city, is a roller-coaster ride from start to finish.
A film where every second literally countsā¦
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I really enjoyed it!
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Yes, it was considered scandalous at the time that Bƶhm, a respected mainstream actor who was strongly identified with his role as Kaiser Franz Joseph in the Sissi trilogy, played the leading part in such a disturbing, potentially transgressive film.
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I would like to see it.
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Iām confused. What would you like to see, Ali? The Sissi movies? You already watched Peeping Tom, as you wrote above.
The Sissi movies. Sorry I should have been more clear.
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Good choices
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Kellyās Heroes is a long film! I doubt I would have had the stamina to watch both films.
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Good luck with the Sissi films. My mother, who sadly passed away at the age of ninety-two last March, was a great fan of these three kitsch-bomb pictures by Viennese director Ernst Marischka. I, on the other hand, have not yet managed to watch even one of them from beginning to end. As a mean teenager, I used to make fun of my mom when she would sit completely enraptured in front of the TV on a Sunday afternoon, watching for the umpteenth time Sissi or Sissi ā The Young Empress or Sissi ā Fateful Years of an Empress. Today, of course, I regret my spitefulness, and now that the only fast lane my life is in is the one to becoming an old geezer, I think that maybe I should finally give them a real try.
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Iām sorry for your loss mate. 
I think my Grandmother was the same with GONE WITH THE WIND. Maybe I should give it a try.
Seems funny with all the old films I have and watched I avoid one of the most famous.
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Having read the book first, I was sorely disappointed with the movie.
Fritt Vilt (Cold Prey ā 2006, Rur Uthoag)
After one of them had a terrible accident, five young snowboarders seek shelter in an abandoned hotel. Obviously theyāre not alone ā¦ someone is sneaking in and around the hotel ā¦ and then one of them is attacked ā¦
The deliberate pace of this Norwegian slasher may irritate viewers who expect blood and gore from the start, but the film is well-acted and well-directed, with the emphasis on menace rather than blood and gore. The film is book-ended by two brief (but intriguing) sequences in which it is explained how a small boy could become a killer who attacks all those who come near.
The filmās success (both at home and abroad) led to two sequels and some think the First sequel even tops the original. Weāll see.
Ā½
Fritt Vilt II (Cold Prey 2 ā 2008)
Did it really top the original? Well, itās not bad, especially for a sequel, but like most sequels of successful horror movies it tries to stupefy audiences by offering more of the same in a more crude and blatant way. So no, it didnāt.
Jannicka (Ingrid BolsĆø Berdal), the only survivor of the First movie is taken to a hospital while the bodies of the victims and the killer are brought to the morgue, but of course the killer has somehow survived his own death. You can guess what happens next.
In the first movie the killer had been abandoned as a kid by his parents, who had left him for dead in the middle of nowhere in the snowy Norwegian wilderness: it was easy to understand how he had become the monster he was and in fact we felt a bit sorry for him. In this sequel he seems no longer human, but is instead turned into one of those murderous creatures that keep coming back.
BolsĆø Berdal has the filmās best line near the end, when asked why she is pointing a riot gun at the killer, who is already dead:
āI killed him before.ā
Ā½
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