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The 'victim' living in an expensive apartment block in a big city doesn't have drapes (curtains/blinds) in her apartment (until 30 minutes into the movie when she unsuccessfully tries to staple bedsheets over the windows) and chooses to walk around in a thong at night...give us a break! The blond bimbo boss with a heart of gold flashes her eyes at the Mick Jagger clone too often and the magazine reading security guard with the short tie and big hat is a parody of a parody. The other blond bimbo who only styles his hair when he goes outside is just TOO obvious. If you like: sideburns that don't reach the wig; armpit hair; guitar solo accompaniment to soft porn; breasts real and depicted in wall hangings/sculpture AND women with big feet and short trousers you will love this movie.

***SPOILERS*** Young and pretty magazine illustrator Celeste, Shannen Doherty, is stalked throughout the movie "Nightlight" by this shadowy and threatening phone caller who seems to know every move that she makes.

It soon becomes obvious to Celeste that the person calling her lives across he street from her apartment building and tries to catch him in the act by spying, with a telescope, on him herself. With the help of the buildings-where the caller supposedly resides- doorman Derrek, Sean Tucker, Celeste finds in his apartment not only a telescope but a number of photos of herself, mostly scantly dressed, that the suspect David Jacobsen, Charles Edwin Powell, took of her with a telephoto lens.

As it turns out David, who was arrested by the police, did have a large porno collection of DVD's and video tapes, which wasn't a crime, but swore that the photo's of Celeste found in his apartment weren't his. Later with David behind bars the caller continued to hearses Celeste proving that David, as he said all along, was innocent of the charges against him. Things got even more bizarre when Celeste's boyfriend, whom she earlier dumped, out of work actor Brent, Michal Francoeur, stating showing up around Celeste's apartment dressed in a jogging suit, with a hood, in order to protect her from her stalker. As it later turned out Brent needed Celeste, not the other way around, to not only protect him but save his life.

Nothing really surprising her with both Canadian cities Montreal and Quebec subbing for New York City with Celeste's stalker, and threatening caller, being so obvious that he stuck out like a sore thumb before he even reveled himself. The movie's ending was a bit too contrived in that the so careful stalker, who had since graduated from just being an unwanted caller, completely blew his cover by coming out in the open and getting his hands on an unsuspecting Celeste.

***SPOILERS***Not that surprising of an ending with the threatening phone caller and now kidnapper, of not only Celeste but her pet parrot Kiddy, coming out of the shadows and surprising almost no one but the very naive Celeste to who he really is. We get this big speech, in the phone calling psycho trying to explain his off-the-wall actions, from the deranged phone caller himself, in person not on the telephone. The guy goes on and on in how he's looked down upon by the rich and famous and treated like dirt by them and this, what he's doing to Celeste, is payback time! This in his unstable and warped mind is the reason that he made Celeste's life a living hell on earth! What I couldn't quite understand is why he picked on a working girl, who's having trouble paying her rent, like Celeste who didn't quite fit into that category?

Without the magic of Hitchcock, this is a "Rear Window"-style film about a perverted character spying upon another in a posh New York apartment building. The suspense is decent as the main character Celeste attempts to discover who is her nemesis.

Celeste is a woman from Ohio, who has come to the big city to work for her friend Tasha. Brent is an actor who has started a romantic relationship with Celeste. But their arguments have led Celeste to move out and take time away from Brent. But her new abode leads to a living nightmare with the perpetrator who has disrupted her life.

"View of Terror" is a by-the-numbers mystery that keeps the audience guessing about the identity of the voyeur. A number of suspect begins to emerge from a balanced set of characters: the sleazy apartment manager named Glenn Moser, Celeste's sultry friend Tasha, the extroverted neighbor David Jacobsen, a non-descript security guard named Derrick, and Justine Jameson, who left her job in a nearby flower shop because she was harassed by the deranged voyeur, who eventually killed her boyfriend.

As the tension builds, the list of possible suspects is narrowed down to the inevitable. It will then be up to Celeste to defeat the forces of evil due to the lack of support from an incompetent police force that spends unlimited time in interviews with Celeste and virtually no time in investigation.

This was a true example of just how talented Shannen Doherty really is, her performance was astonishing and you really felt for her character in this movie, you could almost feel the fear and panic she felt, if you are a collector of her films this is a must to have. Even though this movie came out in 2003 is shows just how important certain subjects are to the Lifetime Network, this is by far one of the best movies I have seen in a long time, the main subject and its message on the seriousness on Stalking was really well represented in this movie and left you to wonder how far the justice system has come in the three years since this movie was made in correcting the issue.