Someone's Watching Me! (1978)

[MrMidwest]

Posted: 5/11/12 at 3:20pm

A 1978 made for tv suspense thriller directed by John Carpenter.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zlRgZIwk4Dg

[tazber]

Posted: 5/11/12 at 3:31pm

I saw this when it came packaged in a box set a few years ago. Never knew it was made for TV.

[Mister Matt]

Posted: 5/11/12 at 3:33pm

Lauren Hutton and Adrienne Barbeau. Now that is some 70s porn worth watching!

[Borstalboy]

Posted: 5/11/12 at 7:04pm

Missed this one.

Didn't miss STRANGER IN THIS HOUSE with Linda Blair, directed by Wes Craven, adapted from the Lois Duncan YA novel SUMMER OF FEAR.

And one about teenage hitchhiking starring Charlene Tilton that had a scary car that freaked my little ass out!


STRANGER IN OUR HOUSE morsel

Updated On: 5/11/12 at 07:04 PM

[Playbilly]

Posted: 5/14/12 at 11:04pm

Before he struck it big with Halloween. Ever see The Screaming Woman? (original, not Drew Barrymore gaggy remake).

Those old TV movies of the 70s were great.

[EricMontreal22]

Posted: 5/15/12 at 12:24am

Wes Craven (like Carpenter for that matter) is SUCH an amazingly uneven director from brilliant to crap, but I always found it odd that he did a TV movie based on a Lois Duncan movie after having only two very underground hits with Last House on the Left and Hills Have Eyes though I know he was often through the 80s a director for hire-- I wonder if Lois Duncan was as upset with it as she was with the slasher movie movie very loosely based on Lois Duncan's I Know What I Did Last Summer which she was so vehemont about for warping her story (fair enough after her child's brutal murder I suppose).

Thanks for both links--I've wanted to see clips from both of them for a long time. They really made some great and even scary TV horror movies in the 70s--as the awful Del Toro produced remake of Don't Be Afraid of the Dark proved this past year.

And speaking of Wes Craven and some of his crappy movies, while Swamp Thing took Alan Moore's great horror comic and turned it into crap, his Paul Sorvino tv movie thriller Chiller is deadly dull and by the numbers, and Deadly Friend an odd mix of teenaged-best-robot-friend comedy/bad horror that apparently was taken away from him.

But nothing is as WTF as the tv horror film he did with Susan Lucci as a country club manager who's the devil, Invitation To Hell. Sheer Brilliance http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LNfvLtfjfhY is the full movie, and a classic scene is here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YwENxiQ_ADA

[MrMidwest]

Posted: 5/15/12 at 9:37am

Well, we might as well bust out The Dark Secret of Harvest Home with Bette Davis, too.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_fJNfAIrBY

[MrMidwest]

Posted: 5/22/12 at 1:12pm

Anybody remember I'm Dangerous Tonight, a 1990 made for USA network horror movie starring Madchen Amick, Anthony Perkins, and Dee Wallace Stone? It was directed by Tobe Hooper. It's pretty decent for what it is.
trailer

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 5/24/12 at 12:00pm

So this isn't a thread about the Rockwell song?

[MrMidwest]

Posted: 5/24/12 at 1:41pm

When Michael Calls (aka Shattered Silence) with Elizabeth Ashley and a 28 year old Michael Douglas:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_VdXtAjqD0

[MrMidwest]

Posted: 8/19/12 at 2:00pm

I'm Dangerous Tonight (1990) - Madchen Amick, Anthony Perkins