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The Stepford Wives is a 2004 comedy science fiction horror film, directed by Frank Oz, starring Nicole Kidman, Matthew Broderick and Bette Midler.
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60 of 210 · most liked firstBack in the 70s, a movie like THE STEPFORD WIVES was considered pure satire. At least, for those of us who could have, you know, social relationships. I never imagined that someone saw that movie and said, “That’s it! Let’s have THAT.”
negative · AI labelView post →Fifty years ago, the dystopic film, The Stepford Wives, imagined suburban white men swapping their spouses for robot trad wives terrified viewers. Now, it watches like a playbook for these times. @nberlat.bsky.social for us today. www.damemagazine.com/2025/02/19/p...
neutral · AI labelView post →Born 14 Dec 1948, actress Dee Wallace. She is best known for her role as Mary Taylor, the mother in the 1982 blockbuster film E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial. She also starred in several horror films, including The Stepford Wives, The Hills Have Eyes, The Howling, Cujo, Critters & Halloween. #DeeWallace
neutral · AI labelView post →Dolls is a Lilly Wachowski produced sci-fi thriller with an all-trans-women cast. cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/5710134 > >A new sci-fi thriller short film, with Matrix co-director Lilly Wachowski serving as executive producer, features an all-transgender-women cast. > > >The 18-minute film, Dolls, marks the directorial debut of trans filmmaker Geena Rocero, and the cast includes Yên Sen, Arewà Basit, Macy Rodman and Vas Eli, as well as the director herself. > > >Described as…
neutral · AI labelView post →Dolls is a Lilly Wachowski produced sci-fi thriller with an all-trans-women cast. >A new sci-fi thriller short film, with Matrix co-director Lilly Wachowski serving as executive producer, features an all-transgender-women cast. > >The 18-minute film, Dolls, marks the directorial debut of trans filmmaker Geena Rocero, and the cast includes Yên Sen, Arewà Basit, Macy Rodman and Vas Eli, as well as the director herself. > >Described as a trans-coded take on 70s cult classic The Stepford Wives,…
neutral · AI labelView post →Books to film 📚=🎞️ The Stepford Wives (1972) by Ira Levin was adapted to film in 1975 and 2004. The novel is more of a slow burn suspense feminist novel while the '75 film shifts to a male omniscient view. The '04 remake focuses on comedy & fear of technological subversion. 🙍♀️🤖🏡 #filmsky #booksky
neutral · AI labelView post →I've been thinking about "The Stepford Wives" lately. In the film, a group of rich, privileged men were so angry at a changing world that they replaced those they blamed for the change with robots to serve their every whim w/o question. Those being replaced didn't notice until it was too late.
negative · AI labelView post →I think a lot about the Stepford Wives and how the original book and film it was clear the women were being killed an replaced with robots. That powerful, clever smart women by passively accepting the patriarchy in marrying these men, in letting them dictate their life they are killed and replaced.
negative · AI labelView post →10 horror novels to get to know me by The Haunting of Hill House Experimental Film A Head Full of Ghosts House of Leaves The Stepford Wives Beloved You Should Have Left The House Next Door Frankenstein IT
neutral · AI labelView post →The Stepford Wives comes to mind with this cheap trick of a maga mouthpiece. This is the scariest sci-fi whorer film of all times. Racist Nazis spewing lies every damn day.
negative · AI labelView post →in honor of spooky season, here’s my favs of a few horror movie genres: 🤖The Stepford Wives (1975) 🪆Dolls (1987) 👻The Others (2000) 🔪Sleepaway Camp (1983) 🎃Sleepy Hollow (1999) tell me yours, #filmsky
neutral · AI labelView post →A very special election day bonus episode for the rushed, sloppy, irritated, and alive. There are two movie adaptations of Ira Levin's The Stepford Wives, and midcentury scholar @sarcher.bsky.social came by to talk about both of them—and why this story just keeps getting more relevant.
neutral · AI labelView post →Ya know? The first time I saw this pic, I immediately thought of the movie, The Stepford Wives. Only here, it's the Stepford President, controlled by his handlers. He didn't react because he wasn't TOLD to.... Scary doo doo....but how close to the truth, with his dementia? Meanwhile. Death watches.
