BNCA70 I disagree. I didn't think it was bad. It was campy. They got rid of the horror aspect and rebranded it toward a broader audience. It would not have held up as a horror film now due to Hollywood's crazy specific horror genre. I liked it as a kid too. It's a remake for a different audience, and it wasn't made for the fans of the original.
The remake was just meant to be funny , don't get your panties in a bunch. I also loved the original but i liked the remake too i liked the ending of the remake the ending of the original was scary and sad. Sorry spoiler alert.
Mary Kennerley My husband at the time...thought the same thing. Except... I had a husband that “I” would have turned into a robot so it didn’t faze me.
@@brooksequine7621 You're PREsuming everyone you encounter needs it said to them, and by you, who never needs it said to her. We're starting to realize the word for that: Yes, attitude is one. It's the "cute" one. Entitlement is the other. Wild, blank space, guaranteed utter entitlement based on what? Who you are, of course. Strictly based on who you are.
I remember watching this with my family back when I was a kid , decades ago , my mum came out of the kitchen and did the whole ' broken robot thing ! ' 🤣
+SunnyDragonfly I agree. Especially since that theme has aged well and is still chilling. It can be asked of every relationship, parents, children, friends, not just husband and wife. Very few men these days would consider the qualities shown of the actual Stepford Wives to be those of an ideal woman but there is plenty of other things keeping it an interesting topic.
how the husband transplants his wife from her hometown to a place where she knows no one, then ignores her when she doesn't like the place, him slowly becoming more abusive over the course of the film
That's the ONLY version I've seen (N.Kidman) gonna Bookmark this Original NOW. Thanx I'm a Horror Fan NOT Slasher Films......a good Horror 🎥 2 chill my bones 😊 DM
The scene where Joanna runs into her "robot self" is extremely frightening. Imagine walking into your room and finding something that looks exactly like you but it's eyes are pitch black and the minute it sees you it doesn't speak or yells... it just smiles and silently walks towards you.
Morgan Barnes It was filmed in the summer of '74 in Redding, Darien, Norwalk and Westport, Connecticut. Shot in our best friends home in Redding. Great experience.
Ira Levin wrote the book he also wrote "The Boys from Brazil" which by the way was scary in it's own right. The Boys from Brazil is scary because it can really happen . Who knows Dr. Mengele just might have kept Hitler's DNA so that in their future which is now they would be able to clone Hitler. Scary, watch the movie.
In Rosemary's Baby, the audience knows exactly when Guy Woodhouse is recruited to betray Rosemary to the satanists, and that is when he and Roman Castevet are having an unheard conversation in the living room while Minnie Castevet and Rosemary are washing the dinner dishes. However, in The Stepford Wives, I wonder if Walter already knew about the ability of the men's association to robotize their wives, and that is why he and Joanna moved to Stepford in the first place.
atlantic1119 im pretty sure he did~ especially since right when he got there- this band of secretive guys all of a sudden bring this guy in without "vetting". then the first time they come over its with intention to start the process. and the husband knew. so yeah
@@kimroberts7458 that only really proves that Walter was attracted to Carol and from the other examples that we see in the film wanted to move to the suburbs in order to domesticate Joanna. The movie also makes it a point to show that ALL of the men in Stepford are in the men's association. I think each of them are reeled in, tempted by greed, and then pretty much muzzled for life given how complicit they are in the conspiracy.
"I'll just die if I don't get this recipe.... I'll just die if I don't get this recipe .... I'll just die .." - Oopsie. Please pardon my wife; she's broken. I'll send her in for a tune up. LOL
Was watching this on Prime today out of many times. It's actually far more depressing than scary. Imagine a man so weak he is willing to to live and sleep with a soulless robot no matter how beautiful she is. The fate of JoAnna is quite disturbing. 😢😢
Imagine a heartless shrew who cares so little for her husband that THIS is what he dreams of. It is a two-way street Boomerang. Most women who see this only see the "he should be happy with whatever I give him" aspect of marriage. They dismiss the husband's feelings as unimportant. Why most women are angry at the movie's possibility (minus the death thing of course) is that they will now have to compete for their husband's attention. It is much easier just to say, "he should just be happy with what I give him."
@nicola simpkins Actually the ending was designed to give the women's lib (a cia op) a boost in ratings over men. Plot alluded to the masons a real group or Eastern star the women's equivalent.
I must have seen this film at least five times, but only today did I realize what really makes it such a chilling thing to watch. I used to think it was only the rampant sexism we see from all the men -- and that's certainly a large part of it -- but today it occurred to me that Katherine Ross, as Joanna Eberhart, is from the very beginning of the film, as near to perfection as she could possibly be -- she's not just impossibly beautiful, but she's intelligent and charming and talented and perceptive and everything else one could fall in love with, but from the perspective of the men, it's just not enough. These guys don't want a perfect woman, because if they did Joanna would be ideal. They want, instead, the kind of automaton completely under their whimsical control, and of course no real woman could possibly measure up. That they succeed in their evil designs reveals their own lack of real humanity to such a degree that this is a real horror story, and one of the best ones every made. But it is also a cautionary tale.
Way to misapprehend my comment. If one looks for offense, one no doubt can find it. But since you utterly missed it, my point was not that "all men" are guilty of rampant sexism; only the men in the movie under discussion, all of whom are exemplars of, yes, rampant sexism. That's practically the whole point of the film.
Greed, my friend, greed. Bobbie asks Joanna at one point why she did not marry the chemist whom she dated, and after offering a couple of flimsy excuses, Joanna gives herself away by saying she thought Walter (her husband) was going to be the next Perry Mason. Sorry to say it, but these women had no interest in men who were struggling to make a living. All they wanted to do all day was lounge around, not having to go to a job, and complain about how "tough" it was to be a woman. Give me a break.
When Bobbie told Joanna that she was going away on a sudden weekend with her husband, Joanna should have become suspicious. The same thing happened to Charmaine before she "changed".
Not to mention Joanna's husband not putting up a stink about looking after two extra kids and a dog for a whole weekend. (Of course not, he was in on the plot).
@@EilisLornaWalsh :: Joanna was very suspicious and begged Bobbie NOT to go. That's what you get for listening to your spouse over your BFF -- a term, which, of course, did not exist when this film was made or for many years afterward.
This isn’t an anti-men movie at all. The men are also depicted as victims, it’s just so subtle most people miss the signs- -Joanna’s husband, once he realises that the plan involves actually killing his wife and replacing her with a bot, spends the night getting drunk and crying. But it’s too late to back out now because he knows too much and Diz can kill him just as easily as he has the wives killed. -The man Joanna sees crying in his car while being comforted by Diz, probably right after his wife was killed and replaced by a bot. -The man who has the tennis court ripped up to build a pool to fulfill his emotional hole inside that can’t ever be satisfied by anything. The men are crying before and right after the wives get replaced and even after they’re used to the new wife, they feel emotionally unfulfilled. And the wife dies, maybe she can at least find some peace in it. The men however, are stuck in Stepford. They can never leave because they know too much and they can’t kill themselves because Diz doesn’t want his perfect world ruined like that. They’re stuck in miserable emotionally dead lives forever. They never escape the hell they contributed towards creating. It’s also telling that the wives are not killed by any of the men, but by the robots that will replace them. They’re being killed by the system that Diz(metaphor for society) set up. The message of the movie is clear- if you stand by the sidelines and allow an abusive system to flourish because of personal greed, that same system will take you down too.
