Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

To me, this movie is perfection.

Save your money for something good and enjoyable

Let me be very fair here, this is not the best movie in my opinion. But, this movie is fun, it has purpose and is very enjoyable to watch.

This is often referred to as "the lost Carpenter film", and many of you have probably not even heard of this film. Well now that it have finally been released to DVD, I advice all of you that are either John Carpenter or thriller fans to go out and by or rent this immediately. This is a high quality thriller that is packed with Carpenter great ability to create chills and paranoia. This movie may be ahead of it's time as I've noticed these kinda movies got very popular during the 90's. If you like this you'll probably like movies as "Phonebooth" and such. This is definitely the best thriller of the 70's and has a noticeable Alfred Hitchcock feel to it.I must admit this is far from John Carpenters best movie, but it is far from bad. This was movie the movie he directed right before his biggest success film of all time "Halloween", and if I'm not wrong it was because of this film, that he was chosen specifically to direct it.I give this film a 9/10.

Actually, although all the films mentioned above (REAR WINDOW, DEEP RED etc) may have influenced this movie, the most obvious reference point is the British chiller IF IT'S A MAN, HANG UP!!- the only episode of Brian Clemens' legendary 70s TV series THRILLER that was broadcast in US cinemas as well as on television. It has practically the same plot (with a few more characters and a few more red herrings) and Carpenter's heroine (Lauren Hutton) bears an astonishing resemblance to this production's Carol Lynley.There are differences, and the final few minutes of both films are very unalike indeed, and Hutton is lonely and cautious whereas Lynley's character is promiscuous- but the principle remains intrinsically the same. Carpenter, like Hooper, is a known Anglophile, and it's not the first time these similarities have been noted either- ASSAULT ON PRECINCT 13, while mainly compared to NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD, is also a direct descendant of early Brit crime B-movies such as ESCAPE BY NIGHT and LIFE IN DANGER, while HALLOWEEN takes much of its basis from Peter Collinson's FRIGHT (1972). That doesn't make them any less great as films, of course, but these things should be pointed out. And of course, both he AND Brian Clemens love Hitchcock, as do most people.

Leigh Michaels (Lauren Hutton) moves into a beautiful apartment building in LA. She also gets a new job, makes friends with lesbian coworker Sophie (Adrienne Barbeau) and makes a new boyfriend with charming Paul Winkless (David Birney). But she starts getting threatening phone calls and letters by a man who seems to know her every move. Sophie and Paul try to help her but they can't and it seems he's getting more and more dangerous.A good movie for Capenter that's obviously made for TV--there are blackouts every 20 minutes or so. It's not as good as "Halloween" but how could it be? It's more like Hotchcock's "Rear Window" than anything else. It's well-directed by Carpenter with a few nicely placed scenes that will make you jump. The script is very good too with believable characters and a fairly intricate plot. Also it's unusual that Carpenter got a lesbian character in the movie. There's nothing wrong with that at all--it was just a fairly gutsy move for a 1978 TV movie. Hutton is surprisingly very good in her role. You slowly see her character crumble under the pressure. Barbeau is also excellent in her role. Only Birney is off--he seems a little uncomfortable in his role. Still this is a good suspense film from Carpenter. Well worth catching.

It's John Carpenter's consummate craftsmanship that makes SOMEONE'S WATCHING ME! worth watching. Even on commercial television (which is just that: commercial after commercial after commercial), it came across as somewhat suspenseful. (Given the fact that kids with short attention span disorders can probably blame it all on too much time spent in front of the tube, Carpenter's ability to build suspense between snake oil salesmen endlessly hawking their wares is nothing less than amazing.) Lauren Hutton does a decent job in the lead (she's certainly more appealing a character than Jody Foster as Bernice Goetz in THE BRAVE ONE). Whether on television or the big screen, Carpenter has always managed to do movies that linger fondly in the memory long after the screen has gone dark.