Lauren Hutton is among the very best of 1970's Horror Heroines as Leigh Michaels. She is smart, funny, eccentric, completely capable, someone who it is a pleasure to follow around as she moves in, gets a job, hangs out with a co-worker (Adrienne Barbeau!!!), picks up a man, etc., until the constant pressure and stress of sustained electronic sexual harassment and surveillance begins to wear down her very person, until being treated as an object, being put into the position of objecthood by someone claiming the subject position over her, begins to destroy her capacity to live, to be. For Leigh, the irony and the horror is compounded by the fact that in her day job, she directs live TV, she gets the shots, organizes the cameras, she turns Events into Television, and now she is on the receiving end of her life being turned into a reality show for another person to consume at will for their own pleasure. A show that exists for only one person, a show that barely anyone else believes is happening. Someone's Watching Me! is filled with amazing giallo-influenced set-pieces (my favorite being when Leigh explores the Laundry Area of her apartment building) and a beautiful cream/taupe color palette. In so many ways, Someone's Watching Me not only feels alive to the possibilities of paranoid surveillance thrillers reformatted to cope with the horrors of the assumed omniscience and right-to-others at the root of kyriarchy, but it feels liberating in casting off an entire world constructed around the maintenance of those rights. The fact that this liberation still feels Immediate is both a testament to how brilliant Someone's Watching Me! is and how savage the counter-revolution on behalf of the kyriarchy has been over the past 4 decades. Much of the delight of Someone's Watching Me! is seeing early John Carpenter adapted for a TV Network aesthetic and methodology without losing anything, and gaining new forms and possibilities in the process. It is worth noting that the studio where Leigh works is called KJHC for John Howard Carpenter and when she begins receiving letters from a fake travel company mailed by her stalker, the fake travel company's name is D.G. Hill, for Debra Hill.