Matcollis This Movie Can Only Be Described With One Word.

Stevecorp Don't listen to the negative reviews

SteinMo What a freaking movie. So many twists and turns. Absolutely intense from start to finish.

Ava-Grace Willis Story: It's very simple but honestly that is fine.

TxMike I wasn't much of a Clint Eastwood fan over the years but now am appreciating him more as he has mellowed with age. I found a DVD set of seven of his early movies at my public library and "Play Misty" is one of them.The very beginning has a long aerial shot of the California coastline and towards the end of that shot lingers on one home on the bluffs above the Pacific Ocean. That location is key to the story and especially to the end of the story.Clint Eastwood is disk jockey Dave with a local radio program. Seems just about every day he gets a call with a particular request, "play Misty for me." One day after work he is at his favorite bar and encounters an attractive woman. She is Jessica Walter as Evelyn, we soon find out she is the one who calls with the request. Being a suitably horny single man he takes the bait and they end up in bed together. She seems very nice but when she starts to show up unannounced at his place, with groceries, and asking how he likes his steak cooked, it becomes clear that she is an obsessed fan. Dave finds this annoying at first, then downright dangerous. Then things are complicated by his old girlfriend coming back to town. All in all a worthwhile Clint Eastwood movie.SPOILERS: The ending. As Evelyn's intrusions get more and more worrisome Dave finds that she has gone to the girlfriend's house and tied her up. Dave arrives and in struggling with Evelyn throws a single punch, the only one in the whole movie, she falls through the back plate glass window, over the back porch railing, and down the cliff to her death.

Mr-Fusion "Play Misty for Me" isn't my favorite Eastwood movie, but it's interesting to watch this is a directorial debut. It's largely muted, nothing flashy, but also not inexperienced. The guy had influences and he surely drew on them for his first time out. And his coastal getaway hamlet of Carmel is almost a supporting character. But Jessica Walter owns this thing and that's clear when the film frags in her absence. Up until that ending, it's hard to watch this and not compare it to "Fatal Attraction" (maybe a tad unfavorably), but Eastwood really kicks things up for the big finish; frenzied cutting, heightened stakes, those damn scissors). It's a slow-burn, certainly, but worth it for that final payoff.6/10

Hitchcoc Jessica Walter (whom I always thought was striking) stalks late-night radio host, Clint Eastwood, in his directorial debut. He has that charisma that would appeal to the lonely, forgotten. I have known some jocks and they need to be careful of fans who become too familiar. Jessica is nuts. She is truly psychotic. The strength of this movie is the escalation of her utterly malignant obsession with Eastwood. Of course, he has loved ones and friends; he has a successful career where he must please his bosses. She inveigles herself into every part of his life. If she can't have him, she will destroy him. She is ruining his life. We can only root for this man to rid himself of her, but, of course, easier said than done.

lasttimeisaw Mr. Eastwood's director debut, a nocturnal thriller, viewed in retrospect, is approximate to an amalgam of FATAL ATTRACTION (1987) and MISERY (1990), a radio jockey Dave Garver (Eastwood) in Carmel, California, hooks up with a girl claims to be his groupie, Evelyn Draper (Walter), it is a no-strings-attached fling, at least, in Dave's perspective, but she turns out to be his worst nightmare with her maniac obsession towards him, especially when Dave starts to patch up his romance with his ex-girlfriend Tobie (Mills), she will never let that happen as long as she is in the land of the living.As a slasher with a twisted female psycho as the antagonist, the drawing power is predominantly contingent to Jessica Walter's performance, Evelyn is an out-and-out lunatic on the loose, it takes time and someone's shed blood for Dave to realise that, and obviously, Tobie is on the top of the list as her next victim, Dave has to confront his incubus face-to-face, and ends his peril once for all. Thankfully Walter is a fiery enforcer of chills and derangement, heightens the clinical symptoms of Evelyn's mental disorder - self-absorbing in her own delusional frame, denying the real world with her passive-aggressive fixation, occasionally exploding with polarised mood swings, self- destructive and extremely bloodthirsty - to flesh out an utterly unsympathetic character, still, she is less scarier than Bates in MISERY and less vitriolic than Close in FATAL ATTRACTION.Apart from that, there is really nothing special to cull from this low-budget work aiming for cheap thrill, it is a moderately engaging thriller, the diegesis is awfully predictable and the film itself is not pulpy enough to be worshiped as a cult classic. There are notable adjuncts, like the usage of live footages at the Monterey Jazz Festival and a music video treatment with Dave and Tobie's romantic getaway in the picturesque landscape accompanied by Roberta Flack's soulful THE FIRST TIME EVER I SAW YOUR FACE, which are wholly inconsistent with the film's tenor and plot-wise, they are so irrelevant.We know how Clint Eastwood loves jazz music, and the Erroll Garner's jazz standard "Misty" plays a key role in the story, if only deducing from this movie, one might never guess what a major cinema virtuoso Mr. Eastwood would mature into along with time, alas, it is always helpful to have some trial run to get familiar with a new line of work.