STALKER is obviously a track whose very title conjures up an immediate and definite image.
The mood of the song is clearly defined from the opening sequence and Alan was adamant that the
film should reflect its atmosphere without degenerating into the macabre.
It featured vocalist Douglas McCarthy and Connie Chiu, a Chinese Albino with violet eyes who has
appeared in several promos before.

THE ORIGINAL TREATMENT:
A man pursues / watches a strange woman in a hotel room. The characters will play parts as if there
was a big plot that hasn't been revealed to us. Possibly a man who has picked up a woman, had an
affair and she now no longer wants to know - his obsessive desire takes over.
There could even be a suggestion that he has or wants to kill her or himself. All the shots will tell us
something about the story but not enough to know how it ends. Key elements could include a phone
off the hook, a hand thumbing through a phone book, neon lights at night, hands on flesh, tube train
at night, empty threatening corridors, peephole and the penetrating eye.

The first part of filming for STALKER involved a hectic trip to New York to capture the aura and
ambience of the city.
The hotel scenes were filmed in London at the now closed 'Clarendon Court Hotel' on the Edgware Road.
The exterior of the Clarendon Court Hotel, though run down and in need of a paint job, is as grand and
as impressive as those Edwardian buildings that flank it, but once inside any similarities cease.

STALKER was shot on super 16mm, film stock designed to give a more cinematic look.