Jordan Peele has repeatedly named The Stepford Wives as a template: a polite, wealthy suburb whose smiling residents hide a procedure that turns people into vessels. He described Get Out as doing for race what Stepford did for gender.
Film· 1975· Horror
The Stepford Wives
by Bryan Forbes
The Stepford Wives: 2 recorded works trace back to it, and it draws on 1 recorded source.
What The Stepford Wives influenced
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Edgar Wright named The Stepford Wives and Invasion of the Body Snatchers among the films behind The World's End: a home town whose people have been quietly replaced by smiling, compliant copies.
What influenced The Stepford Wives
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Bryan Forbes's film adapts Ira Levin's novel about a woman who moves to a Connecticut suburb where the wives are unnervingly docile, and discovers what the men's association has done to them.