Ok, so I have all these Criterion (sans Beauty and the Beast, and Bicycle Thieves due to stocking issues) and I’m going to try to go through them all and document them on a few levels.

Warning: This may get boring as hell.

So tonight was Peeping Tom, a British film circa 1960. I believe now that Silent Hill 4 is the Peeping Tom of games (ok, sorry, won’t do that again). Anyways, I have a soft spot for horror films, and horror films with as many facets that Peeping Tom has was a pleasure (sort of) to watch. Unfortunately I didn’t get all of the references that were being made (I’m not British no matter how much Monty Python I watch), but it wasn’t too difficult to watch and the language was more natural sounding to me than some of the American films of the time.

I found it interesting that the documentary included with the Criterion version (it was a very excellent documentary too) was titled A Very British Psycho. I have to admit to enjoying the psychology behind this film much more than Hitchcock’s Psycho (although it was as technically masterful). I found the most curious point of the documentary is that the film’s release was before Psycho. I’ve never really been a fan of Psycho, so I’m glad I never made this comparison before.

Technically this is Criterion on the lower end of the scale for cleaning up the film. It’s not too bad because I kind of like the soft and grainy look of this time period (ala Rosemary’s Baby, another very good horror film). I’m very happy to own this film, though now I’m going to have to convince my wife to watch it.

Up next: Naked Lunch! (this may take a while, there’s a lot of reading to do).