neutral · AI labelView post →you know, for all the robo content on the net we have really lost sight of the 1975 The Stepford Wives movie, those sclera lenses rly hit
positive · AI labelView post →"After reading a long article about Kirk in the Boston Globe I have come to the conclusion that Kirk and his followers were the kind of people who think the film "The Stepford Wives" had a happy ending." DFW at Democratic Underground
neutral · AI labelView post →The moment the film opened with this nod to The Stepford Wives, I knew Companion was going to be good (iykyk)
neutral · AI labelView post →Ira Levin (with scenes from the 1975 film adaptation of the Levin novel "The Stepford Wives") - BOTD
neutral · AI labelView post →#NowWatching 📽️💀 The Stepford Wives (1975) #frightclub
neutral · AI labelView post →People who continue to call Sinners a “horror” movie either didn’t see it or simply can’t *see* it. Yes, Coogler says he was inspired by some notable horror movies. But saying Sinners is a horror movie is like saying the Stepford Wives is merely a horror movie.
neutral · AI labelView post →For day 88 of my year long retrospective on TV Movies that need a DVD/Blu Ray release, I am going with Revenge of the Stepford Wives. This one is a satire like the original, but with a little more tongue in cheek, and a lot of great actors, with Audra Lindley stealing my heart once again!
neutral · AI labelView post →Tech Company: "At long last we have created [The Stepford Wives] from the classic sci-fi movie [The Stepford Wives]."
neutral · AI labelView post →Tues nite, #fullmoonfrights continues the celebration of my birthday month by taking a trip to Stepford! A TV movie I thought was lost, followed by the 70s classic… 8pmEST The Stepford Children (1987) YouTube 10pmEST The Stepford Wives (1975) YouTube, Tubi All Welcome! #mutantfam #horrorsky
neutral · AI labelView post →We deep cleaned the fridge so now it looks like one of those staged movie fridges you wouldn't be surprised to find in The Stepford Wives. That'll last us about a day. But at least for one day we'll know exactly where everything is.
neutral · AI labelView post →Are all his press secretaries actually Robots like the Stepford Wives movie? Perhaps unplug them?
neutral · AI labelView post →Tomorrow: we wrap up Doppelgangers and Deception with a film that has no political relevance to our current moment. None. At. All. It's THE STEPFORD WIVES (1975)
neutral · AI labelView post →HBD the charming, ravishing film actress Katharine Ross who was BOTD in 1940, turning 86 today. She was one of the great Hollywood faces of the late sixties and early seventies. She gives a spirited feminist performance in Bryan Forbes' "The Stepford Wives" (1975)
neutral · AI labelView post →“At last we have finally created the psychological conditioning of the Stepford Wives, from the famous movie, Don’t Create The Stepford Wives”
neutral · AI labelView post →Tonight's late movie is The Stepford Wives (2004) 🍿
neutral · AI labelView post →One of my dumb contrary movie opinions is that The Stepford Wives remake from 2004 is secretly a comedic success and a prophetic vision of today despite having not watched it in well over a decade and tonight I will test it by rewatching it.
positive · AI labelView post →If she was my step-daughter I'd be just about ded from pride - look at her! Intelligent, artistic, quirky, fun, principled... At some point the GOP are going to have to deal with the fact that The Stepford Wives was a dystopian horror film, not an inspirational how-to manual.
neutral · AI labelView post →Celebrating "the movie star," Tina Louise, who turns 92 today! Loved her in Gilligan's Island, of course, but also in films like Day of the Outlaw (1959), The Hangman (1959), and The Stepford Wives (1975).
neutral · AI labelView post →176. Carnival of Souls (dir. Harvey, 1962). I can't believe I forgot to include, arguably, maybe *the* defining indie horror film of the 60s; as much a foundation on modern horror's exploration of women and women's bodies as Rosemary's Baby and The Stepford Wives.
neutral · AI labelView post →Looks like this film takes place in the Stepford Wives cinematic universe .... . #FrightClub #Hive
neutral · AI labelView post →Ira Levin (with scenes from the 1975 film adaptation of the Levin novel "The Stepford Wives") - BOTD
neutral · AI labelView post →I hate all of this by the way. It's so drab, hetero, and joyless. Does anyone remember the movie, Pleasantville? Does anyone remember the Stepford Wives? As problematic as The Feminine Mystique, these ww need to read it. We have seen this all before. Next, we BURN BRAS!
neutral · AI labelView post →Bitch who loves to watch two different versions of the same film: The Stepford Wives (2004)
positive · AI labelView post →Where to find #FrightClub taking on #TheStepfordWives tonight at 10ET/9C/8M/7P/3BST! Tubi: tubitv.com/movies/50743...
neutral · AI labelView post →Good movie morning! NW: The Stepford Wives (1975) Dir: Bryan Forbes Written by: William Goldman (based on novel by Ira Levin !!!) DP: Owen Roizman !!! 📽
neutral · AI labelView post →The Stepford Wives. It was a fictional movie. Now I’m having my doubts.
neutral · AI labelView post →Why hasn't there been a Blu-Ray (or 4K, God-willing) release of the original THE STEPFORD WIVES yet??? Anyway, this movie rules.
