PLAY MISTY FOR ME (1971)
Starring Clint Eastwood and Jessica Walter
Eastwood's first and only stab at horror filmmaking, this Carmel-set shocker casts the Man With No Name as a DJ who is stalked by a mad fan (Walter). The gore is muted, but effective, and Walter is incredible as the butcher-knife wielding stalker.
The Carmel locale is gorgeous and it's fun to see Eastwood young, with a groovy, long, 1970s-style hairdo. Unlike so many modern fear pics, this one builds up slowly, to a climax that is one of the freakiest things anyone ever filmed in the 1970s. Eastwood apparently made the movie because he had once dated a woman like this.
It was the original inspiration for "Fatal Attraction," but is much freakier than that film. I saw the climax as a child and I'm still recovering to this day. The Roberta Flack song "The First I Ever Saw Your Face" became a huge hit because it was used in this film.