What I find striking in the ending is that Joanna notices the robot has large breasts. All thru the movie we have seen Joanna going braless, typical in that time period, especially for women involved in the liberation movement, and in the end, she realizes her husband never liked her natural shape. He had the robot designed with big breasts. It is a look that crosses her face briefly when she first sees her robot replacement. "Not only is he having me killed but he has redesigned my body." Sad and thought provoking. We are happy with those we love but what if we found out we have a choice and can change them?
That's so interesting! I have watched Stepford Wives many times and never noticed the change in the body on the robot. I was always focused on the creepy black eyes!
julee reeves oh... I didn't think they were bigger just perfectly perky younger... either way it was insulting, since he's a paunchy baldy a major geek she needed the upgrade not him, LOL.... most men would kill for a wife like her in that ara or this! 😉
June, I have watched this film now many times in 41 years since it was released. I'm 68 and remember the 70s..they were large breasts on Katherine's new body because it was also a plastic chest she had to wear for that scene...and is not insulting..its normal for older men to want the perfect little young wife...its just a film. Not a documentary of the men of that era. And yes, Katherine is pretty even today at 76. And married to that handsome Sam Elliott. (her 5th husband)
Something I realized...here she's the wife and mom but if this was a SLASHER movie she'd be the lead TEENAGER! How young she seems but so much her age at the same time, I love it:)
@@Carly8Corday I keep forgetting to look up her filmography to see what else she's done that might interest me. But seriously, Keira was 17 in that?! She seemed a lot older, like 24 or 25! That reminds me of how Warwick Davis was 17 in Willow and he was playing a dad!
The re-make of this classic was a disaster, a hopeless mess. The same with the remake of The Women. I wish they would leave these great classic films alone.
Won't Joanna's children realize that their mother's attitude and personality has completely changed? What if the daughter starts saying she misses the "old' mom, and starts investigating herself?
No. No. Petercox9 Don't you know that daddy has completely different relationships with their own flesh and blood (daughters)? The wives far outclassed their husbands. The men knew this. If anything this is a warning to not marry a 5 if you are an 8.
Julie W. 😚 Come to think of it, quite right. The best times from childhood were when my tiny Mom politely kicked my brothers and dad out of the house, so that we two could bake and bake and have lots of 'girl' time together. 💖 We would solve the World's woes and map out my future (degree, travel, then get married...or not) Ah! Great memories! And now? I spend time with my adopted daughter doing the same. Occasionally, we invite her toddler daughter to join us! Thanks, Julie, for reminding me of those loving, learning times!
Saw this movie years ago. Forgot what a great horror movie this was/is. Great acting! Great Plot. Awesome acting performance by Katharine Ross. It should be in the top 20 of all-time great horror movies.
@@gaz1tinsley Catherine G -- IT WAS Joanna's heart and soul that did her in. She would have gotten away but her maternal instincts made her go back for her daughters.
@@babyqueen2030 I was about to say the SAME THING! The mark changes the RNA...which in turn, changes the DNA. Makes the person totally different. That person will no longer be able to be Saved...because they will no longer want to. They won't be able to feel or hear The Holy Spirit.
The saddest ending ever. I feel so bad for her, she loved her family. And the fact that the husband moved her there knowing what was going to happen disgusting.
Totally forgot how great this movie was. There are nuanced details of Joanna in the **empty** townhouse and the mannequin scene. Great foreshadowing. How fitting she was a photographer, observing humans. Someone below very intelligently pointed out how her husband got a more voluptuous version of her in the end. How sad her husband didn't stand up for her, and succumbed to the group think of the Men's Association, which successfully convinced him she wasn't good enough the way she was.
I mean, I know something like this could never happen, but books and movies such as The Stepford Wives make me glad that I chose the single life. I know so many married couples who are similarly enslaved (both wives AND husbands), stuck in a dreary and ho-hum lifestyle, putting up fronts and facades of happiness to others, simply because society tells them to find partners and to avoid the fate of "coming home to four walls". I literally only sleep where I live, as I am too busy enjoying life on my OWN terms.
atlantic1119 a sort of fear-based-compliance, entrap, enslavement, can happen to any human of any racial, age, gender, color, ;; & the religious-psychiatric-political-religious-leaders are doing this to all of humanity
@Angelisa Hassan hahaha I laugh....because that's what they ALL say, that's what they all said before they wasted their lives getting caught up in something they don't want.
Just because your married does NOT mean you have to live to serve anyone it's out putting on your 100 to 100 and being there to lift one another up and to be a best friend my husband is all of these things yes we still have our disagreements and arguments but marriage is NOT about what to do because society tells them to. May be the people you know but NOT all people are that way just sayin
That little old lady had no idea how lucky she was by remaining a spinster. (Or, if she was a widow, having her husband die before the robot makers arrived).
This came out when I was about 11. I don't think I saw it in theaters, it's not the kind of movie my parents would approve. Years later, I saw it on broadcast tv, edited and commercialized. Something was missing. Then came the remake, the less said about that, the better. Now that I've seen it as an adult I get how creepy it really is.
+Allison Jae does anyone here realize ITS JUST A FILM............................ these men are married, dead or gay........their just actors........................... its just a silly film without having to be politically correct or meaningful. and I watch it every couple of months for a fun film...
I know that, but I'm just saying this movie is sexist. They should have been looking at themselves and seeing that they were not perfect and shouldn't expect their wives to be.
Allison Jae Actually, the MOVIE is pro-feminist. It's a commentary on how this sort of happens when a wife sublimates her wants and needs to her husband, and is an indictment of men who want women to be "robots."
1970s Horror films were all about moving into houses - and creepy things happening - Deep Secret of Harvest Home, Amnytyville Horror, and quite a few others.
@@happypickle244 It is! The book was HORRID. Jaws is one of a tiny few novels that is put to shame by the movie. That movie was fantastic. The oceanographer helped make it memorable too. In the book, he was positively inhuman and so was the wife.They were repulsive. I came away depressed by people that different from me and everyone I know and every fictional character I've ever thrilled to. Innocently handsome author Peter Benchley was born into the uppermost stratum of society. I wonder if he even knows any actual "people." Without that movie, JAWS would barely have ever even been a book.
It's because this premise does not pack as much of a punch as it once did. Though with all these crazies on teh internet who hate women, maybe it would be good to reboot it up.
Dare you to watch "The Ledge." That is an "ancient" classic in its own right even though released in 2011. It isn't a cozy movie, don't want to mislead anyone on that.
You are right, like at 25:50 the parasol on the grass, in the foreground, the viewer’s gaze lingers on it as the two women walk away, a very good detail, quite photographic
Walter is not a man who showed much feeling toward his wife. If he wasn't barking at her he was asking when the house would begin to sparkle. If he were my husband I'd have said it would sparkle when he picked up a mop and bucket and got to work.
That's the point of the story. What's true love? Nothing to be with the reasons why we use to choose a partner, or the reasons why "we deserve be chosen". Shame on us. If you are chosen for those reasons you think make you deserving (pretty, talented, sexy, useful)... then you are replaceable... That kind of man would better pick a robot. True love is about friendship. Team. Sharing. No romance: love. No slavery: love But always analyze people in a very competitive way (robotic). Well, in that case... This is what we call love...
In fairness, Get Out is really quite different. Often very funny, and it has a (sort-of) happy ending. Plus, that teacup hypnosis scene is truly unique. I can't count the number of times I've seen it parodied in homage, - just last night on Jordan Klepper's Opposition. It's like the twins in The Shining.
