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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.
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John J. Fox
- Eddie
- (as John Fox)
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- TriviaFor 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.
- GoofsThe 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.
- ConnectionsReferenced in Fear on Film: Inside 'the Fog' (2002)
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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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