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List Price: $14.98 | | Label: Warner Home Video
Salesrank: 52386
Released: September 25, 2007 |
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MPAA Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
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 leaves her with no option but to track him down herself.
Someone's Watching Me Reviews:
Club Dead Vacations 
2008-12-04 - A great American "giallo" film
written and directed by John Carpenter.
I'm a John Carpenter fan and I'm surprised
that this film is overlooked when a discussion
of his films is engaged.
I'm also surprised that this was a television
production.
It is certainly good enough have
been released in theaters.
A clever killer stalking a woman
is not an unique plot,
but it is all in how it's done
and Carpenter does it right.
If you enjoy Hitchcock and Argento,
you will certainly enjoy this.
The pacing is great.
Slowly building the tension
from beginning to end.
It gets better and better with
some virtuoso cinematography.
The very ending was somewhat
disappointing for me.
Not experientially which is excellent,
but rather the plot.
That is a subjective opinion.
I have no doubt that others
would defend it vigorously
and I can guess what their valid
arguments would be.
The only substantial flaw in the film
was the musical score.
It is standard canned TV movie music.
If this film was also scored by John Carpenter,
in his unique style,
it would have been several degrees better.
I would love it if Mr. Carpenter composed
a score for this film and re-released it
on DVD.
That would yield a five-star film review.
There is a notable discontinuity in the
circumference of a scanning telescope image
that is sloppy film-making/editing
and partially damages a great sequence.
I Love This Kind Of Thing:
Check out the reflection of the man's face
in the knife on the insert illustration.
Look at it up close and then from a distance.
Nice!
You will want to watch
"Someone's Watching Me"
more than once,
which makes it an excellent
addition to your collection.
long time favorite 
2008-05-30 - "Someone's Watching Me" is a long time favorite of mine and I'm glad it can now be enjoyed on video.
This film is in the very best tradition of a great Hitchcock film. John Carpenter does a superb job with the direction. Lauren Hutton did a more than credible acting job and carries this film from the first scene to the end, as she was in almost every scene. Hutton is an under rated actress, probably because she came from the modeling world, but in this film it is obvious she has some serious acting chops. She is well supported in "Someone's Watching Me" by another very under rated actress, Adrienne Barbeau. Barbeau is excellent and very believeable in her supporting role.
If you are a fan of Hitchcock I highly recommend this film. Carpenter serves the Hitchcock tradition proudly. Another reason to enjoy this film is the fine acting of Hutton and Barbeau. This is an under rated film that deserved more recognition. The work of Carpenter, Hutton and Barbeau is superb.
Interesting early Carpenter
2008-05-16 - **Mild spoilers**
I have been a huge fan of EARLY John Carpenter ever since I was a kid. From the absolute awesomeness of Halloween, the grungy thrills of Assault on Precinct 13, the intense paranoia and pessimism of The Thing to the sheer junk heaven of Big Trouble in Little China, his early films are sheer cinema bliss. So when I recently saw that Someone's Watching Me, a TV movie he made right before Halloween, had been finally released on DVD a couple of years ago, I raced out to get it. The film stars Lauren Hutton as a young woman who moves to Los Angeles and finds a job at a local TV station. She moves into a high-end, high-rise apartment building that faces another high-rise. Soon after moving in she is stalked by someone in the other apartment building, although she is initially unaware that anything is amiss. Alright, I admit that this story outline makes this sound like a lame direct-to-DVD potboiler, but the fun in the film comes from its less predictable, even bizarre elements. First off, Hutton's character is really unlike any other main character I've seen; a real goofball, she happily chatters away to herself walking down the halls of her apartment building and makes jokes that other characters don't get or that cause them to squirm. The strange way in which she is stalked, which involves a series of gifts sent by a fictional travel agency asking her to guess the destination of her prize trip so that she can win it, also adds to its unpredictability. I also adore the scene where Hutton, sitting by herself in her car, is approached by a man who leans in and says "It's a hell of a life, isn't it?" then stumbles away, never to be seen again. Sadly the plausibility starts to take a steep dive in the final scenes as the inevitable confrontation is nothing you haven't seen a million times in many other movies. Still, I found the movie highly entertaining (enough that I watched it a second time the next night, something I never do).
Someone's watching me FINALLY ON DVD !
2007-10-25 -
Finally this 'lost' John Carpenter movie has been released on DVD. I already had it on VHS, which was very difficult to get hold of but after a search many years I found it in Australia !
I have seen this suspense movie many times, but I still consider it (with 'Halloween') to be one of Carpenter's best movies.
Onno
the Netherlands
Watchable...
2007-10-06 - Right after his bleakly hilarious DARK STAR and the wonderfully tense ASSAULT ON PRECINCT 13 (where even a little girl is not spared from the mayhem), John Carpenter ran head-on into man's greatest horror- Network television! Confined to a medium consisting of almost pure cheeze, Carpenter directed a decent thriller called SOMEONE'S WATCHING ME. TV director, Liegh Micheals (Lauren Hutton) is "stalked" by a creep w/ a telescope and surveillance equipment. This guy is serious about his obsession, even bugging Liegh's apartment and controlling her electricity! Liegh has tried moving, changing her number to an unlisted one, etc., but nothing works. Now, with the help of her friend Sophie (Adrienne Barbeau of The Fog, Creepshow) and her new boyfriend (David Birney), Liegh sets out to catch the bothersome freak. With some obvious (and frequent) nods to REAR WINDOW and a strong, gutsy female lead, SWM is not typical tele-junk. I enjoyed Liegh's courage and her "I'm not gonna put up with this" attitude. Especially when she begins taking it right to her tormentor's home turf! Check it out... P.S.- Watch for Charles Cyphers (Halloween 1+2, The Fog) as a cop...