positive · AI labelView post →Happy #LetterboxdFriday! My #LastFourWatched are: The Wizard of Oz - so funny! so pretty! Inglorious Basterds - very cathartic this week The Stepford Wives - people hate on this movie? Why? It's campy as hell Hundreds of Beavers - still the funniest thing I've seen in a long time #filmsky
positive · AI labelView post →> Why not make the internet a more friendly and inviting place? Have you heard/read about how this isn't why some folks are doing this? I suspect part of the reason for this thread is that people don't feel like those doing this are doing so to match their personality and genuinely being more polite, but more to work around corporate social media's algorithms purportedly downplaying more "crass and aggressive" language. It's not that they're offended by polite language or attempts to be…
neutral · AI labelView post →If there were ever a "you couldn't make this movie today" movie, it's "The Stepford Wives". I can see why the 2004 version ramped up the jokes. 'cos through the lens of today, it's just "Tradwives: The Movie". It's not unbelievable that men would do this, it's TOO believable.
neutral · AI labelView post →Original novel writer was Ira Levin, who created some of the greatest horror plots ever. This movie, "The Stepford Wives" and "The Boys from Brazil." #Svengoolie #HouseOfSvengoolie #RosemarysBaby
neutral · AI labelView post →On a completely unrelated note, "The Stepford Wives" by Ira Levin got a Japanese translation in 1974 but the 1975 film adaptation was never shown in Japan. It only got a DVD version when the 2004 remake with Nicole Kidman was released. mainichi.jp/english/arti...
neutral · AI labelView post →Happy 88th Birthday to the lovely and unsung Paula Prentiss, Emmy-nominated film & television actress, famous for roles in films like WHERE THE BOYS ARE, IN HARM'S WAY, CATCH-22, THE PARALLAX VIEW, THE STEPFORD WIVES, and TV shows including HE & SHE, BURKE'S LAW, and more.
neutral · AI labelView post →#nowwatching The Stepford Wives (1975). I was under the impression I'd seen this film, but on watching it I definitely haven't. How is that possible? #horrorsky
neutral · AI labelView post →#SeptemberMovieChallenge #Moviesky #Filmsky Day 6 - Grocery Store in a Movie The Stepford Wives (1975) Bryan Forbes
neutral · AI labelView post →In Feb 2025, Bryan Forbes' THE STEPFORD WIVES turned 50 - a brilliant #horror film whose power may only have increased with the rise of AI - & so many moments are strikingly prescient. Here we talk about all the good things about the film #StepfordWives www.horrorhomeroom.com/smoking-drin...
neutral · AI labelView post →Is she in remake of the Stepford Wives? That vacant smile is straight out of the movie.
neutral · AI labelView post →🎬 Just Watched The Stepford Wives (2004) After the classic 1975 film, this is a must-see! Funny, satirical, stellar performances by Bette Midler, Glenn Close, Christopher Walken, Matthew Broderick, Nicole Kidman. Critics were cruel but I am still laughing. 5⭐! #stepfordwives #cultclassics
positive · AI labelView post →I’m not normally one to say a film should be remade- but in the current climate I think we need a third cinematic take on The Stepford Wives
neutral · AI labelView post →7 minutes into the Stepford Wives remake and boy does this movie hate women! Every single one has been an in your face girl power ballbuster caricature. And oh good the guy just said to kill all women 🙃
negative · AI labelView post →@nberlat.bsky.social wrote a great piece about THE STEPFORD WIVES. That book and movie were the inspirations for a book I'm querying. I imagine they'll be lots more about STEPFORD considering the current state of the world. www.damemagazine.com/2025/02/19/p...
neutral · AI labelView post →A movie was already made about this…The Stepford Wives…and it ended badly for the men.
neutral · AI labelView post →Oh, goody, now The Stepford Wives can be a reality😭 Note: If you decide to watch the movie go for the original 1975 horror-thriller or check out the movie Don't Worry, Darling which is basically the same story but with different characters and setting.
neutral · AI labelView post →Watched the original version of The Stepford Wives with @riciehmon.bsky.social and it was a pretty creepy film. Here's a review/reactionary thoughts to it: boxd.it/7XwbAP
positive · AI labelView post →Yeah! Creepy isn't it? It's not a cult tho 🤔😂 Reminds me of that movie "The Stepford Wives"
neutral · AI labelView post →There is a bit in William Goldman's book where he complains about the Stepford Wives movie (for which he wrote the screenplay) where the Wives are dressed as 1950s Housewives instead as Playboy bunnies and it's funny how much he misread the kind of guy who would have a Stepford Wife.
neutral · AI labelView post →140. The Stepford Wives (1975) #filmsky #movies #film #horrorsky #Horror365Challenge
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