Eyes of Laura Mars is a 1978 American neo-noir supernatural horror[3] thriller film directed by Irvin Kershner and starring Faye Dunaway, Tommy Lee Jones, Brad Dourif, René Auberjonois, and Raul Julia.

It follows a New York City fashion photographer (Dunaway) who suddenly develops the clairvoyant ability to witness disturbing serial murders from the point of view of the killer.

Peters commissioned photographer Helmut Newton to provide the images that stand in for Laura Mars' portfolio in the film.

The night before the release of her photography book The Eyes of Mars, Laura has a dream about an assailant entering a woman's apartment, which she observes from the first-person perspective of the intruder.

The following night at the book release party, Laura is notified that her photo editor, Doris, has been found murdered, her eyes gouged with an ice pick.

Shortly thereafter, during a photoshoot in Columbus Circle, Laura has another disturbing vision of a woman being stabbed to death outside her apartment, and stumbles upon the crime scene while passing by on the street.

She later learns that the victim, Elaine, has been romantically involved with her ex-husband Michael, a writer who had been living in San Francisco but returned to New York.

While attending a birthday party for her agent Donald, Laura receives a phone call from a drunken Michael, who is threatening suicide.

[9] Harris planned to make the film independently of the major studios with privately raised finance and Roberta Collins in the lead.

Streisand pulled out of the film, but Columbia were sufficiently enthusiastic about the script to move forward with another actress, and Faye Dunaway was cast.

However, as a condition of this, the studio insisted on the script being rewritten, hiring David Zelag Goodman to undertake the rewrites.

[12] A sequence where the Laura Mars character photographs a group of models against a backdrop of two burning cars was filmed over four days at New York's Columbus Circle.

Mark Iskowitz of The Barbra Streisand Music Guide wrote: "The side one 'Prisoner' track is actually identical to the single and Greatest Hits Volume 2 version.

The website's critics consensus reads, "Eyes of Laura Mars hints at interesting possibilities, but they're frittered away by a predictable story that settles for superficial thrills.

"[18] George Lucas hired director Kershner for The Empire Strikes Back (1980) because he was impressed after seeing a rough cut of the film.