A woman is being watched in her apartment by a stranger, who also calls and torments her. A cat-and-mouse game begins.
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Title: Someone's Watching Me! (TV Movie 1978)
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| Lauren Hutton | ... | Leigh Michaels | |
| David Birney | ... | Paul Winkless | |
| Adrienne Barbeau | ... | Sophie | |
| Charles Cyphers | ... | Gary Hunt | |
| Grainger Hines | ... | Steve | |
| Len Lesser | ... | Burly Man | |
| John Mahon | ... | Frimsin | |
| James Murtaugh | ... | Leone | |
| J. Jay Saunders | ... | Police Inspector | |
| Michael Laurence | ... | TV Announcer | |
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George Skaff | ... | Herbert Stiles |
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Robert Phalen | ... | Wayne |
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Robert Snively | ... | Groves |
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Jean Le Bouvier | ... | Waitress |
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James McAlpine | ... | Slick Man |
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A woman is slowly stalked to the brink of madness by a man watching her from the opposite tower block. Her attempts to get the police to take her seriously leave her with no option but to track him down herself. Written by Scott Dawson <sdawson@easynet.co.uk>, edited by Nicolas Barbulesco
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The Lost John Carpenter Suspense Classic - Never Before On Video Or DVD!Parents Guide:
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29 November 1978 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
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Paul Winkless: Uh-huh, what are you testing?
Leigh Michaels: I have strange fears.
Paul Winkless: Really? What?
Leigh Michaels: Being raped by dwarves. You could've been sitting up there on stilts, I, I had to check.
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Leigh Michaels: [taps Paul's leg] Just testing.Paul Winkless: Uh-huh, what are you testing?
Leigh Michaels: I have strange fears.
Paul Winkless: Really? What?
Leigh Michaels: Being raped by dwarves. You could've been sitting up there on stilts, I, I had to check.
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While feature films became a staple of 1970s TV - think "Brian's Song" and "Sybil" - few were like John Carpenter's "Someone's Watching Me!". The story is quite familiar: a woman (Lauren Hutton) moves into an apartment, starts getting strange phone calls, and eventually realizes that there's a peeping tom in the vicinity. As this is a TV movie, there are unfortunately some things that we don't get to see (namely Lauren Hutton naked), and the spots where they obviously had commercial breaks gives the movie a slight feeling of silliness. But the really neat factor springs from the clear homage to other kinds of horror flicks: the voyeurism scenes look like a "Psycho" reference.
As for the cast, Lauren Hutton easily looks vulnerable enough, but I can't figure out why the characters in these movies take threatening phone calls in stride; I would have immediately suspected that something was amiss. You can see Adrienne Barbeau getting primed for the other kinds of between-A-and-B-movies in which she would later star.
So, it's mostly your average suspense movie, but certainly one that you'll enjoy. And just be suspicious the next time that your lights start flickering.