Stacy Haviland because it is original. The only similarities is body swapping and mind control. The social issues in get out are different the thrill is different, shit even the out come is different. In a sea of boring basic movies Get on completely deserved to win.
I'm 50yrs old, and I agree...I love the old 70s wagons...Carol's light blue "woody" was great looking....they were the first family affordable SUVs if you think about it.....when gas was cheap, and engines were big....the 70s in general were just great, fun, less stressful, laid-back decade
I completely forgot about the kids that put your groceries in the back seat or the trunk instead of you. Except now if you're elderly or handicapped. Someone will take your cart to the car and put the groceries into the car.
My parents had one. Green with the fake wood siding on it. I loved it in high school. The entire gang would pile in, we'd stop by a liquor store and then we'd go to the local bowling alley, sit in the car, listen to music and get high. Good old days. Course, I'm now a fogey who doesn't even drink beer much less smoke pot anymore.
Love this movie,I remember watching when I was about 10 yrs old and we only had 3 tv channels, it was so weird and yes very chauvinist, but the women get the upper hand in another 70s tv classic "The Dark Secret of Harvest Home"....
@@retroguy9494 lol see its better to be alone than accompanied by someone toxic. Since unfortunately you don't have much family it maybe time to make close friends
@@jazzyjaz9108 HAH! I've been trying that one too for years. I even consulted this top psychologist I know and even she told me that its very difficult for people to make close friends in middle age because by that time, everyone has their close nucleus groups set and are not inclined to let new people inside. She said its an uphill battle. Combine that with the fact that I really don't get along with my own generation and that the things I am interested in bore a lot of people or are too, for the lack of better words I'll say "brainy" for them and it makes it a near impossibility. I'd much rather talk about history or politics or religion or current events than talk about something like a football game (which I find inane) any day.
This is an absolute classic. The whole film is unnerving but it gets flat out bone chilling when Joanna stabs her friend and when she ends up going to the mansion/confronting Diz and her clone. The music really elevates everything too.
I remember when we went to the theater to watch this. I had read the book too. I was only 15 years old. Just as disturbing now as it was back then. It is The perfect misogynistic storyline.
Guys, the whole point of the story is to illuminate the misogynistic, chauvinist ways of the men, taken to a sci-fi extreme. It's supposed to be a cautionary tale for empowered women. I personally know about five men who would, if this type of outlandish opportunity presented itself, jump at the chance to replace their wives with mindless, domesticated sex robots. I find the story fascinating and frighteningly accurate, given the circumstances.
Yes, I agree, and the story, acting, and direction handles it quite well in that context. Take away the androids, and you could've had a great story on that level alone.
Surprise! These female robots, some with built in AI, are already in production in many countries in Asia (China, Japan, etc.) also one company has a domestic sales outlet in the USA, the one doll's name I can quickly recall is named "Harmony," but there are at least three other similar prototype models. The future has arrived. Conduct a google search if you want to learn more. Not making this up.
Exactly. Her husband was basing everything he did on the fact of her unhappiness, seeing it the way I did I guess, as incurable. I come from a biased position because in our family in the '50s, through the '90s when he died, our mother was the monster, our father her appalling victim.
@@Carly8Corday WOW. That's a heavy burden. Try to find some peace. Both genders (I am a right-wing reactionary conservative and only believe in two) can be monstrous.
@@robsieger1886 Both genders definitely can be bad...one isn't better than the other. Yes, each one has their usual negative characteristics, but it mostly depends on the person.
Yet, she knew what she was getting into when she ditched her chemist boy friend in favor of the lawyer. In the movie, Joanna says she thought Walter was the "next Perry Mason". She liked the idea of not having to work at a job (photography was her hobby and pipe dream) while living in relative luxury. No, she did not deserve her gruesome fate, but greed was definitely one of her motivations.
Yes. Why not? Modern men who seem anxious about rape victims being believed and protected status of the rapists going away have to realize this will result in their own daughters suffering. Misogyny is misogyny.
I like this version for the mere fact it came out in 1975 when I was a child. Also the scene with Paula Prentiss becoming a robotic woman and keeps dropping the coffee cup and going back and forth after being stabbed, then opening up the fridge and cupboards is funny!
Ruby Staging some feel threatened by women ;; many feel threatened by children & autistic-people;; the more religious they are the more they hurt bully feel-threatened-by children & autistic people & smart hardworking confident women.
The director, actor and writer Bryan Forbes, was one of the most creative forces in the British film industry of the 1960s, and the Hollywood films he directed included the original version of The Stepford Wives (1974). He wrote with incomparable irony about the bizarre workings of the film industry in his two volumes of autobiography, Notes for a Life (1974) and A Divided Life (1992). The Raging Moon (1971), starring his wife Nanette Newman as a woman paralysed from the waist down who finds love is another film of Forbes. Seems he understood the dark side of movie and government society and was trying to tell us something. He died at 86, survived by Newman and their daughters, Emma and Sarah.
Forbes directed Seance on a Wet Afternoon in 1964 which was a masterpiece. He skilfully built suspense throughout with camera work and an excellent soundtrack.
@Yr done ! Mister You do what? You're a physician who prescribes diazepam to dope up women and turn them into automatrons? If that's what you do, then you're a real POS.
jerico641 Yes she was stunning. As an actress though I find her emotionless at times in some of her films. At the end of this film there was no sense of fear or dread that she was going to be killed or even shock. I just think she comes across too wooden at times.
Men expect us to be like this now,the little perfect woman that does everything in the home and cater to their every needs but I am not that stupid,I have a mind of my own and do what I want when I want (life is just great ) I am sure they made this film to warn us women about men.
This movie was the Women Libbers nightmare. Notice at the end the black couple were arguing about whether to stay in Stefford or not...kind of like the way Joanne was arguing with her husband in the beginning of the movie? 😐
Yep...and it's not looking good for the wife. Most likely the husband will be initiated into the "Stepford Men's Club" soon,if he hasn't been asked to join already.
Not really. The Men's Association pretty much controlled Stepford, and they could easily have done something to prevent the black couple from moving into the town. The ending shows that conspiring men are not limited to one race.
Melanie Haendel I'm not a "woman's libber". But as a human being, who wants to know they're about to be murdered and replaced by a robot?? It's terrifying to me.
Yep. The above-mentioned apparently impending arrival of an African-American couple just goes to show that Stepford was an Equal Opportunity bastion of murderous males.
That was the character in the book named Ruth I think who was a children's book author. She notices how good Joanna looks but won't call her back. She's the next housewife to go after Joanna.
"Tell me about yourself....what does your husband do?"
Classic
The remake was a crime against cinema. This, however, still haunts me. Great film.
BNCA70 I disagree. I didn't think it was bad. It was campy. They got rid of the horror aspect and rebranded it toward a broader audience. It would not have held up as a horror film now due to Hollywood's crazy specific horror genre. I liked it as a kid too. It's a remake for a different audience, and it wasn't made for the fans of the original.
I agree with you the Remake to me was more like a Black Comedy (i was NEVER scared infact i laughed @ Bette Midlers character often during the film.)
Exactly. It would be like getting mad at Weird Al.
🙆🏼♀️LOL great comment
🥇🏆seashells616! Perfectly well said!
PS ❤️ Weird Al HAHAA!!🤣💦😉
The remake was just meant to be funny , don't get your panties in a bunch. I also loved the original but i liked the remake too i liked the ending of the remake the ending of the original was scary and sad. Sorry spoiler alert.
I was 24 and married when this came out. It horrified me especially as my husband thought it was a good movie.
Mary Kennerley still married?!
