title High Rise. Carpenter was hired by Warner Bros. in 1976 to write a feature script based on a true story about a woman in Chicago. He spent three months writing it and handed it in. Eight months later Warners contacted him saying they wanted to do it as a TV movie and offered Carpenter a chance to direct it. "I thought it was a really, really good idea," said Carpenter. "So I had my first experience with television. And my first union experience. I got into the Director's Guild through that. I had a real good time on it, I have to tell you. I met my wife [Adrienne Barbeau]." Shooting The film was shot in eighteen days. "I had some control over it," said Carpenter. "I was able to shoot only what I wanted, I wouldn't cover it... I just gave them what I wanted and it got okayed." Carpenter worked with Adrienne Barbeau, whom he married in 1979, for the first time when making Someones Watching Me!. Barbeau later starred in The Fog (1980) and had a supporting role in Escape from New York (1981). The television station Leigh Michaels gets a job at is named KJHC. The last three letters are a secret wink to the writer and director's full name: John Howard Carpenter. Filming finished by April 1978. "I think it's the best thing I've done," said Hutton. Carpenter says that two weeks later he started filming Halloween and many of the techniques in Halloween he devised on Someone's Watching Me. Carpenter later said he was "very proud" of the film even though it was not one of his better known works. Reception NBC promoted Someones Watching Me! as a "Tales of the Unexpected special," as to imply that the film was related to the 1977 NBC television series Quinn Martin's Tales of the Unexpected, but Quinn Martin Productions played no role in the making of the film, which was unrelated to the series. Awards Carpenter was nominated for the 1979 Edgar Award of Best Television Feature or Miniseries for the film. Home Media Scream Factory released the film on Blu-ray on August 7, 2018. See also List of American films of 1978 List of horror films of 1978 References External links 1978 horror films 1978 television films 1978 films 1970s horror thriller films American horror television films American horror thriller films 1970s English-language films