Captain Voyeur (1969)
- Directed by
- John Carpenter
- Genre
- horror film
- Country
- United States
- Runtime
- 9 min
- Rating
- 5.2 of 10 from 27 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
How it feels
A bored computer worker becomes obsessed with a woman from his job. He follows her home and watches her.
boredobsessivecreepyquietsuspensefullow-keyunsettling
What happens
Captain Voyeur was the first short film by director John Carpenter while a student at USC Cinema. The 7-minute film is about a bored computer worker who becomes fixated on a woman at work and follows her back to her home. The film remained in the USC's Hugh M. Hefner Moving Image Archive until 2011, when it was rediscovered by archivist Dino Everett. The film is notable because it includes several elements that would appear in Carpenter's later horror film, Halloween. Everett says that the similarities include a striking resemblance between the lead actresses. The film was selected in 2011 for preservation by the National Film Preservation Foundation because of its historical significance in showing Carpenter's development as a filmmaker. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
More like this
- Fear No Evil (1969)
- Big Daddy (1969)
- Daughter of the Mind (1969)
- Scream, Baby, Scream (1969)
- The Mad Room (1969)
- Strategy of Terror (1969)
- Nightmare in Wax (1969)
- Honeymoon with a Stranger (1969)
Browse movies and series
press Enter to search by title, your filters still apply · for something by mood, tap Discover
Lists: Korean thrillers worth the evening · Anime films beyond Studio Ghibli · Slow films for a rainy night · Horror that unsettles instead of startling · Series you can finish in a weekend · Nordic crime worth the subtitles · Good films that end in under 90 minutes · Documentaries that play like thrillers
Loading movies…