Wonderful Movie

To me, this movie is perfection.

Fun premise, good actors, bad writing. This film seemed to have potential at the beginning but it quickly devolves into a trite action film. Ultimately it's very boring.

Although I seem to have had higher expectations than I thought, the movie is super entertaining.

This movie is like a decent lifetime movie. It isn't really horror, more like a hitchcock style of horror or mystery. A woman and man basically move to a town and at the end of the movie discover that all of the wives have been turned into robots. Thats literally all there is to the storyline, a very basic and simple storyline. The movie is also fairly simple but what carries it along is the dialogue, it is feminine and has an ASMR quality.. Not a bad movie.

Based on the novel of the same name by Ira Levin, The Stepford Wives film begins when Joanna Eberhart (Katherine Ross) moves with her husband and children from New York City to the small village of Stepford.Joanna finds that nearly all of the wives in Stepford are placid drones whose only ambition is cooking and cleaning. The Stepford Wives is very much a 1970's film with overtones of environmental pollution,powerful corporate conspiracies,sexuality, and of course feminist dogma.I disagree with the heavy-handed feminist message of the film which is that most men would prefer their wives to be obedient maids rather then equal partners.There are a few good moments in The Stepford Wives though. Tina Louise does very well with a small role and it's hard not to feel pity for her when she confesses that her husband never really loved her.

Okay, let's just get the 'remake' starring Nicole Kidman and that other guy out of the way – it's rubbish. Ignore it. Yes, the seventies Stepford Wives may be just a little bit dated (play 'spot the flared trousers etc), but, if you're serious about horror, then there's no comparison.If you don't know... a family move to the quiet, secluded little American town of Stepford where the man of the family joins the (secretive) 'Men's Association,' leaving the woman of the family to make friends with some of the most submissive and prim women ever. Coincidence, or something darker afoot? It's something darker, but then as it's a horror film, you probably could guess that anyway.On the off chance you haven't seen 'The Stepford Wives' I won't say too much about the plot. You'll only get the one chance to see it without knowing what happens, so I won't spoil it for you. Just know that it is a masterpiece of 'understated' horror. It doesn't need 'torture p0rn' or anything gruesome and bl00dy to scare. It's just scary in a whole different way.If I had to pick one gripe with the film, I'd say the editing is a bit choppy. Some scenes seen to cut or fade into another a bit randomly. Still, it doesn't take away from the film too much.Also, while you ignore Nicole Kidman's remake, it's probably best to ignore all the 'Stepford sequels' – none of them are up to the original.

I do miss the satirical cheek of Ira Levin's novel, but William Goldman's script for "The Stepford Wives" works pretty well as a straight psychological horror movie. The idyllic setting of Stepford, CT gives way to paranoia and despair as the town's wives -one by one- become automatons of domesticity, spouting TV commercial bromides about household products. Beautiful and subservient. And what this movie does well is ratchet up the creepy, especially at film's end.But the movie takes it sweet time getting to that unnerving end (damn, those black shark eyes!), and the path there to is subdued to say the least. "The Stepford Wives" leaves its mark, but I don't feel the need to see it again in the near future.6/10