Cultural References
- Mike Patton's band Peeping Tom, and its self-titled album, are named in tribute to this movie.
- Scarlett Thomas makes reference to the film in her 1999 novel In Your Face.
- The film is referenced by Ghostface in Wes Craven's Scream 4 (2011) as being the first film to "put the audience in the killer's POV."
- During a reminiscence in David Foster Wallace's novel Infinite Jest, Dr. James O. Incandenza, the man who went on to make a film that literally kills its audience, refers to having "still-posters from Powell's Peeping Tom" in his childhood bedroom.
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