@@juliareed9823 She can't reply - she's trying a new recipe.
Mary Kennerley My husband at the time...thought the same thing. Except... I had a husband that “I” would have turned into a robot so it didn’t faze me.
Arie l 😂😂😂
@@juliareed9823
Same question. LOL
Mary ?? Your husband doesn't wear a turtleneck everyday does he ?
Again I’m reading comments before watching the movie!!!🤣🤣🤣😂anyone else!!!!
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Before, during, after, or never are all good options.
"You don't look like someone who enjoys making other people happy.", sick burn.
Still a feminist movie straight on the misogynist issue, must have been a real horror at the time it again now infact.
Love that retort ... I may begin using it myself ! ( " You don't look like someone who likes to make other people happy . " )
@@brooksequine7621 You're PREsuming everyone you encounter needs it said to them, and by you, who never needs it said to her. We're starting to realize the word for that: Yes, attitude is one. It's the "cute" one. Entitlement is the other. Wild, blank space, guaranteed utter entitlement based on what? Who you are, of course. Strictly based on who you are.
@@Carly8Corday : Wow ... you really take things and run with them !
And the kicker is she was wrong. 🙂
I remember watching this with my family back when I was a kid , decades ago , my mum came out of the kitchen and did the whole ' broken robot thing ! ' 🤣
LOL. Cool mom!
Brilliant
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Your mum was great
hahaha
Still chilling after all these years. Katherine Ross is one of those ultimate ‘70s actors wow, just personifies it all.
Omg. I loved looking at all the hair and clothing styles from the 70s I had the bell bottoms and short tops😂😂😂
The cars were great too. Age of the station wagon.
Lb all
I love all the clothes and everything too
I much rather prefer the way the women dress AFTER the change. It had a very 1950's feel to it.
I grew up in the 70's the best movies tv shows and music....
The idea that someone you love would want you to become an robot that lives to serve them hurts so much. That is the terrifying part.
+SunnyDragonfly I agree. Especially since that theme has aged well and is still chilling. It can be asked of every relationship, parents, children, friends, not just husband and wife. Very few men these days would consider the qualities shown of the actual Stepford Wives to be those of an ideal woman but there is plenty of other things keeping it an interesting topic.
how the husband transplants his wife from her hometown to a place where she knows no one, then ignores her when she doesn't like the place, him slowly becoming more abusive over the course of the film
His utter betrayl is the part that stuns me.
Oh, please. We could never begin to count the number of women who have double crossed their men.
ur an idiot
The Nicole Kidman version was strictly for laughs. This was pure horror!
It's suppose to be horror.
Dale Howard I actually like the Nicole Kidman one.
Me too and her role in To Die For. She can be darkly funny.
I liked the Nicole Kidman one, too.
That's the ONLY version I've seen (N.Kidman) gonna Bookmark this Original NOW. Thanx I'm a Horror Fan NOT Slasher Films......a good Horror 🎥 2 chill my bones 😊 DM
When she was willing to let another woman have the casserole dish for as long as she wanted we all knew something wasn't right :-)
That’s hilarious Michelle, and so true!
@@tashakomaroff2982 Thank you
Honey they all say that and they never mean it.
That's a big NONO 🤪!!🤣🤣🤣🤭
SO true...probably didn’t even sharpie her name on the bottom!!! 😳
The scene where Joanna runs into her "robot self" is extremely frightening. Imagine walking into your room and finding something that looks exactly like you but it's eyes are pitch black and the minute it sees you it doesn't speak or yells... it just smiles and silently walks towards you.
Doppelgänger (?) welcome to the Uncanny Valley.
I'm watching this because Jordan Peele made so many references to it as one of the influences for Get Out (which was brilliant).
the 70s had great films that were so different and amazing like this one from 1974
Wish I had seen this film in the cinema when it came out. It probably would have changed my life.
Morgan Barnes
It was filmed in the summer of '74 in Redding, Darien, Norwalk and Westport, Connecticut. Shot in our best friends home in Redding. Great experience.
Whoa, that is something!
Dan that's really cool.
Dan wow, I bet that was amazing. So how was the fliming behind the scenes.
I never realized the husband moved them there because his friend told him about it and what they do! I was really young when I watched this.
Me, too l think l was about 13 when l saw this.
Ira Levin wrote the book he also wrote "The Boys from Brazil" which by the way was scary in it's own right. The Boys from Brazil is scary because it can really happen . Who knows Dr. Mengele just might have kept Hitler's DNA so that in their future which is now they would be able to clone Hitler. Scary, watch the movie.
I think when the husband is sitting , drinking , alone in the dark , that's when he first found out about what they do.
@@TheBeezusjones yea something happened that night
In Rosemary's Baby, the audience knows exactly when Guy Woodhouse is recruited to betray Rosemary to the satanists, and that is when he and Roman Castevet are having an unheard conversation in the living room while Minnie Castevet and Rosemary are washing the dinner dishes. However, in The Stepford Wives, I wonder if Walter already knew about the ability of the men's association to robotize their wives, and that is why he and Joanna moved to Stepford in the first place.
atlantic1119 im pretty sure he did~ especially since right when he got there- this band of secretive guys all of a sudden bring this guy in without "vetting". then the first time they come over its with intention to start the process. and the husband knew. so yeah
He knew the night they all came over to the house,
keta Douglas Look at 08:29. " She cooks as good as she looks ,Ted." He knows from the beginning.
Both of those movies really got to me as a young teenager.
@@kimroberts7458 that only really proves that Walter was attracted to Carol and from the other examples that we see in the film wanted to move to the suburbs in order to domesticate Joanna. The movie also makes it a point to show that ALL of the men in Stepford are in the men's association. I think each of them are reeled in, tempted by greed, and then pretty much muzzled for life given how complicit they are in the conspiracy.
I love reading these comments by people who forget this is a movie and get so riled up!
Mark of a good film I guess!
Omg it's a reality american dream of the colonized human robots in other words the American way of life they terrorized and kill for life insurance.
Ah yes, the dismissive sneer of someone who will never be touched by the issues dealt with in the film.
Daughter: "Daddy, I just saw a man carrying a naked lady".
Father: "Well, that's why we're moving to Stepford".
His answer has a double meaning, LOL!!
In plain sight.
He was never a "victim" as some people are painting him. Guys like him know exactly what they're doing.
Well spotted.
This was based on a popular book .the Stepford Wives was the most talked about movie outside of Jaws back in 1975. A classic lost in time
speaking of robots!
"I'll just die if I don't get this recipe.... I'll just die if I don't get this recipe .... I'll just die .." - Oopsie. Please pardon my wife; she's broken. I'll send her in for a tune up. LOL
MegaZiglet 🤣🤣🤣
send her to precision tune
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MegaZiglet 😂😂😂😂😼😼😼
she is broken hahaha
Thanks for proving a good film on CZcams. Good screen size and proper sound.
Was watching this on Prime today out of many times. It's actually far more depressing than scary. Imagine a man so weak he is willing to to live and sleep with a soulless robot no matter how beautiful she is. The fate of JoAnna is quite disturbing. 😢😢
Imagine a heartless shrew who cares so little for her husband that THIS is what he dreams of.
It is a two-way street Boomerang. Most women who see this only see the "he should be happy with whatever I give him" aspect of marriage. They dismiss the husband's feelings as unimportant. Why most women are angry at the movie's possibility (minus the death thing of course) is that they will now have to compete for their husband's attention. It is much easier just to say, "he should just be happy with what I give him."
