SOMEONE’S WATCHING ME! (1978) – Episode 251 – Decades of Horror 1970s
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Release Date: 10/08/2025
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info_outline“I’ll find you. I don’t give up. Sweet dreams, Elizabeth.” Somehow, it doesn’t seem like Elizabeth’s sweet dreams are his goal. Join your faithful Grue Crew – Doc Rotten, Bill Mulligan, Chad Hunt, and Jeff Mohr – as they take in another classy TV movie from the 1970s, John Carpenter’s Someone’s Watching Me! (1978).
Decades of Horror 1970s
Episode 251 – Someone’s Watching Me! (1978)
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Synopsis: A woman is being watched in her apartment by a stranger, who also calls and torments her. A cat-and-mouse game begins.
- Writer/Director: John Carpenter
- Composer: Harry Sukman
- Cinematographer: Robert B. Hauser (director of photography) (credited as Robert Hauser)
- Selected Cast:
- Lauren Hutton as Leigh Michaels
- David Birney as Paul Winkless
- Adrienne Barbeau as Sophie
- Charles Cyphers as Gary Hunt
- Grainger Hines as Steve
- Len Lesser as Burly Man
- John Mahon as Frimsin
- James Murtaugh as Leone
- J. Jay Saunders as Police Inspector
- Michael Laurence as TV Announcer
- George Skaff as Herbert Stiles
- Robert Phalen as Wayne
- Robert Snively as Groves
- Jean Le Bouvier as Waitress
- James McAlpine as Slick Man
- Edgar Justice as Charlie
- John J. Fox as Eddie (credited as John Fox)
Someone’s Watching Me! (1978), a TV-movie written and directed by John Carpenter, is a worthy predecessor to Halloween (1978). Although it aired on NBC one month after the premiere of Halloween, it was filmed immediately before Halloween. The core cast (Lauren Hutton, Adrienne Barbeau, David Birney), Carpenter’s script and direction, and the cinematography of Robert D. Hauser make Someone’s Watching Me! a film to seek out. It’s an obvious proving ground for many of the attributes we’ve come to expect from a Carpenter film, many of which he uses in Halloween. If you haven’t seen it, the Grue Crew gives it a hearty recommendation.
At the time of this writing, Someone’s Watching Me! (1978) is available to stream from Tubi, as well as several PPV options. The film is also available on physical media as a Blu-ray formatted disc from SHOUT! FACTORY.
Gruesome Magazine’s Decades of Horror 1970s is part of the Decades of Horror two-week rotation with The Classic Era and the 1980s. In two weeks, the next ‘70s episode, chosen by Doc, will be The Dead of Night (1977), a TV-movie anthology written by Richard Matheson, directed by Dan Curtis, and featuring Ed Begley Jr., Patrick Macnee, Anjanette Comer, Elisha Cook Jr., Horst Buchholz, Lee Montgomery, and Joan Hackett. Shades of Trilogy of Terror!
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