The Original Stepford Wives Movie Spawned A Forgotten Horror Franchise

Bryan Forbes’ 1975 psychological thriller “Stepford Wives” is a cautious story for ages. The film has a camping element that just sharpens its satire edge, but when it leans on its scating comment, the patos is genuine. For decades, Ira Levin’s novel “The Stepford Wives” has been collecting a continuous cultural meter, inspiring recent mystery trills like “Don’t worry sweetheart” (which overlap duplicate the original starting point without success or conviction).

Although the story of Forbes is more layered than it initially shows, core criticism is in the systemic subjugation of women through patriarchal practices where they have diminished to non -foreign men with whom they are married. This is due to the extremes of Forbes’ film, and when Joanna Eberhart (Katharine Ross) moves to Stepford with her husband, we can detect the community’s strange social behavior through the eyes of confused skeptic. Joanna immediately notices that women in the community are obsessed with the perfect housewife, while men are more than happy to do a minimum and enjoy the submission of their wives.

The film’s psychological horror aspect is increasing for the end, leading to a rather gloomy end. Although the story is not nearly perfect, it combines Tradwife identity policy with prevailing consumerism in interesting ways. As culturally meaningful as the Forbes movie is, it is less well known that “Stepford Wives” gave birth to three (!) Associated names, forming a horror-franchise, which has still been overshadowed by the original.

The first straight sequel is the 1980s “Stepford’s Wives Revenge”, “ TV TV Horror triller, which takes place 10 years after the events of the original movie. This little story explores the consequences of couples who want to leave Stepford and urges TV reporter Kaye Foster (Sharon Gless) to visit the seemingly idyllic community for research. The immediate signs that something ominous is here are more open here when Kaye notices women’s pop pills several times a day after the siren bllarie through the city speakers. As the plot progresses, Kaye reinforces himself as a sharp, ingenuine protagonist dedicated to the liberation of women trapped in Stepford, even though he learns the terrible truth. This is one of the better markings of the Franchising program, which does not fully support the center of Koso.

Next we have 1986 “Stepford Children”, where the couple moves to Stepford with their children David (Randall Batinkoff) and Mary (Tammy Lauren). David’s and Mary’s father Steven (Don Murray) seems to disturb their relaxation and carefree spirit and are associated with assault on the men’s association to equate them with obedience, skillful robots with little or no self -esteem. Children, even though unknowingly, are the attitudes of the surrounding adults who seem to be obsessed with their children to help them achieve a “perfect” social image. Now this is “Koson” proper follow -up, but it lacks the subtlety of its predecessors and the insurance tells the story that is still committed to the subjects of parental abuse and its effects.

You may have already discovered the theme here, so it should not be surprising that the final entry of this series is called “Stepford husband” (who opens up with a man who will violently kill his wife before suicide). The story tries to turn the original concept on its head by presenting Stepford’s men learned their wives, and the Stepford Man’s Institute of Man’s behavior is responsible for this change. Short writing and undesirable performances aside, this reverse concept of “Stepford’s husbands” falls steadily due to the blatant absence of real life reflection, because even the strongest misague brand cannot compare to the horrifying consequences of violent misogyny that affect the effect of the effect of the violent misogy all in society. This is the lowest transfer of the familiar starting point, and most creatively bankruptcy of three.

Although nothing can destroy the raw effect of the original 1975, these follow -up (except for the third) are decent enough for a one -time clock.