Someone's Watching Me!

1978

Action / Horror / Mystery / Thriller

18
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 59% · 8 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 59% · 500 ratings
IMDb Rating 6.5/10 10 6264 6.3K

stalker stalking

Plot summary

A young woman moves to a high-rise apartment building and soon begins to be tormented by an unknown stalker who seems to know her every move.

Director

John Carpenter Photo
John Carpenter

Top cast

Charles Cyphers Photo
Charles Cyphers as Gary Hunt
David Birney Photo
David Birney as Paul Winkless
Lauren Hutton Photo
Lauren Hutton as Leigh Michaels
Len Lesser Photo
Len Lesser as Burly Man
720p.BluRay 1080p.BluRay
805.9 MB
968*720
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  
23.976 fps
1 hr 37 min
Seeds 3
1.53 GB
1440*1072
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  
23.976 fps
1 hr 37 min
Seeds 17

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by Bob-376

Great!

An early TV movie by director John Carpenter about Lauren Hutton who's being stalked in her apartment, you know the sort of thing. This is pretty good actually and it still plays well today. Definately one of my favorites, Halloween was made shortly after, I think.
Reviewed by Lechuguilla 7 / 10

Night Terror

From the get-go this is one scary film. The daytime skyline of L.A. dissolves to nighttime accompanied by spooky music. Then, inside some room, a man's hand turns on a tape recorder and dials a telephone number. He wheels around a telescope pointed toward the window of his female target, Leigh (Lauren Hutton). After a brief vocal exchange, the man tells her: "Come to the window; all those windows out there; and I'm behind one of them".So begins "Someone's Watching Me", a suspenseful thriller about an attractive female TV broadcaster stalked by an unknown man. One of the scariest sequences has Leigh coming back to her high rise apartment and finding the front door unlocked. She calls the manager who tells her that although maintenance men were in her apartment earlier he personally locked it behind them. She sounds innocently skeptical. As the camera slowly pans around to the living room behind Leigh, a man suddenly and silently darts across the living room carpet ...Suspense is heightened by the fact that Leigh lives alone, and by the fact that much of the plot takes place at night. There's an effective use of silence in a couple of sequences toward the end that further enhances suspense.Despite the obvious suspense, the script has some problems, most notably the inanity of Leigh choosing to re-locate to a more secure residence that's exactly like the one wherein she was previously stalked ... a high rise apartment that looks out toward another high rise with lots of windows. Also, some of Leigh's specific actions and some dialogue are silly and unrealistic. Further, I was quite disappointed by the film's ending.Film direction and cinematography are fine and contribute to the suspense. Casting is acceptable. Overall performances are average. I thought Adrienne Barbeau, as Leigh's friend Sophie, gave a particularly good performance.If the viewer overlooks the script's defects and doesn't expect too much from the story's ending, this can be an absorbing film to watch. Females might not want to watch it at night while alone.
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