The director's TV movie about a high-rise stalker was once considered his 'lost film.'
Director John Carpenter's early movies like Assault on Precinct 13 and Halloween show how effective he can be when creating soundscapes to build the threat of personified forces of destruction. Into the ‘80s, Carpenter refined these skills, which makes it all the more startling to watch his NBC made-for-TV movie which has very little of his usual Carpenterisms. Someone’s Watching Me! was incredibly hard to find not too long ago. It was even considered the director’s lost film.
Halloween pulls much influence from Hitchcock’s Psycho, the two finding terror in small towns, where a knife-happy killer attacks first Janet Leigh, then her daughter, Jamie Lee Curtis. In Someone’s Watching Me! there is even greater inspiration from a Hitchcock classic. Whereas Psycho and Halloween call the horror genre their home, John Carpenter’s TV movie Someone's Watching Me! has a set-up reminiscent of Rear Window where voyeurism is crucial to the mystery thriller.
Leigh, and how Lauren Hutton plays her, helps to keep the story engaging when it isn’t focused on the thriller aspects. Leigh is not easily frazzled, she’s good under pressure even if she wishes she didn’t have to deal with the stress. She often talks to herself, to prepare for a job interview or to kill the empty noise that sits around her in her new place. Initially, she reacts to the odd occurrences as if it’s catcalling, mistaking the stalker’s mind games for what they are.
John Carpenter Wrote 'Someone's Watching Me!' as a Feature Film Although that didn’t happen, he was just as happy to get it made as a TV movie. A fun fact relating to the placement of Someone’s Watching Me! on Carpenter’s cinematic resume, he worked on this and two weeks later, went on to direct Halloween. Notably, it has less of Carpenter’s favorite idea of a silent, unstoppable, like in Assault on Precinct 13 and what would take on a whole other life in many of his later movies.
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