“Play Misty for Me,” the mysterious seductive caller repeatedly requests to disc jockey lothario Dave Garver (Eastwood) on his late night radio show, and his life is thrown upside down when what begins as a one-night stand spirals into a fatal attraction of deranged proportions. Jessica Walter (most well-known as Lucille from Arrested Development) was Golden Globe-nominated for her role as Dave’s unhinged stalker Evelyn Draper, a woman so consumed with violent obsession that nobody in Dave’s groovy life is safe. Eastwood shot his shocking and remarkable directorial debut in his hometown of Carmel on the beautiful California coast and features on-the-ground footage from the 1970 Monterey Jazz Festival.
“Everything contributes to the accumulation of terror, until even the ordinary, daytime scenes seem to have unspeakable things lurking beneath them.” – Roger Ebert
“Eastwood wrings every ounce of tension from a scenario in which a casual affair turns into a life-threatening mistake, and the film executes a potentially trashy scenario with respect for its audience.” – Keith Phipps, The Dissolve
