Jacob's 31 Days of Halloween - Day 22: The Stepford Wives

Jacob's 31 Days of Halloween - Day 22: The Stepford Wives

Probably the scariest movie I've seen this month so far, Jordan Peele called this one of his biggest influences for Get Out and it's easy to see why.

In the same vain as other classic 70's horror films like Rosemary's Baby and Don't Look Now (or modern greats such as Get Out and Hereditary), The Stepford Wives is almost entirely setup, which is what makes so unsettling, and the ending so terrifying.

For the first half of the movie almost nothing seems to really be wrong. The main character's husband is part of a terrible men's social club and the other ladies in the neighborhood are strangely boring, but she makes a friend and still mostly lives an average life. It's not until nearly an hour into the movie that things start to really get suspicious, and the last thirty minutes or so for it to start really getting scary.

I've never seen the Nicole Kidman remake so I can't speak to it, but it seems a bit unnecessary considering this movie was made so well the first time. The only issue I can really think of is that they name a character "Raymond Chandler", which is a very confusing thing to do.

I'm not gonna talk about any spoilers here. You just gotta see it for yourself, and remember to be very patient. It's worth it.