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The Watcher Within

(1983)
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Frank Silver, apartment-bound by severe agoraphobia, notices odd goings-on at the Kabbalah Institute across the street. Silver picks up on the fact that every Friday night a different attractive woman enters the institute. Not only are women forbidden to be in the institute, but Friday night marks the beginning of the Jewish sabbath, when the building is supposed to be empty.

Before long, murdered prostitutes are turning up in the local sewer system and Silver begins urging the police to investigate the institute. The police inadvertently reveal Silver's identity to Joseph Goodman, the mad murdering stowaway in the house of the rabbis.

Goodman kidnaps Silver's lover Karen, forcing Silver to confront his phobia and go after the madman.

Publishers Weekly called The Watcher Within "...A solid and suspenseful thriller."


Genre: Mystery

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