@@Laceykat66 WTF
@nicola simpkins I agree with you but that was the typical endings of movies int he 1970s. All of them had to end with the evil winning.
@nicola simpkins Actually the ending was designed to give the women's lib (a cia op) a boost in ratings over men. Plot alluded to the masons a real group or Eastern star the women's equivalent.
You people are nuts !
One of the scariest movies ever made!
I must have seen this film at least five times, but only today did I realize what really makes it such a chilling thing to watch. I used to think it was only the rampant sexism we see from all the men -- and that's certainly a large part of it -- but today it occurred to me that Katherine Ross, as Joanna Eberhart, is from the very beginning of the film, as near to perfection as she could possibly be -- she's not just impossibly beautiful, but she's intelligent and charming and talented and perceptive and everything else one could fall in love with, but from the perspective of the men, it's just not enough. These guys don't want a perfect woman, because if they did Joanna would be ideal. They want, instead, the kind of automaton completely under their whimsical control, and of course no real woman could possibly measure up. That they succeed in their evil designs reveals their own lack of real humanity to such a degree that this is a real horror story, and one of the best ones every made.
But it is also a cautionary tale.
Thomas Thompson
Rampant sexism we see from all men? I've never seen any and I'm a woman.
Way to misapprehend my comment. If one looks for offense, one no doubt can find it. But since you utterly missed it, my point was not that "all men" are guilty of rampant sexism; only the men in the movie under discussion, all of whom are exemplars of, yes, rampant sexism. That's practically the whole point of the film.
thomas thompson My bad. I should have read the rest of your comment. :)
Thanks for saying that.
Greed, my friend, greed. Bobbie asks Joanna at one point why she did not marry the chemist whom she dated, and after offering a couple of flimsy excuses, Joanna gives herself away by saying she thought Walter (her husband) was going to be the next Perry Mason. Sorry to say it, but these women had no interest in men who were struggling to make a living. All they wanted to do all day was lounge around, not having to go to a job, and complain about how "tough" it was to be a woman. Give me a break.
When Bobbie told Joanna that she was going away on a sudden weekend with her husband, Joanna should have become suspicious. The same thing happened to Charmaine before she "changed".
Not to mention Joanna's husband not putting up a stink about looking after two extra kids and a dog for a whole weekend. (Of course not, he was in on the plot).
Bobby did say that the weekend trips with her husband were an annual thing, so maybe in that context it seemed less suspicious to her and Joanna?
It's been a while since I read the book, but in that I'm pretty sure she does become suspicious but when she tries to intervene it's too late.
In the book Joanna felt a tinge of unease. Bobby, sadly, doesn't even think twice.
@@EilisLornaWalsh :: Joanna was very suspicious and begged Bobbie NOT to go. That's what you get for listening to your spouse over your BFF -- a term, which, of course, did not exist when this film was made or for many years afterward.
Run from Stepford , RUN
@s r With a wild eyed woman swinging a fire poker.
This was HUGE when it came out. And created the term "Stepford wife"
i have read the book and the movie is unexpectedly close its great. love it
Come on people it's just a movie, with ooodles of nostalgia!! I'm a 70s gal and this really brings back memories!
This isn’t an anti-men movie at all. The men are also depicted as victims, it’s just so subtle most people miss the signs-
-Joanna’s husband, once he realises that the plan involves actually killing his wife and replacing her with a bot, spends the night getting drunk and crying. But it’s too late to back out now because he knows too much and Diz can kill him just as easily as he has the wives killed.
-The man Joanna sees crying in his car while being comforted by Diz, probably right after his wife was killed and replaced by a bot.
-The man who has the tennis court ripped up to build a pool to fulfill his emotional hole inside that can’t ever be satisfied by anything.
The men are crying before and right after the wives get replaced and even after they’re used to the new wife, they feel emotionally unfulfilled. And the wife dies, maybe she can at least find some peace in it. The men however, are stuck in Stepford. They can never leave because they know too much and they can’t kill themselves because Diz doesn’t want his perfect world ruined like that. They’re stuck in miserable emotionally dead lives forever. They never escape the hell they contributed towards creating.
It’s also telling that the wives are not killed by any of the men, but by the robots that will replace them. They’re being killed by the system that Diz(metaphor for society) set up.
The message of the movie is clear- if you stand by the sidelines and allow an abusive system to flourish because of personal greed, that same system will take you down too.
Idk it seems they just are sad at first but then are happy with their fake robowives
Brilliant.
@@thewrongshoes They are experiencing cognative dissonance. They are pretending to be happy. Pretending- even to themselves.
Let's face it, these women married whom they did for their money. From the very beginning, their marriages were absolute shams.
Right on. 1,000.
The comments are so insightful. I see this movie in a frighteningly clearer light today, than I did yesterday. Ty everyone
What I find striking in the ending is that Joanna notices the robot has large breasts. All thru the movie we have seen Joanna going braless, typical in that time period, especially for women involved in the liberation movement, and in the end, she realizes her husband never liked her natural shape. He had the robot designed with big breasts. It is a look that crosses her face briefly when she first sees her robot replacement. "Not only is he having me killed but he has redesigned my body." Sad and thought provoking. We are happy with those we love but what if we found out we have a choice and can change them?
That's so interesting! I have watched Stepford Wives many times and never noticed the change in the body on the robot. I was always focused on the creepy black eyes!
julee reeves oh... I didn't think they were bigger just perfectly perky younger... either way it was insulting, since he's a paunchy baldy a major geek she needed the upgrade not him,
LOL.... most men would kill for a wife like her in that ara or this! 😉
June, I have watched this film now many times in 41 years since it was released. I'm 68 and remember the 70s..they were large breasts on Katherine's new body because it was also a plastic chest she had to wear for that scene...and is not insulting..its normal for older men to want the perfect little young wife...its just a film. Not a documentary of the men of that era. And yes, Katherine is pretty even today at 76. And married to that handsome Sam Elliott. (her 5th husband)
keri caye I can't imagine a fifth husband... the very thought overwhelms me... LOL... well she's beautiful. I still think her husband was icky.
julee reeves... You are absolutely correct & makes the whole thing even creepier & more horrific
katherine ross one of the most underrated beauties of all time
Sam Elliot's woman. Lucky broad.
Something I realized...here she's the wife and mom but if this was a SLASHER movie she'd be the lead TEENAGER! How young she seems but so much her age at the same time, I love it:)
@@jemofthe80s18 She was the Keira Knightly of her time, except less appreciated. Keira Knightly starred in "Pirates" at 17. What a kid.
@@Carly8Corday I keep forgetting to look up her filmography to see what else she's done that might interest me. But seriously, Keira was 17 in that?! She seemed a lot older, like 24 or 25! That reminds me of how Warwick Davis was 17 in Willow and he was playing a dad!
Stunning.. All natural no akward odd looking fake chest just the way God made her
Him: "you ever make it in in front of a log fire?" Her: "not with you!!" Dang. He couldn't handle her power.
You nailed it. Exactly.
@@themaggattack For both women AND men, how does sleeping around with different people translate into power?
Ask a stupid question..😊
I thought the same!
When did she say that
The re-make of this classic was a disaster, a hopeless mess. The same with the remake of The Women. I wish they would leave these great classic films alone.
It had some worthwhile features like the gay man couple.
Are you referring to the 1950's remake or the 21st century remake?
Won't Joanna's children realize that their mother's attitude and personality has completely changed? What if the daughter starts saying she misses the "old' mom, and starts investigating herself?
petercox9 why wait? And you have to kill the original, remember...
joast joast Actually there was a sequel
No. No.
