Someone's Watching Me! (1978)
Considered John Carpenter's lost movie, this 1978 made for tv affair was the directors first work with Adrienne Barbeau who would go on to be a Carpenter regular during the eighties.
Unfortunately for me this film didn't work at all. It feels like a Channel 5 Monday afternoon production and holds little in the way of suspense and no blood whatsoever. Lauren Hutton heads the film but i didn't find her convincing as the woman in peril from a mysterious stalker.
The film lacked any of Carpenters flourishes and was severely crying out for one of his compositions to give the film a layer of class in the Hitchcock tradition.
Last night was a second viewing for me and to be honest it didn't engage me at all. The ten minute interview with Carpenter as an extra feature on the disc was more satisfying than the film itself.
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