OOPS, I DID IT AGAIN: Join me and my guest, playwright, director and screenwriter Steven Peros (The Cat’s Meow, Footprints), as we talk Psycho/Peeping Tom, two films about serial killers that changed movies forever.

It happens to the best of us. You get these urges. You can’t help yourself. Someone dies. Then someone else dies. Then someone else dies. What’s a serial killer to do…Sounds like it’s time for Episode 93 of Pop Art, where we find the pop culture in art and the art in pop culture. It’s the podcast where my guest chooses a movie from popular culture, and I’ll select a film from the more art/classic/indie side of cinema with a connection to it. I am your “A boy’s best friend is his mother” host, Howard Casner. Today, I am happy to welcome as my guest, playwright, director and screenwriter Steven Peros, who has chosen as his film the Alfred Hitchcock classic Psycho, while I have chosen the Michael Powell thriller Peeping Tom, both voyeuristic films about characters who go a little mad sometimes.  

And in this episode, we answer such questions as: Why was Psycho such a hit and Peeping Tom such a flop? What is it about serial killer movies anyway? Is Psycho postmodern? Why was Rebecca such an important film in Hitchcock’s history? Why did Peeping Tom get reevaluated? From a Freudian standpoint, what is interesting about the Bate’s House? Why does the central character in Peeping Tom have a German accent when he is supposed to be British? Was Psycho really responsible for Perkin’s and Leigh’s lackluster careers afterwards? Who was compared to the Marquis de Sade? Why does Psycho start on Friday, December 11th?