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.

OH yea this the boring film of robot women - I refreshed my memory now on which film it was. I was getting the title of this film mixed with another 70's horror film "Hungry Wives" aka "Season of the Witch" (1972).This film does have a strong feminist message of "men only want obedient wives". I was true for it's time era... there were women still feeling oppressed by their husbands but not all men of that time era was feeling that way. It was 1975 when the film came out - almost to late for a film like this to show up but, again, there were a few men of the time era still wanting obedient wives over equal partners. There are still men out there wanting a woman to obey there every word - in the older crowds and I know because I'm in that crowd. Dating at my age is a pain because of it. The younger crowds may not have that problem today because they grew up in a different time era.Anyway, the way this film plays out is long and boring. I'm still not a fan of the film.2/10

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.

The film charged, indirectly, to the invasion of technology and chemicals to be creating new -adaptables- human beings. This was thought in 1975. Today -2015- the discussion is virtually closed : the technological dictatorship and large laboratories already have created a new customizable humanity. Not only that discussion is closed: also the "liberating weapon" -embodied in the film by the intervention of a psychoanalyst- is prohibited (no university in the world has courses on Freudian psychoanalysis). Unfortunately, the film ends poorly, avoiding giving these ideas to the public.I wonder if the director Bryan Forbes or the film's producers were afraid to express these ideas clearly. Anyway this is the best version of the three that have been made (not even worth mentioning "The Stepford Children" ... a horrific stupidity).