Someone's Watching Me!
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Review by emilyrugburn

Someone's Watching Me! 1978

★★★★

Rewatched 18 Jan 2023

Continuing my chronological JC rewatch!

You could tell me you thought this was scarier and more effective than Halloween and I would respect it. It’s a really harrowing depiction of stalking - like, enormous trigger warning if you’ve ever experienced it - and Lauren Hutton gives an incredible performance at being at her absolute wit’s end by the climax of the whole ordeal. It’s a TV movie, but only feels like it once or twice. The music isn’t John’s and it’s very old-fashioned, but it works. And Adrienne Barbeau’s lesbian sidekick is just chef’s kiss (but you know what happens to gay characters in movies like this 😔). A banger but very much a feel-bad watch 🥴

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