Petercox9
Don't you know that daddy has completely different relationships with their own flesh and blood (daughters)?
The wives far outclassed their husbands. The men knew this. If anything this is a warning to not marry a 5 if you are an 8.
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Probably not. Kids are sometimes horribly egocentric. They'll just love that mommy's making brownies, and brushing their hair, etc.
Julie W. 😚
Come to think of it, quite right. The best times from childhood were when my tiny Mom politely kicked my brothers and dad out of the house, so that we two could bake and bake and have lots of 'girl' time together. 💖 We would solve the World's woes and map out my future (degree, travel, then get married...or not) Ah! Great memories!
And now? I spend time with my adopted daughter doing the same. Occasionally, we invite her toddler daughter to join us!
Thanks, Julie, for reminding me of those loving, learning times!
Saw this movie years ago. Forgot what a great horror movie this was/is. Great acting! Great Plot. Awesome acting performance by Katharine Ross. It should be in the top 20 of all-time great horror movies.
kenwayne96 How is it a horror movie?
@@harrisassment8937 Because the robot replacements kill off the human version.
@@melindaroop1346 lol he missed that and men wonder why women don't feel safe around them..hehe
Creepy. It's the soul that counts, the true person. When you have lost that, you've lost everything.
your soul is the only thing that counts, nothing else can be taken with you !
@@gaz1tinsley Catherine G
-- IT WAS Joanna's heart and soul that did her in. She would have gotten away but her maternal instincts made her go back for her daughters.
Don't take the mark of the beast.
@@babyqueen2030
I was about to say the SAME THING!
The mark changes the RNA...which in turn, changes the DNA. Makes the person totally different. That person will no longer be able to be Saved...because they will no longer want to. They won't be able to feel or hear The Holy Spirit.
@@donnad6677 Interesting. Tell more how do I recognize the markings? Where?
The saddest ending ever. I feel so bad for her, she loved her family. And the fact that the husband moved her there knowing what was going to happen disgusting.
erm... its a script you div
Did he know what was going to happen? Never thought about it that way.
Never trust a man who wears a turtleneck every day
R Kelly😂🤦🏾♂️
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that was the style back then. we all wore them
Or any day!!
Ha ha this comment made me laugh so much, thank you lol xx
"It's just my head. I'm so stupid. It's just my head."
LOL.....Strange they didn't get suspicious....no real woman would say that...
Totally forgot how great this movie was.
There are nuanced details of Joanna in the **empty** townhouse and the mannequin scene. Great foreshadowing. How fitting she was a photographer, observing humans.
Someone below very intelligently pointed out how her husband got a more voluptuous version of her in the end.
How sad her husband didn't stand up for her, and succumbed to the group think of the Men's Association, which successfully convinced him she wasn't good enough the way she was.
I hate that ive only seen the remake and not this one first till now. Such a great classic horror movie! Love the fashion and the music! 💛
I mean, I know something like this could never happen, but books and movies such as The Stepford Wives make me glad that I chose the single life. I know so many married couples who are similarly enslaved (both wives AND husbands), stuck in a dreary and ho-hum lifestyle, putting up fronts and facades of happiness to others, simply because society tells them to find partners and to avoid the fate of "coming home to four walls". I literally only sleep where I live, as I am too busy enjoying life on my OWN terms.
atlantic1119 Good for you! But not all married life is like that. If you don't take the chance to actually live life, well the ho hum is on you😉
You are so right...and look how far we've come with all "peoplekind"... That male female stuff was so backwards....
atlantic1119 a sort of fear-based-compliance, entrap, enslavement, can happen to any human of any racial, age, gender, color, ;; & the religious-psychiatric-political-religious-leaders are doing this to all of humanity
@Angelisa Hassan hahaha I laugh....because that's what they ALL say, that's what they all said before they wasted their lives getting caught up in something they don't want.
Just because your married does NOT mean you have to live to serve anyone it's out putting on your 100 to 100 and being there to lift one another up and to be a best friend my husband is all of these things yes we still have our disagreements and arguments but marriage is NOT about what to do because society tells them to. May be the people you know but NOT all people are that way just sayin
That little old lady had no idea how lucky she was by remaining a spinster. (Or, if she was a widow, having her husband die before the robot makers arrived).
I probably think that the old lady was a widower who never remarried after her husband's death.
single ladies are luckiest and happiest. if they're not brainwashed.
I am a single lady and I am happy and feel free.
I think its possible she was in on it or at least knew about it- face it you had to at least know about it if you lived in the town.
I'd want to be traditional, but not through force. That is the key here. The SW is a slave to her spouse.
I’ve watched this SOOOO many times.
The jackhammer through the tennis court breaks my heart and terrifies me
This came out when I was about 11. I don't think I saw it in theaters, it's not the kind of movie my parents would approve.
Years later, I saw it on broadcast tv, edited and commercialized. Something was missing.
Then came the remake, the less said about that, the better.
Now that I've seen it as an adult I get how creepy it really is.
Same! Tv version was weak! Also being older I appreciate more from an adult perspective
Those men have a lot of nerve.They want perfect wives when they are so seriously flawed themselves.
+Allison Jae does anyone here realize ITS JUST A FILM............................
these men are married, dead or gay........their just actors...........................
its just a silly film without having to be politically correct or meaningful.
and I watch it every couple of months for a fun film...
I know that, but I'm just saying this movie is sexist. They should have been looking at themselves and seeing that they were not perfect and shouldn't expect their wives to be.
Allison Jae Actually, the MOVIE is pro-feminist. It's a commentary on how this sort of happens when a wife sublimates her wants and needs to her husband, and is an indictment of men who want women to be "robots."
+Mark Basnight Still the men won.
Don McCullen As a warning and agreement with women as to how victimized they are... Which I bought in the early 70s but not today.
Watching this film the second time around makes me appreciate it so much more. Katherine Ross and Paula Prentiss were excellent.
Paula Prentiss was seriously underrated.
I LOVE this nostalgia!
Thanks for the upload!
Takes me right back to a time when movies were magic!
1970s Horror films were all about moving into houses - and creepy things happening - Deep Secret of Harvest Home, Amnytyville Horror, and quite a few others.
Poltergeist
@@themaggattack this was an 80s movie
That’s when there was a mass migration to the suburbs.
"When you first see one, they don't appear to be livin'n. They come at with those black eyes. Lifeless eyes, like a doll's eyes."
Let's be real, it's the fisherman/shark hunter that truly makes JAWS the blockbuster that it is.
thats how i feel about yoga instructors
I was hoping a pair of F-14s would splash the mens association
@@happypickle244 It is! The book was HORRID. Jaws is one of a tiny few novels that is put to shame by the movie. That movie was fantastic. The oceanographer helped make it memorable too. In the book, he was positively inhuman and so was the wife.They were repulsive. I came away depressed by people that different from me and everyone I know and every fictional character I've ever thrilled to. Innocently handsome author Peter Benchley was born into the uppermost stratum of society. I wonder if he even knows any actual "people." Without that movie, JAWS would barely have ever even been a book.
I love jaws
This is much darker than the remake. The remake is pretty much a comedy.
But it's to hide the truth of the concept.. Times had changed but really they are still the same
It's because this premise does not pack as much of a punch as it once did. Though with all these crazies on teh internet who hate women, maybe it would be good to reboot it up.
diva1675 which SUCKED, let's remember...lol
KA Suverkrubbe speak for yourself :) This is exactly how abusive men act. Been there.
