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What did you guys watch for Halloween? I saw a couple of horror
things but late Halloween night as I gorged on candy the
trick-r-treaters didn't take it was Michael Powell's masterpiece of
technicolor terror called Peeping Tom that I tucked myself in with.
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I've seen the film many many times of course but now that I'm keeping track of such things it was this scene that leapt out at me.
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This is the
scene where Mark (a really fantastic Karlheinz Böhm, who should get more credit than he does) lays out his
back-story, his ghost, to the downstairs neighbor lady that he is courting...
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... Mark tells how his father, a psychologist, did experiments of fear on him as a kid, those candy-colored textbooks being the small tattered legacy that lay waste to the man he would become. This being a film by Michael Powell you can just tell by the way the colors don't match, don't fit in, that something is aberrant there.
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