Peeping Tom

So, uh, but then it was...

Giallo was inspired by Hitchcock and by Peeping Tom, Michael Pollard, um, you know, Psycho, so it's all, it's all cyclical.

Everything influences everything else on all- corners of the globe.

So yeah, so I've, I've decided to kind of keep it within that 'cause a- again, there's a lot of giallo films just in that fucking period.

Absolutely.

Because a lot of people like to say that the first slasher film is either Psycho or Peeping Tom.

I think people like to cite Psycho specifically because they want the first one to be like a classy choice.

And people like to cite Peeping Tom because they

want to be a hipster.

They want to

D-did these kids really die? Are we watching a snuff film? Uh, "Cannibal Holocaust" is another one like that where it's found footage of, "Oh my gosh, this is a snuff film." But this is happening before the Halloweens, years before the Halloween, before F- um, Freddy, before Jason.

This is probably the most gruesome, at least to your imagination, slasher, and I think it is the godfather of the slashers, even though we've covered "Peeping Tom." That's probably the earliest-

I like "Peeping Tom"

... slasher.

But it's, it's not quite there as far as scares.

I give it five stars.

We've covered "Black Christmas." That's often stated as the first slasher.

So you could argue "Peeping Tom," "Black Christmas." This is just different.

I have never seen it.

It is Peeping Tom.

Powell and Pressburger's-

Oh, yeah

...

Peeping Tom, which is a classic-

Let's go to London

... serial killer, yeah, type movie.

[laughs]

No. Peeping Tom, that's a movie that I really wanna see.

Hmm, 'cause Nick likes peeping.

Yeah, right.

The potentials, and I will, I will guarantee to watch three.

I will try and watch more.

Peeping Tom, Phenomena, Scream.

Host I put on there now.

Sadly, it took OJT for the lesson to really stick.

Peeping Tom, 1960, more British horror.

Let he among us who didn't wander our childhood neighborhood at night trying to catch a glimpse cast the first stone.

This movie shows if one really loves their work and applies himself, there's really no stopping them.

A lot of people consider that the first slasher.

There's some debate about whether it's that or Peeping Tom, which was released a few months earlier in, in the UK.

Right.

But I don't know if that counts as a slasher.