“More than four decades later, the film stands as a creepy gender study that cleverly explores woman’s role in the home.”
Joanna Eberhart (Katharine Ross) relocates from Manhattan to the quiet Connecticut town of Stepford with her husband (Peter Masterson) and their two children. The town seems perfect - maybe a little too perfect. There's something not quite right with the women: they're vapid, unfathomably devoted to housework and completely subservient to their husbands. And Joanna soon makes a terrifying discovery… Adapted from Ira 'Rosemary's Baby' Levin's novel of the same name, The Stepford Wives is a satirical and psychological horror that continues to influence filmmakers today (Jordan Peele’s brilliant 2017 horror, Get Out, being one of the most recent examples).
