Today, the film is universally considered a masterpiece and consistently ends up on lists for the greatest horror film of all time. It was included in a BFI poll for the best British films of all time. Roger Ebert has included it in his 'Great Movies' column and states "it didn't allow the audience to lurk anonymously in the dark, but implicated us in the voyeurism of the title character... It is a movie about looking... His film is a masterpiece precisely because it doesn't let us off the hook, like all those silly teenage slasher movies do"Martin Scorsese stated that it says "everything that can be said about film-making, about the process of dealing with film, the objectivity and subjectivity of it and the confusion between the two....shows the aggression of it, how the camera violates.... From studying them you can discover everything about people who make films or at least people who express themselves through films."It is refreshing to read that you Keg Master don't care that you make a fool of yourself by disagreeing with people who obviously know more about the subject of filmmaking than you. Unless your career in filmmaking rivals the best directors and film critics.