Checking out Carpenter's "Someone's Watching Me!" tonight, and it sparked a memory in me of another tv movie.

- Late '70s Network

- Some sort of precipitating incident for its heroine - possibly preceding the events of the teleplay - which *may* have left her blinded, at least temporarily.

- somebody's spying on her (and I think taunting her) in a ski mask (maybe).

Any clue?

Ok - lemme know if ya need me to vague it up any more for ya! ;)

Isn't that that theatrical flick EYES OF A STRANGER with Jennifer Jason Leigh and the gal from the Love Boat, Lauren Tewes (sp)? I forgot the name, but isn't Leigh blind, and Tewes her sister? that's the only film that seems vaguely related to your description in my memory...


Ahh, I just checked amazon; I guess Leigh was mute, not blind (although my memory was of her blind). So at least I tried!

Apparently, Jennifer Jason Leigh's character is deaf, dumb AND blind in this flick, so it raises the possibility that it might be your feature (although it was rated R, Tewes' presence may have created a TV vibe in your mind...).

Well, I only remember blindness, and I'm pretty sure the memory predates 1981. I definitely saw it at my grandmother's house, on television. It had to have been broadcast on network tv (she only got the basic vhf channels), and it couldn't have been on very late, as I wouldn't have been allowed to be watching television much past primetime at that age, or in that venue.

Oh - and I'm sure I would have recognized Tewes. I didn't watch much of "Love Boat", but had certainly seen it.

In Eyes of a Stranger Jennifer Jason Leigh is blind, deaf and dumb as a result of a childhood rape. She then gets sexually assaulted again and this cures her !!

The main plot point is that Lauren Tewes (Jennfer's sister who is a TV reporter) thinks, correctly, that the sweaty fat guy living in the apartment block opposite is the local psycho killer and starts following him/annoying him thus provoking him trying to kill her and Jenny.

It's a classic piece of early 1980's sleaze which ranks right up there with films like Visiting Hours and Don't Answer the Phone.

How old were you when you saw it? Could it have been the Audrey Hepburn WAIT UNTIL DARK flick, where she's blind and terrorized by Alan Arkin in a ski-mask, I believe? Didn't Mia Farrow do a blind woman in peril flick too, in the early 70s. These were both theatrical, but since no one is coming up with the title, I can only offer what crumbs I have....

There was an episode of Quinn Martin's TALES OF THE UNEXPECTED that had a woman being harrased by a mystery phone caller. She lived in an apartment and was convinced that the caller was watching her from the windows of the apartment block opposite. I don't remember and ski mask or blindness, but the broadcast date is around the right time for your memory.

Nah - very familiar with WAIT, the template for this subgenre, and SEE NO EVIL - which definitely impacted on me as a kid, but a bit later, when I was well into obsessively cataloguing everything I came into contact with, filing it away to pull out for times like this...

The Quinn Martin thing seems like it could be a possibility, though I'm inclined to think it's just another similar entry, as I don't recall any REAR WINDOW-type intrigue, really.

One other vague memory. The heroine may have been a sculptress - *maybe* working on something which could identify the stalker when finished...

Well, then, I officially give up trying to help you! :P

Are you sure the character was blind? I mean, if she was...why was her stalker wearing a ski-mask?

Nope, not *positive*. Definitely afflicted in some way (wheelchair?), and I think whatever it was, it was recent, and perhaps temporary.

I know, not helping much...

Okay...was it an older actress or an ingénue? This could be the difference between Betrayed or The Victim (or whatever falls between)...

ingénue, fer sure.

Sounds a lot like SKETCH ARTIST 2: THE SCULPTRESS, with Jeff Fahey and Sean Young. It involved a blind artist who nonetheless had the best lead on a criminal and Fahey's character was trying to protect her.