The Most Terrifying Movie. EVER.

So Halloween is around the corner, and yesterday afternoon I thought it might be fun to watch a scary movie (normally I watch most scary movies in the afternoon, it's a trick I learned from my grandmother.)

My choice was The Stepford Wives (1975 version of course). Here's the trailor:


*Spoiler Alert*

So, after all that...do you know how this movie ends? With Joanna's (Katharine Ross) worst fears realized: Despite her desperate and frantic attempts to save herself from an intellectual (and actually literal) death, she fails and in the end turns into a Stepford Wife with enhanced boobs and an overwhelming urge to bake.

So the men win and all the women in Stepford are effectively replaced with Ajax-scrubbing automatons. In fact, in the Epilogue, you see the next victim, a newcomer to Stepford, and you know that this horrific process will continue. There is no redemption or any victory at all for the women. They just become slaves.

What the hell kind of story is that?

I guess I always assumed that somehow Katharine Ross saved herself and the rest of the women and after getting some magic powers from a sacred edition of The Feminine Mystique...or something, anything but to lose her identity and forever be a slave to her husband.

Le Sigh.

I'm taking recommendations for Halloween movies. Let me know your favorite.