A Horror Classic. It's like if someone took Invasion of the Body Snatchers and set it in the backdrop of a movie like The Swimmer with a hint of Rosemary's Baby. Just really well made all around. The direction is excellent, the commentary on feminism and suburbia is first rate, and it's setting is very memorable. This isn't your typical horror movie. 90% of the time the film doesn't even feel like a horror movie but a drama more than anything. It's colorful, perfect, and a dream. There also is a very low on screen body count as well. Katherine Ross is excellent in this as well and the best thing character wise. The one issue this has for 75% of the runtime it's VERY slow and meandering at times. While we're always focused on Ross, the subject matter tends to bounce around quite a bit. Relationships with the other wives, her husband, the investigation into what's happening, it all feels a bit scattered. But it makes up for it with an ability to make ever single meandering scene not just well directed but having a sense of "something isn't right" even though everything is perfect it seems. It's very simliar to Halloween in that sense. Anyone who is a fan of horror movies, any actors in this, unique Sci-Fi flicks, movies that explore feminism or critiques of suburbia ,or the director should give this a try.

Really effectively eerie and surprisingly dark humor and terrific performance by Katharine Ross.

A well-acted, eerie film with a lot to say about oppressive gender roles.

I went into this genuinely wanting to like it but I found it both cringy and severely overrated.

Some may find this a slow burner. But the film is definitely worth a look. Good acting from the cast.

Some good ideas but never comes together.

It was creepy and good and it how some men treat their wives like possessions

The greatest 01 hour: and 55 minutes ever!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Watched this for the first time the other day and I absolutely loved it! It was so much fun to watch, I went in knowing the plot and outcome and I still thought it was brilliant. From the camera work to the score to the acting I felt everything I was supposed to and fell in love with the characters! I was born in '93 and grew up on a ton of 70's movies so if you're not into "older" movies it will probably come across as cheesy and unbelievable but if you can handle the style of it, it's a must watch!

This is why I love movies from the 70's. They have this genuine and raw feel to them. Ok, the way that he just nonchalantly complimented his new neighbor Ted's wife, something's definitely up. That was weird. I bet that creepy old fuck was drawing her so that they could make a clone of her. I swear that Van Sant chick is an android. She's like malfunctioning at the party lol. That brunette is oddly tall but damn does she got a body. She's looking good. The way the brunette malfunctions when she was in the kitchen trying to make coffee was hilarious. She was spot on, so good. This movie is a big metaphor for men wanting to take away the independence of women so that they can be soulless housewives. The notion that women need to be subservient beings and tend to everything that the husband wants in a perfect robotic manner. Well I say nay! A woman has the same right to be independent and do her thing without having to bend at every whim for her man. With that being said, seeing Katherine Ross with big tits was amazing. Good movie.

In a well-known anecdote, after a special screening of the film for leading voices of the contemporary feminist movement, Betty Friedan, whose The Feminine Mystique helped bring second wave feminism to popular consciousness, lambasted Bryan Forbes' 1975 suburban satire as "a rip-off of the women's movement." Although she never elaborated, Friedan's point seems to be that the movie, rather than didactically critiquing systemic patriarchy in order to raise the political consciousness of its audience, instead makes hay through a caricature of feminist arguments about domesticity. Yet to that end, and what Friedan misses, is how this blend of gothic domestic horror and brooding sci-fi straddles the militant self-seriousness of second wave feminism and (foreseeing) the parodic subversion of third wave feminism. Seen from within that latter paradigm, the film (despite its other cinematic flaws) embodies the automatization of womanhood, anticipating Haraway's cyborg manifesto or Butler's work on the dissidence of drag by identifying with and pushing to the extreme the norms the narrative aims to undermine, not by raising consciousness but by bringing unconscious assumptions to the fore.

The best thrilling sci-fi movie ever made!

from the author of the terrifying 'Rosemary's Baby' comes another adaptation of suburban community terror the 2004 remake is terrible according to many of the reviews I've read and even the filmmakers themselves have distanced themselves from it but this 1975 take on the book by Ira Levin somewhat follows along the line of 'Invasion of the Body Snatchers' with some messed up matrimony involving the male fantasy of the perfect woman Joanna and her husband and her kids move to the quiet little town of Stepford to start fresh almost everything here seems perfect..maybe too perfect to be true Joanna's best friend, Bobbie is there too but slowly they start to discover many of the female population acting very strangely; many of them are dressed up in 1950's attire, their focus is more on the housework and staying at home, and the men themselves are always out every night at a men's-only association club Joanna and her friend begin to question the state of mind of these housewives and their mentality, for many they are perfectly content yet Joanna feels they should have more independent thinking and ambitions of their own of course as you'd expect they shrug it off like it's nothing, something is definitely wrong it's almost as if every woman in Stepford is some sort of mindless, robotic drone equivalent to what a man expects out of 'perfect spouse' the politics in this town seem somewhat archaic as if these ladies have no freedom to do what they want and only to please their husbands you can certainly see the feminist analysis in this kind of story being told not to mention the satire of turning free-thinking women and conforming them into a closed-off society the men don't want these women as sexual objects but just objects to live out their ideal fantasies of what life should be like the movie has 3 different tones going from bright and sunny to mysterious to downright scary it's by the final act things start coming together and boy is it a terrifying reveal to what this town's secret is manipulating these housewives it does make many of us ask don't we all want the perfect spouse at our side; providing for us, never fighting, never asking too much, to be able to tell us we're still beautiful as we get older as well as fulfill our every desire? sure this movie is a slow burner although the last scene may actually scare you finally understanding what makes it horrific in the first place keep in mind, it's not meant to be anti-men or anti-feminist all the movie does is try to uncover the strength a woman still has to assert her own form of thinking and will power and not given into becoming like the rest of a population's mindset like I said, skip the bad remake and give this movie a glance

A creative exploration of sexism in our society

Bluntly satirizes the idealness behind the feminine image of a housewife with a steady, alarming force escalating by psychological character study that frustratingly chills towards dated incompletion of unsatisfying payoff to an enjoyable, well-performed film. (B)

That is the grandma of "Get out!"

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One of those films that has become ingrained in our culture as allegory. Fair share of 70s camp but it's a creepy and enjoyable watch. Fun fact: two of the women in this movie played Ginger Grant from Gilligan's Island. Tina Louise played the role in the initial television series and Judith Baldwin took over the role in the made-for-television movies a decade later.

A truly engaging and different thriller. Leisurly paced and full of bright sunlight and colors untill the last sequence, this is one of the best mind thrillers going. Katherine Ross surprises the viewer with an understated performance that builds as more clues are reveled. Paula Prentiss brings here comidic talents to the off-beat housewife Bobbie and Tina Louise is excellent in her small, but pivotal role as the first wife ro go through a transformation. The misogyny is open and clear. Men are using their power to turn their wives into what they want. Patrick O'Neal as the brains of the operation replies to Kathrine Ross's Joanna queationof "Why?", it is because they can. This is a different thriller/horror movie then many. It may seem slow brcause there is not the bllod and gore of a typical horror film, but we are taken on the journey from Joanna's prepective. We are finding out information as see is, and that is where the tension builds.

Inefficient young workers of Rotten Tomatoes canna even get the picture right on this ORIGINAL Cult Masterpiece...Mucho More Frightening than the silly remake.