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If you like to be scared, if you like to laugh, and if you like to learn a thing or two at the movies, this absolutely cannot be missed.

I didn’t really have many expectations going into the movie (good or bad), but I actually really enjoyed it. I really liked the characters and the banter between them.

By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.

The TV director Leigh Michaels (Lauren Hutton) moves from New York to the fancy apartment building Arkham Tower in Los Angeles to forget a relationship. She is hired by a local television and befriends the lesbian assistant Sophie (Adrienne Barbeau). Then she dates the philosophy professor Paul Winkless (David Birney) and starts a relationship with him. Leigh is a woman that likes to joke and out of the blue she receives gifts and strange phone calls. Soon she realizes that a stranger is stalking her driving her mad with phone calls, gifts and letters. Leigh and Paul decide to go to the police but the police inspector tells that he cannot do anything to help her. Leigh decides to investigate the opposite tower block, she witness the stranger killing Sophie. She calls the police but no one but Paul believes her. What can she do? "Someone's Watching Me!" is one of the first movies by John Carpenter and homage to Alfred Hitchcock's "Rear Windown". Despite the low budget since it is made for television, the story holds the attention of the viewer until the last scene. The cat-and-mouse game between the stalker and Leigh is tense and full of suspense with great performance of Lauren Hutton. My vote is seven.Title (Brazil): "Alguém Me Vigia" ("Someone's Watching Me")

Nicely suspenseful television movie from the director of "Halloween" stars Lauren Hutton as Leigh Michaels, having moved from NYC (and a bad relationship) to LA, getting a job at a broadcast station, finding a nice, posh apartment in one of those swank high rises, named Arkham Tower. Leigh befriends lesbian Sophie(Adrienne Barbeau) who is a co-worker at the station as well as a professor she falls in love with, Paul (David Birney). Leigh starts receiving weird phone calls and unusual faux travel brochures, eventually realizing that a voyeur, with access it seems to her apartment and the electrical systems of Arkham Tower, is keeping a close eye on her every activity. It also seems that this bastard, the creep with a telescope and recording machine, has set a bug in Leigh's room and perhaps has preyed upon other female victims in the past. Leigh, however, is a tough chick and doesn't scare easy, but when her pleas to police (including inspector Gary Hunt, played by Carpenter regular Charles Cyphers) seem to gain less and less traction (particularly after they arrest a photographer believed to be the culprit), fear and paranoia set in and she may have to face the killer/stalker on her own. With shades of "Rear Window" (Sophie looks on from Leigh's apartment as she enters the voyeur's pad, resulting in a tragic series of events our heroine cannot prevent), Carpenter wrings as much suspense and palpable dread he can out of the familiar premise. Sure "Someone's Watching Me!" is a "safe" television thriller, but thanks to the affective use of the dark, Carpenter ably evokes foreboding because we never get an exact look of the killer's face until the very end, although the director does show the inside of his lair, the tape recorder spinning, his eye shown behind the telescope as he peeps at Hutton. Hutton is very, very good here, at first, her character doesn't take the phone calls seriously, but as events spiral out of control and the creep leaves her written messages, teasing her with an eerie writing on her bathroom mirror (this is a cool scene where the writing is on a mirror by way of moisture because the steaming shower is running, with Carpenter showing the message slowly evaporate), the poor woman's emotional state is tested. With Paul as her ally, Leigh might just get to the bottom of her predator's identity, how he's able to gain access to apartments, have such free reign to torment ladies he fixates on. A nice supporting part for future scream queen Barbeau; her fate is certainly harrowing. Hutton has a strong character, here, and a pleasant personality, not to mention, a charming wit and warm sense of humor—this is important because when she is victimized you hope she gets even with her tormentor. This film, to be a television movie, has a cinematic style and sophisticated camera-work; Carpenter buffs should check it out. I think the best scene could be early on, where Carpenter establishes the menace's threat, when Hutton finds her door open, entering reluctantly to find that someone has been there, not knowing (as she peers out her window) that the peeping tom is behind her, scurrying away really quickly ("darting past" is probably more apt), before she could get a good look at him. I think this scene is important in that it points out how easily he could be in the same room with her, with us understanding that his threat is legitimate.

Sassy TV director Leigh Michaels (an engagingly spunky and spirited performance by the lovely Lauren Hutton) arrives in Los Angeles and moves into a swanky high-rise apartment. Some peeping tom creep starts stalking her from afar, taunting her with crank phone calls and sinister letters in the mail. But Leigh refuses to play victim and becomes determined to uncover the nut's true identity. Writer/director John Carpenter ably builds plenty of tension, maintains a brisk pace throughout, and stages one doozy of a harrowing climax. Moreover, there's a pertinent and provocative central message about how advances in technology make it easier for someone to invade another person's privacy. Hutton positively shines in the lead; she gets fine support from David Birney as affable college professor Paul Winkless, Adrienne Barbeau as friendly lesbian coworker Sophie, Carpenter movie regular Charles Cyphers as unhelpful police detective Paul Hunt, Grainger Hines as smarmy technician Steve, and Len Lesser as a menacing burly man. Rober Hauser's sharp, polished cinematography and Harry Sukman's classy, rousing, shivery score are both up to par. Well worth a look.

while i admit there is lots of tension in this movie,it's almost too much.the problem i found is that(to me at least)the movie keeps building to a climax which is less exciting than the rest of the movie.there is one pretty thrilling moment in the movie,but for me,that's about it.this is by no means a bad movie.in fact,think it was very well done and the acting is top rate.i just felt it was too drawn out.this is John carpenter's third picture,and was intended for the big screen at one point.but somewhere along the line,it was decided to make it into a TV movie.it's not overly violent and certainly not very graphic.even though i thought the movie was drawn out,it was still entertaining enough o watch until the end.if you don't mind a really slow build up,you will probably enjoy this one.by the way,this movie also available as part of the Twisted Terror collection,which also includes five other horror movies.anyway,for me,Someone's Watching Me is a 6/10