These Awesome Horror Movies Were Critical Failures

Peeping Tom (1960)

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While Psycho became one of Hitchcock’s biggest hits, Peeping Tom ruined the career of legendary director British Michael Powell. It is crucial that both of these films were released in 1960, a time when social and cultures mores were changing dramatically. These two films are also the greatest argument for the blind-spot most critics have for horror. Today it consistently ranks as one of the best British films of all time.

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