Karry Best movie of this year hands down!

Nonureva Really Surprised!

PodBill Just what I expected

StyleSk8r At first rather annoying in its heavy emphasis on reenactments, this movie ultimately proves fascinating, simply because the complicated, highly dramatic tale it tells still almost defies belief.

TheLittleSongbird Ira Levin's bestseller is still very intriguing, thought-provoking and creepy, with a suspenseful story. It was wholly deserving of a film to do it justice, and this 1975 film does so splendidly. The 2004 re-make however is best avoided, not only was there no point to it but it is an incredibly poor film in its own right even with talented actors on board.'The Stepford Wives' (1975) is the real deal and well worth seeing. Maybe it starts a touch too slow, though generally the deliberately leisurely pacing didn't bother me. While it is well done and clever, with a final third that delivers on the quiet thrills, the twist didn't quite have the impact it could have done due to knowing it beforehand (hard not to with it being a famous one). Otherwise, it is a very good film and anybody who saw the 2004 film first will definitely want to check the 1975 "original" out to get the bad campy taste out of their mouths and instead be intrigued and chilled to the bone.While 'The Stepford Wives' may not be the most visually audacious of films, it is still very slick and atmospheric. Really liked the thriller in sunlight bright colours and the stormy night setting later on was a perfect contrast. The music score doesn't enhance but fits very well.Bryan Forbes directs very thoughtfully, while the script is intelligent and delivers on the suspense, the witty and clever satire and the deliciously macabre humour. The story intrigues and has plenty of suspense and thrills before delivering on the later chills and shocks that still hold up now.All the cast excel as the interesting and sometimes offbeat characters. Katharine Ross shines as the lead, and there are very good performances from Tina Louise Patrick O'Neal. Paula Prentiss has the most colourful character and is on dynamite form playing the character like she knows that is the case.Overall, very good with a lot of impact. It may have been only a moderate success at the time but its now reputation as the cult film favourite is deserved and it is not hard to see why the Stepford concept/term is a fairly popular one in science fiction. 8/10 Bethany Cox

Matt Smitty 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.

inspectors71 The first time I saw The Stepford Wives, it was on ABC, in, I think, the fall of 1975. Since then, I've seen TSW about a half dozen times, and I still am amazed at how unsettling this sci-fi/feminist Gothic can be. I don't think of myself as a feminist--the levels of anger and hostility are a turn-off--but I got the point of the movie. Stepford is a grown-ups' movie because it has the audacity to tell an uncomfortable story, one of possessiveness and mass-murder in a sleepy New England community. The futuristic technology in the movie was dated for a long while, but with the advent of that Scarlett Johansson robot in the news, the end scene in TSW seems eerily prescient. In my childhood, I expected the good guys--or in this case, the heroine--to win. I won't give anything away, but the ending of The Stepford Wives is easy to see coming as an almost senior-citizen, but as a high school senior, I was stunned at how the story ends.Some years ago I read the Ira Levin novel. There is a moment in the book that, if I had been a 17 year old, I would have found incomprehensible. The main character and her husband are drifting away from each other, and, one night, the husband starts masturbating in bed while his wife, who he thinks is asleep, is very much awake. She lays still with her back to him. He is crying while he's manipulating himself, and she's horrified but silent.Here is his wife, 6 inches away from him, but the distance could easily be 6 miles. They're no longer married. She's dead to him. Heavy stuff, dude.Johanna Eberhart's husband, Walter, holds a secret so monstrous, his wife's horror at his self-gratification would quickly vanish if she knew her fate.So, when I sat down to watch the movie again some 10 years ago, I was startled at how deeply disturbing the book was and how the movie almost gets it right. The cast is both acceptable and believable, and my only quibble is that, as things wrap up, The Stepford Wives starts to veer dangerously close to a clichéd mad slasher flick. And that's my only complaint. My favorite moment in the movie is when one of Katherine Ross' friends, I think it was Tina Louise, mocks suburban wifey-wifeness by sneering through cigarette smoke, "Personally, I'd rather not squeeze the goddamned Charmin." That line is my take-away from this well-made, unpleasant, and disturbing little horror flick.

LeonLouisRicci In 1975, while Feminists were Roaring about their new found Freedom there was and still is some Pushback (ever listen to Rush Limbaugh) about a Woman's Place, and some may still Think that they should be put and kept in Their Place. But when this Movie was made it was the beginning of the Rage Against the Male. Everyone by now must know the Punch Line to this Creepy and Relevant Story and that may limit some of the Visceral Reaction to viewing it for the first time Today.But it remains a Classic and rightfully so. It's pace is very Laid-Back and Suburbanite but that Rhythm is never without a Disturbing Edge surrounding this Horrific Satire. The Final Act is Fittingly Unsettling but does seem somewhat Restrained. The Final Scene is Legendary.Overall, the Movie has lost a bit of its Impact but not its Contemplation Factor. Like all Good Sci-Fi, the Story is still being Remade to this Day in one way or another and the Premise is as Thought Provoking as ever. The Cast does a good Job and the Script is very Natural, with Dialog at times so Convincing it seems Ad-Libbed.