Directed by:
John CarpenterScreenplay:
John CarpenterCinematography:
Robert B. HauserComposer:
Harry SukmanCast:
Lauren Hutton, David Birney, Adrienne Barbeau, Charles Cyphers, George Skaff, Len Lesser, Robert Phalen, Grainger Hines, James Murtaugh, Michael Laurence (more)Plots(1)
Lauren Hutton stars as stylish career girl Leigh Michaels, who lives in an ultra-modern, glassed-in high rise apartment. Leigh's relatively tranquil existence is shattered when she begins receiving disturbing phone calls - and ostentatious gifts - from a man living in the high-rise next to hers. Despite the increasingly threatening tone of her mystery caller, Leigh is unable to get any help from the police, simply because there's no real evidence that she's in danger. (Shout! Factory)
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For a TV film it’s certainly good, but for Carpenter it’s just average. It should be shorter, 97 minutes for such a simple story about one maniac and one victim is too much. I didn’t feel real tension until the last 10 minutes.
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John Carpenter may have made Someone's Watching Me! as a TV movie, but he managed to put so much tension into it that you simply won't find in many other similar thrillers. You could cut the atmosphere and it has a bit of an Italian giallo feel to it, which is nice, but it also has hints of a realistically gritty horror film like Halloween, which Carpenter made the same year.
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