The remake IS comedy xD It was for the laughs
I never noticed the black couple in the supermarket...arguing about the same thing the other couples did...until the wives were.."changed"
She was next on the list.
or cant they just be a "couple"
She was next. She had two daughters as well, and she was a career novelist.
Yes! That is in the novel.
@@kenmtb no. They're black which is why she said black couple, the fuck is your problem?
What a very creepy movie! Who's here watching in March 2021??
January 2023
this movie genuinely creeps me out
People where more into detail and building up a scene than they are now. It is more about what you don't see that is the most compelling to me.
Dare you to watch "The Ledge." That is an "ancient" classic in its own right even though released in 2011. It isn't a cozy movie, don't want to mislead anyone on that.
You are right, like at 25:50 the parasol on the grass, in the foreground, the viewer’s gaze lingers on it as the two women walk away, a very good detail, quite photographic
Question, How could any man who loves his wife would ever agree to her murder, even if a exact replica was produced, creepy beyond belief.
Have you ever watched Forensic Files? I swear, half the cases are people killing their spouses for the life insurance money!
Cause they're sickos.
The exact point of the movie.
Walter is not a man who showed much feeling toward his wife. If he wasn't barking at her he was asking when the house would begin to sparkle. If he were my husband I'd have said it would sparkle when he picked up a mop and bucket and got to work.
That's the point of the story.
What's true love? Nothing to be with the reasons why we use to choose a partner, or the reasons why "we deserve be chosen". Shame on us.
If you are chosen for those reasons you think make you deserving (pretty, talented, sexy, useful)... then you are replaceable...
That kind of man would better pick a robot.
True love is about friendship. Team. Sharing.
No romance: love.
No slavery: love
But always analyze people in a very competitive way (robotic). Well, in that case... This is what we call love...
Haven't seen this movie since I was a kid . Maybe 40 years ago. Thanks for this channel to have it available for me to see.
IN CASE ANYONE IS WONDERING YES THIS IS THE ORIGINAL GET OUT MOVIE!
jordan peele did say that this film influenced his making of get out
Thank you for saying that! And to think “Get Out” just won “best ORIGINAL Screenplay” makes me sick!
In fairness, Get Out is really quite different. Often very funny, and it has a (sort-of) happy ending. Plus, that teacup hypnosis scene is truly unique. I can't count the number of times I've seen it parodied in homage, - just last night on Jordan Klepper's Opposition. It's like the twins in The Shining.
Stacy Haviland because it is original. The only similarities is body swapping and mind control. The social issues in get out are different the thrill is different, shit even the out come is different. In a sea of boring basic movies Get on completely deserved to win.
I couldn’t help but think of The Stepford Wives and Rosemary’s Baby when seeing Get Out.
Happy 78th birthday, Katherine!
Yikes
80th birthday
Bless Katherine Ross (80th birthday), but I don't want to get old. She has a great looking husband (Sam - forgot his last name - Shepherd?)
@@yessumyessum6624 Elliot! Sam Elliot and his great mustache!!!😘👍
The film was beautifully made. Just look at the cinematography!
One of the greatest horror movies ever made.
I love those huge 1970's Station Wagons !
I'm 50yrs old, and I agree...I love the old 70s wagons...Carol's light blue "woody" was great looking....they were the first family affordable SUVs if you think about it.....when gas was cheap, and engines were big....the 70s in general were just great, fun, less stressful, laid-back decade
I completely forgot about the kids that put your groceries in the back seat or the trunk instead of you. Except now if you're elderly or handicapped. Someone will take your cart to the car and put the groceries into the car.
Me too! My mom had two different kinds in the 70's. One was a baby blue Gran Torino! Being a kid in the 70's was awesome. Truly
So do I. My grandparents always had one when I was a kid.
My parents had one. Green with the fake wood siding on it. I loved it in high school. The entire gang would pile in, we'd stop by a liquor store and then we'd go to the local bowling alley, sit in the car, listen to music and get high. Good old days. Course, I'm now a fogey who doesn't even drink beer much less smoke pot anymore.
Love this movie,I remember watching when I was about 10 yrs old and we only had 3 tv channels, it was so weird and yes very chauvinist, but the women get the upper hand in another 70s tv classic "The Dark Secret of Harvest Home"....
I'd rather be single thank you very much.
As a middle aged bachelor who's family is mostly dead now, I would NOT!
@@retroguy9494 maybe if you find yourself someone toxic, like these men are, you'll appreciate being on your own.
@@jazzyjaz9108 Are you kidding me dude? All I've met for the last 25 years are toxic people. I'm not a bachelor by CHOICE you know!
@@retroguy9494 lol see its better to be alone than accompanied by someone toxic.
Since unfortunately you don't have much family it maybe time to make close friends
@@jazzyjaz9108 HAH! I've been trying that one too for years. I even consulted this top psychologist I know and even she told me that its very difficult for people to make close friends in middle age because by that time, everyone has their close nucleus groups set and are not inclined to let new people inside. She said its an uphill battle. Combine that with the fact that I really don't get along with my own generation and that the things I am interested in bore a lot of people or are too, for the lack of better words I'll say "brainy" for them and it makes it a near impossibility. I'd much rather talk about history or politics or religion or current events than talk about something like a football game (which I find inane) any day.
This movie reminds me of The Truman Show and The Handmaid’s Tale.
I’ve never seen it before yet ‘Stepford Wife’ is part of our lexicon.
Great flick. Thanks for the upload.
I'm back 2 years later to watch it again!
This is an absolute classic. The whole film is unnerving but it gets flat out bone chilling when Joanna stabs her friend and when she ends up going to the mansion/confronting Diz and her clone. The music really elevates everything too.
Really? It looked like the stomach or abdomen to me.
Sorry, dude!
petercox9 it was in the abdomen. Waist high.
She has a beautiful long hair.
I mean just stunning full and thick🥰
People back then were naturally beautiful, not like people today with all the plastic surgery 🙄
Ira Levin is incredible. The ending sequence in the grocery store was brilliant. I'm not sure if it's in the novel, but it was so clever.
The second one was fun to watch, too -- this was truly horrifying, though. It's true that some of the greatest horror came from the 70s.
The husband is such a jerk, it makes you wonder what she saw in him in the first place.
She said she though "he would be the next Perry Mason" (legal genius.).
And he is awful
you know,in the beginning, people show you what they want, to entrap you,then they become their real selves
^^^Found the incel!
Unfortunately, the remake was OUR attempt to make the same movie and we failed.
I remember when we went to the theater to watch this. I had read the book too. I was only 15 years old. Just as disturbing now as it was back then. It is The perfect misogynistic storyline.
This movie is an all time CLASSIC💖💖💖💖💖💖💖.
@susan roberts I want to see that movie. You think I could pull it up on CZcams?
one of my all time favorites. made me sad then and still does. love the score too.
Guys, the whole point of the story is to illuminate the misogynistic, chauvinist ways of the men, taken to a sci-fi extreme. It's supposed to be a cautionary tale for empowered women. I personally know about five men who would, if this type of outlandish opportunity presented itself, jump at the chance to replace their wives with mindless, domesticated sex robots. I find the story fascinating and frighteningly accurate, given the circumstances.
It also highlighted the changes that the feminist movement of those days had made on male/female relationships and roles.
Yes, I agree, and the story, acting, and direction handles it quite well in that context. Take away the androids, and you could've had a great story on that level alone.
I think it's one HELL of a lot more than you think, personally. Lots of guys you'd never suspect go home and beat their wives for this same reason....
