Peeping Tom (1960)
In this day and age, in a society so numb to violence, it is hard to imagine a time when people used to be scared by Vincent Price movies. Back then, it was commonplace for horror films to revolve around either the classic monsters (Frankenstein, Dracula and so on), or the fears of the Atomic Era (such as aliens, giant mutations resulting from radioactivity, and failed scientific experiments with catastrophic results). Although the Hammer films, with their graphic violence, were pushing the boundaries of what could be shown onscreen, the horror element itself was still quite detached from reality, be it in some Gothic castle in the past or in the laboratory of a crazy scientist in the near future. It was not until 1960, with Michael Powell 's Peeping Tom and Alfred Hitchcock 's Psycho , that horror was brought to the real world, to the present-day society: far away from the literal monsters from before, embodying pure evil alone, the killers in these movies were n