Absolutely Fantastic

Great movie! If you want to be entertained and have a few good laughs, see this movie. The music is also very good,

Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.

The acting in this movie is really good.

Play Misty for Me is horrifying because it feels real. Jessica Walter (Lucille Bluth from Arrested Development) is scarily believable as a psychotic fan of a DJ played by Clint Eastwood. The film suffers from slow, tiresome music montages - a problem in the 70s - but manages to stay suspenseful when it needs to be. This film should strike fear into the hearts of disc jockeys everywhere.

Loved this film when I first saw it and recently re-watched and still blown away. Clint Eastwood is a genius, and Evelyn Draper (Jessica Walter) is the original Fatal Attraction. What an amazing performance by Walter. Tense, psychological thriller. No filthy swearing or flashy CGI computer graphics just great acting and great writing. One of the best. They don't make them like this anymore.

As a guy who spent 42 years in radio, there are a few things I could poke at as far as radio accuracy is concerned, and since I haven't read any of the other IMDb reviews or comments I might be repeating stuff already mentioned elsewhere. First, why don't any of the DJ's wear headphones? When you open the microphone it turns off the speakers (to avoid feedback) and you can't hear what's playing, so what's up with that? Also, In almost every scene in the radio station control room, the VU meters on the board never move. Finally (and this is the coup de gras): How could an overnight DJ on a small market radio station ever afford to own or rent an ocean side villa overlooking the Pacific? Factually Dave Garver (Clint Eastwood) should be living in a trailer park or low-rent apartment complex on his salary. Now, the good stuff... This is Clint Eastwood's directorial debut and he excelled. This film's plot is basically "Fatal Attraction" 15 years before Douglas and Close struck gold in 1987. This nearly out-Hitchcocks Hitchcock! The viewer is slowly sucked in as the tension builds until nuclear war breaks out. Shot entirely on location in Carmel California, the cast is flawless with Jessica Walter co-staring as the girl with the fatal attraction for Dave Garber, a DJ at KRML. Donna Mills also stars as Dave's ex-girlfriend who's sole purpose is to complicate things. A great original soundtrack, plus Roberta Flack's "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face", which would go on to hit #1 on the Hot 100 5 months later as a direct result of exposure in this film. This film has gone down in the annals as one of the greatest thrillers ever, and a film that struck fears in the heart of disc jockey's everywhere. "Play Misty For Me.. And not Ray Steven's Version"!

"Play Misty for Me" isn't my favorite Eastwood movie, but it's interesting to watch this is a directorial debut. It's largely muted, nothing flashy, but also not inexperienced. The guy had influences and he surely drew on them for his first time out. And his coastal getaway hamlet of Carmel is almost a supporting character. But Jessica Walter owns this thing and that's clear when the film frags in her absence. Up until that ending, it's hard to watch this and not compare it to "Fatal Attraction" (maybe a tad unfavorably), but Eastwood really kicks things up for the big finish; frenzied cutting, heightened stakes, those damn scissors). It's a slow-burn, certainly, but worth it for that final payoff.6/10