Surprise! These female robots, some with built in AI, are already in production in many countries in Asia (China, Japan, etc.) also one company has a domestic sales outlet in the USA, the one doll's name I can quickly recall is named "Harmony," but there are at least three other similar prototype models. The future has arrived. Conduct a google search if you want to learn more. Not making this up.
Do you think women are stupid?
Nearly perfect movie . Congratulations to all involved in it ( the cast , the producers , the writer , the director and all others ) . I loved it !
Joanna was unhappy with him before the move.
Exactly. Her husband was basing everything he did on the fact of her unhappiness, seeing it the way I did I guess, as incurable. I come from a biased position because in our family in the '50s, through the '90s when he died, our mother was the monster, our father her appalling victim.
There was marital tension but she loved him. Did he love her?
@@Carly8Corday WOW. That's a heavy burden. Try to find some peace. Both genders (I am a right-wing reactionary conservative and only believe in two) can be monstrous.
@@robsieger1886 Both genders definitely can be bad...one isn't better than the other. Yes, each one has their usual negative characteristics, but it mostly depends on the person.
Yet, she knew what she was getting into when she ditched her chemist boy friend in favor of the lawyer. In the movie, Joanna says she thought Walter was the "next Perry Mason". She liked the idea of not having to work at a job (photography was her hobby and pipe dream) while living in relative luxury. No, she did not deserve her gruesome fate, but greed was definitely one of her motivations.
Good film. Super wooden acting. Must be a 1970s thing. Thanks to the uploader for giving us this look.
Good picture, good sound, thanks for the upload.
Why do these women always run upstairs, more into the house, instead of running outside🤦🏽♀️
K. Harriz 😂👏🏻👍🏻🇪🇬🙋♀️
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Cause it plays into the misogynist narrative that women are helpless and daft,
@@heartsmyfaceforever8140 never thought of it that way. Lol more like “dumb”
Same reason that detectives in films creep around in the dark instead of putting the light on
thank you for uploading this movie, its so hard to find, you can't get it on DVD
Question: Were the men in Stepford going to let this happen to their daughters as well?
Depends on who they grow up to be.
atlantic1119 Of course. In Stepford, that is the way.
atlantic1119 Watch "The Stepford Children" it answers that question for you!
Look around you at the politicians wives for example
Yes. Why not? Modern men who seem anxious about rape victims being believed and protected status of the rapists going away have to realize this will result in their own daughters suffering. Misogyny is misogyny.
Ira Levin wrote Rosemary's baby and that was one of the scariest films ever.
It's Levin also wrote The Boys from Brazil which was a great movie also. That movie was pretty scary but not in the horror type scary.
Sarena Barr I learned something new thank you
Oh my god, get out and rosemary's baby were the 1st 2 films i thought of!....😊😊😊😊😊😎😎😎
Sarena Barr I loved Rosemary’s Baby and I heard that the building used for the film was where John Lennon was murdered
And the exorcist. I dated the director's son. Lolol.
"I thought we were friends, I thought we were friends."😀🤗
many miss the fact that the villain had retired from Disney...
Many miss the fact that They are the ones being AI'd if I may say it like that
oooooh!!!! Disney!!!! what a rabbit hole!!!!!!
I was 14 when this came out. Many thought of Disney as a joke back then.
Oohhh wow!I didn’t know that!Tjat makes it creepy creeoyy
Not missed here. 😆
I'm a woman but if I had a wife like character Katherine Ross plays I would just thank my lucky stars. She's perfect.
Thanks for uploading, I'll just die if I don't get this recipe 👍
He can't have loved his wife much then
You don't say?
I like this version for the mere fact it came out in 1975 when I was a child. Also the scene with Paula Prentiss becoming a robotic woman and keeps dropping the coffee cup and going back and forth after being stabbed, then opening up the fridge and cupboards is funny!
So much better than the remake.
Just as with most originals and their remakes. Nearly always, the latter are quite dire.
Most remakes suck ...
Always prefer the originals :)
The remake was pure comedy, and so sickeningly typical of the political correctness of the current time.
Yes, Yes Yes!!! Much better.
The remake was one of the worst movies ever made.
I think that that Disney guy would have been a serial killer in today's world. he killed women
That's Pat O' Neal who died 1994. He worked for many years.
Ruby Staging
illness....WOW you are right sorta.
Ruby Staging some feel threatened by women ;; many feel threatened by children & autistic-people;; the more religious they are the more they hurt bully feel-threatened-by children & autistic people & smart hardworking confident women.
Ruby Staging Walt Disney is not evil. And Streep is a hypocrite
Danny Hamilton Walt Disney is not evil. He is not racist. And Streep is a big hypocrite.
The director, actor and writer Bryan Forbes, was one of the most creative forces in the British film industry of the 1960s, and the Hollywood films he directed included the original version of The Stepford Wives (1974).
He wrote with incomparable irony about the bizarre workings of the film industry in his two volumes of autobiography, Notes for a Life (1974) and A Divided Life (1992).
The Raging Moon (1971), starring his wife Nanette Newman as a woman paralysed from the waist down who finds love is another film of Forbes. Seems he understood the dark side of movie and government society and was trying to tell us something.
He died at 86, survived by Newman and their daughters, Emma and Sarah.
Forbes directed Seance on a Wet Afternoon in 1964 which was a masterpiece. He skilfully built suspense throughout with camera work and an excellent soundtrack.
And if men could get away with doing this, they would.
My thought exactly
I'd take a diluted version of it
@@derby1884 And women would find a way to exact revenge for it.
@Yr done ! Mister You do what? You're a physician who prescribes diazepam to dope up women and turn them into automatrons? If that's what you do, then you're a real POS.
@@BlackKettleRanch After they've done the housework, I hope.
I have forgotten how creepy this movie is, I have not seen it in YEARS! Great movie!
My god Katherine Ross is a beautiful, talented woman.
jerico641 Yes she was stunning. As an actress though I find her emotionless at times in some of her films. At the end of this film there was no sense of fear or dread that she was going to be killed or even shock. I just think she comes across too wooden at times.
And Katharine Ross has achieved a long and happy marriage to her fifth husband, the actor Sam Elliott. That's rare in Hollywood - good for her.
And her lush long long hair and big eyes, she actually looks very much like one of the robots
@@susanwaugh3885 I appreciated her as an actress. She seemed to stop acting too soon early in her career imo.
Thanx for uploading this movie.
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Men expect us to be like this now,the little perfect woman that does everything in the home and cater to their every needs but I am not that stupid,I have a mind of my own and do what I want when I want (life is just great ) I am sure they made this film to warn us women about men.
Better than a fat no bathing, nagging she-hulk
This movie was the Women Libbers nightmare. Notice at the end the black couple were arguing about whether to stay in Stefford or not...kind of like the way Joanne was arguing with her husband in the beginning of the movie? 😐
Yep...and it's not looking good for the wife. Most likely the husband will be initiated into the "Stepford Men's Club" soon,if he hasn't been asked to join already.
Not really. The Men's Association pretty much controlled Stepford, and they could easily have done something to prevent the black couple from moving into the town. The ending shows that conspiring men are not limited to one race.
Melanie Haendel I'm not a "woman's libber". But as a human being, who wants to know they're about to be murdered and replaced by a robot?? It's terrifying to me.
Yep. The above-mentioned apparently impending arrival of an African-American couple just goes to show that Stepford was an Equal Opportunity bastion of murderous males.
That was the character in the book named Ruth I think who was a children's book author. She notices how good Joanna looks but won't call her back. She's the next housewife to go after Joanna.