Clearly inspired by Hitchcock's Rear Window, I can't decide if it was more homage or ripoff. Maybe both? Though it was a lot better than I expected it to be (a 1970s made-for-TV horror movie?), overall it was pretty forgettable. Lauren Hutton was pretty good, but the film just felt rather flat and uninteresting overall. The main reason to watch this is the novelty of seeing an early, lesser-known John Carpenter movie.

It was done and overlong, with the weird pacing that so many made of TV movies had.

This is very well made considering it is made for TV. John Carpenter's skills shine in this low budget movie. Lauren Hutton is very good in the lead role in this film. Overall I would recommend this film.

It's alright I guess. Nothing to complain but nothing either to really like.

66.

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Hooray! An undiscovered John Carpenter film! Jubilations!!-oh... it's a TV-movie. Feels sorta like a late 70'ies version of an episode of Hitchcock Presents, only it goes on for-ev-urrrrr.

Yeah, there's some nice commentary about how cinema is voyeurism and whatnot but it's kind boring and the protagonist is insufferable.

Carpenter, like Polanski in Frantic, takes Hitchcock's imagery -- here, the reference is the standard of voyeur cinema, Rear Window -- and unpacks it in a tale about interiors, invisible fears and individual vs building (or individual vs city) tensions. The scene in which the victim is on the phone, and the camera repeats a pan movement -- in the second turn, a man walks behind her and finds a way out -- is the key to see the filmmaker's legacy in recent films like Neighbouring Sounds.

Definitely not John Carpenter's best film, but certainly not bad either. It hits all the right marks, which is surprising for a made-for-tv thriller.

A Rear Window ripoff. But it's nice, at least.