Clint Eastwood plays Dave Garver, a radio DJ in southern California. One
night, a woman calls requesting that he "Play Misty for me." Later, he
meets the woman at a bar he goes to often, and they go back to her house
together and make love. The next morning, he leaves, figuring it was
just a one-night stand, but when he gets home, the woman, Evelyn Draper
(Jessica Walter) shows up with groceries and starts to make herself at
home. Dave decides to go with it, and later sees that his old
girlfriend, Tobie Williams (Donna Mills), is back in town, and the two
become close again. But Evelyn won't go away, and continues to follow
Dave everywhere, and starts to get viciously jealous of Tobie. And as
Dave and Tobie's relationship forms, Evelyn becomes angry and violent,
and eventually, murderous, and Dave must find some way to stop her
before she ruins his life, and potentially, kills him.

A very creepy movie. Jessica Walter is beyond convincing as the jealous
psycho lover, and Clint Eastwood proves that he doesn't just do Dirty
Harry movies. Donna Mills is also quite good as the innocent girlfriend.
The movie implies and foreshadows a lot, making everything even scarier.
But the best scene in the whole movie is the knife attack on the maid,
Birdie. That scene competes with the shower scene in "Psycho" as one of
the most shocking in film history. The way the camera darts and swings
around, and Birdie's screams as she struggles and fights to get away,
all add up to one of the scariest scenes I've every seen. The climax is
quite good, if not executed a little too quickly, but what led to it was
shocking enough to overshadow it.

No Roy, I don't date women. lol

Ya know, I've never seen that movie, but from your review of it, I'm
gonna have to now!

I saw that movie one night when I was about 9 and home alone. I went to
walk down the hallway and a car backfired right in front of the
house----I screamed!!!

Other than the fact I don't date women either, I would stay away from
someone like her.

LOL. I really liked the movie and thought Clint Eastwood did real well
in it. It sure was a change from the movies I usually watched him in. I
have seen some thrillers that I haved liked but they can keep those
Freddy and Jason movies, lol. I laughed all through the Exorcist when I
saw it and people thought I was weird in the theater. Isn't it amazing
that some scary movies are good but others just too scary? Scary movies
can be good if you aren't scared but your date is, lol.

A lot of scary movies now go for the gross-out factor but I think a
movie is really scary when it gets your brain working. Then you can
fill in the blanks yourself with other images that are frightening to
you----but that's the writer in me voicing an opinion.

Yeah, like in the movie, "The Shining". Jack Nicholson's line, 'Here's,
Johnny' kind of took me by surprise. I thought, wow, that is different
or when the little kid keeps saying 'redrum' which is murder backwards.
If I remember right in the movie he was trying to get away to a secluded
place to write a book.