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Very well executed

Undescribable Perfection

Best movie ever!

Actress is magnificent and exudes a hypnotic screen presence in this affecting drama.

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.

The movie is scary at the end. I would never watch the end again. Just too creepy. If you can stand it, you should watch the end at least once to catch the horror of the story.But I find the scenes where the wives suddenly start obeying their husbands generally funny. Of course in real life this would be a horror, as it is at the end. But there is something hilarious about people suddenly saying and doing things they would never do before. People just don't do that, at least under normal circumstances like living in an affluent suburb.I see a lesson in the film about human autonomy. Our freedom is about doing our own quirky things, even if they're stupid. As one reviewer mentioned, the Katharine Ross character is actually a rather annoying person in some ways. Her freedom isn't about being good, but about being herself. Of course her sometimes annoying character does not reduce in the least the evil of her creepy husband.

Ira Levin wrote the book. It involves the town of Stepford where a male dominated culture reveals that all the wives are completely under the thumbs of the men, devoting their lives to pleasing them. The predictable turn of events is that a woman who is quite amazed at this gets into the mix. When she tries to befriend these women in a time of liberation, she is astonished at their willingness to act in this way. However, we find out that there's much more to their actions than she supposed. Somehow we have a kind of manipulation of the women, even replacement with androids, that sets the rest of the film. The problem here is that when dealing with human beings, the secrets seem impossible. The men are the ones I see as blowing the lid on this thing. it's an interesting premise, but awfully hard to swallow.

Ira Levin's story of a diabolical plot to turn housewives into robots is made into a mild film by director Bryan Forbes. Katherine Ross moves to a sleepy Connecticut town only to find that the men, who meet every night, are turning their wives into drones who do nothing but serve them & do housework. Oddly, despite the horrific premise, there's nary a thrill in this snail paced film. Ross brings a lot of pepper to her role and she's ably supported by the likes of Peter Masterson, Tina Louise, Nanette Newman and, best of all, Paula Prentiss. Prentiss is very lively as Ross's kooky friend. It's unfortunate that this very sunny film is not scary in the slightest; it's just dull. Owen Roizman's cinematography is terrific but there's not much else to recommend.