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Meurtre au 43eme étage

Original title: Someone's Watching Me!
  • TV Movie
  • 1978
  • Not Rated
  • 1h 37m
IMDb RATING
6.6/10
6K
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Meurtre au 43eme étage (1978)
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A woman is being watched in her apartment by a stranger, who also calls and torments her. A cat-and-mouse game begins.A woman is being watched in her apartment by a stranger, who also calls and torments her. A cat-and-mouse game begins.A woman is being watched in her apartment by a stranger, who also calls and torments her. A cat-and-mouse game begins.

  • Director
    • John Carpenter
  • Writer
    • John Carpenter
  • Stars
    • Lauren Hutton
    • David Birney
    • Adrienne Barbeau
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  • IMDb RATING
    6.6/10
    6K
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    • Director
      • John Carpenter
    • Writer
      • John Carpenter
    • Stars
      • Lauren Hutton
      • David Birney
      • Adrienne Barbeau
    • 58User reviews
    • 66Critic reviews
  • See production info at IMDbPro
    • Awards
      • 1 nomination total

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    Lauren Hutton
    Lauren Hutton
    • Leigh Michaels
    David Birney
    David Birney
    • Paul Winkless
    Adrienne Barbeau
    Adrienne Barbeau
    • Sophie
    Charles Cyphers
    Charles Cyphers
    • Gary Hunt
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    Len Lesser
    • Burly Man
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    John Mahon
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    James Murtaugh
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    Michael Laurence
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    • Herbert Stiles
    Robert Phalen
    Robert Phalen
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    Robert Snively
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    Jean Le Bouvier
    • Waitress
    James McAlpine
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    Edgar Justice
    • Charlie
    John J. Fox
    • Eddie
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    • Director
      • John Carpenter
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      • John Carpenter
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    Bob-376

    Great!

    An early TV movie by director John Carpenter about Lauren Hutton who's being stalked in her apartment, you know the sort of thing. This is pretty good actually and it still plays well today. Definately one of my favorites, Halloween was made shortly after, I think.
    hal-24

    This movie made me an all time Carpenter fan.

    I never expected that a TV movie like this early work from John "Thrillmaster" Carpenter could be thrilling and excellent as this one was made. Thanks Mr Carpenter. Excellent entertainment and terrific conclusion.
    8Oliver_Lenhardt

    Packed with tension.

    John Carpenter's SOMEONE'S WATCHING ME! is an undisguised homage to REAR WINDOW, with nods to BLACK CHRISTMAS (an avowed favourite of Carpenter's) and the Italian Giallo genre, specifically Argento's DEEP RED. One elaborate scene, wherein the anxious heroine drops a knife through a grate, and then squeezes laboriously into the crawlspace beneath to hide, is a clear riff on giallo scenography.

    The material is stale, but the execution is not. Carpenter's virtuoso use of gliding camera shots, shadow detail, composition, and mise en scene, ratchets up the suspense even during what would otherwise be incidental scenes in another director's hands. On occasion, TV-movie limpness creeps in momentarily, but, in the main, the picture's production is very professionally handled.

    One major irritant is Lauren Hutton's protagonist, Leigh. She is endlessly spunky, constantly talking to herself, always rushing headlong into situations. It's grating right from the start, but as events unfold, her happy-go-lucky ebullience morphs (in the viewers' eyes) into a kind of blithe stupidity. Most thinking people would have closed their curtains, locked their doors, taken the prank calls more seriously, or perhaps moved away (pride be damned), much sooner than did she. Certainly most people wouldn't have walked knowingly into the stalker's trap, as Leigh does at the very end. "Someone's Watching Me" is nerve-wracking enough for one to suspend one's incredulity, and good enough to belong in, or just below, the rarefied sphere of Carpenter's two best, HALLOWEEN and THE THING.
    8ODDBear

    Fantastic homage to the likes of Argento and Hitchcock

    I couldn't believe my luck when I stumbled on to this movie at a local video store in Iceland. It had subtitles and everything. What a find! As many of you know, this is the "lost" John Carpenter movie, and it's nothing short of fantastic. It plays like an homage to the likes of Dario Argento and Alfred Hitchcock, although the Hitchcock influences are more apparent here.

    Lauren Hutton moves into a fancy apartment building and starts receiving mysterious phone calls and presents. And we, as the audience, know that this stalker lives in the building across from hers and that he's watching her every move.

    Although not much actually happens here, the film's gradual buildup to a terrifying finale is nothing short of brilliant, orchestrated by a very fresh John Carpenter at the height of his creativity.

    The cinematography (especially the POV's) makes one think of Dario Argento but the atmosphere (and storyline) reeks of Hitchcock. John Carpenter has admitted to the fact of having been inspired by both.

    I strongly recommend this film. If you can locate it, that is.
    7christopher-underwood

    The final half hour is as good as it gets

    An early John Carpenter film, I had never even heard of and surprisingly effective bearing in mind its 70s TV origins. So rather leisurely at first and I had bit of a problem with Lauren Hutton's character. She has a rather off putting way of 'joking about', or 'wacky' as she refers to it and also is rather blunt in her rebuttals of invitations from the opposite sex. This slightly awkward introduction to a leading lady with some baggage is compounded in the extraordinary moment when she makes the advances in a very 70s bar. but never mind, this soon gets going, everyone does a sterling job and carpenter really comes into his own as the movie progresses. The final half hour is as good as it gets and is pretty faultless. Effective music, varied and compelling camera work and increasingly believable dialogue. Well worth a watch for anyone and required for Carpenter fans who will see much that is further developed in later films.

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    • Trivia
      For more than two decades, the movie was almost better known as the "lost Carpenter film" due to its scarce availability on home video. Contrary to many countries in Europe where the movie actually got released on VHS, there has never been an official VHS release in America. Warner Bros. finally released it on DVD in 2007.
    • Goofs
      The brochure that Leigh finds in the apartment for the "surveillance" microphone, is an AKG D-528 microphone which requires a cabled connection. A wire would have had to be run all the way to her apartment for the microphone to work.
    • Quotes

      Leigh Michaels: [taps Paul's leg] Just testing.

      Paul Winkless: Uh-huh, what are you testing?

      Leigh Michaels: I have strange fears.

      Paul Winkless: Really? What?

      Leigh Michaels: Being raped by dwarves. You could've been sitting up there on stilts, I, I had to check.

    • Connections
      Featured in Rear Window meets 2001 (2024)

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    • Release date
      • November 29, 1978 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Someone's Watching Me!
    • Filming locations
      • Los Angeles, California, USA(Location)
    • Production company
      • Warner Bros. Television
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    • Runtime
      • 1h 37m(97 min)
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • Mono

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