Someone's Watching Me | 
| Director: John Carpenter
Actors: Lauren Hutton, David Birney, Adrienne Barbeau, Charles Cyphers, Grainger Hines
Studio: Warner Home Video
Category: DVD
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Rating:  8 reviews
Sales Rank: 37953
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dubbed, Dvd, Subtitled, Widescreen, Ntsc
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), French (Dubbed), Spanish (Dubbed)
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 97 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: WARD82789D
UPC: 012569827899
EAN: 0012569827899
ASIN: B000TUDBFC
Theatrical Release Date: November 29, 1978
Release Date: September 25, 2007
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Studio: Warner Home Video Release Date: 09/25/2007 Run time: 97 minutes
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 I always feel like... somebody's watching meeee... February 19, 2009
James Seger (The Woodlands, TX United States)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I was so excited to see the 'forgotten' John Carpenter film finally getting a DVD release. He's one of my favorite directors. Unfortunately this is one of his weakest films and probably my least favorite.
It's not all bad and has some genuinely tense moments, but they are few and far between. I'm not sure if John Carpenter just wasn't feeling it with this one or if it was due to the constraints of it being a T.V. movie with the constant breaks required for commercials. Whatever it is, the film is a series of peaks and valleys. The pace is off. You just don't get enough of a feeling of building tension. It's funny, because this film was preceded by Assault on Precinct 13 and Halloween and followed by The Fog and all are excellent, suspenseful films.
In this movie there are a number of good scenes. The bits with the laundry room, the park at night, the penthouse, the search of a house and the last fifteen minutes are great. But in between there are plenty of dull spots.
The music was kind of irritating. I wish John Carpenter had gotten to score this one like he does most of his movies. But he didn't and the music is here seems like a swipe of better music from other suspense movies and at times was just inappropriate for the scene. The best part musically was a scene where Leigh is opening a strange package that was synched to Vivaldi's 'Winter'. That part was very well done, but also pointed out how bad the rest of the music was.
Also, Lauren Hutton just didn't seem right for the part. She's a good actress and the part was written well, but the two didn't seem to connect.
One highlight of the movie is Adrienne Barbeau. She is terrific in her part. It's easy to see why J.C. used her in his future movies (well, aside from their marriage). I wish she were in the movie more.
Also, I applaud him for writing in a positive lesbian character. It must have been scandalous for a T.V. movie from 1978. She wasn't stereotypical, never made any 'sinister' passes at our heroine and also wasn't portrayed as the 'magical gay character'. Kudos to John Carpenter.
This movie is worth a rental. But compared to what John Carpenter had done before and would do in the future, this entry was weak.
Club Dead Vacations December 4, 2008
Veritas
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
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 May 30, 2008
David J. Gamache
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
"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 May 16, 2008
P. Black (Fort Lauderdale, FL)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
**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 ! October 25, 2007
O. Van Kooten (Netherlands)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
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
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