"Even brilliant colour photography by Otto Heller cannot reconcile me to a film as loathesome as this. It exploits fears and Inhibitions for the lowest motives. It trades In the self-same kind of obsession that it relates."
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Peeping Tom in 1960 received a hostile response from the other London critics as well.
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